Policy carries its important role for and impact on production and livings of the rural population. For this reason, the government of Vietnam has introduced a number of policies and strategies with main aim at reducing poverty and promoting the rural development. In the course of this progress, much achievement has been gained. Particularly, Vietnam has been one of the most successful in poverty reduction - reduced from 58 percent in 1993 to 18 percent in 2007, and increased per capita income at 2,7 times in the year of 2007 as compared to the 2000 as confirmed by prime minister Nguyen Sinh Hung.

Despite that, the efficiency of policy intervention, less or more, has not yet met the stated expectations as well as the rural population’s needs, resulting in negative influence on the socio-economic aspects of the rural sector and rural population.

Emerged from this practice, The Centre for Rural Development in Central, Vietnam (CRD) and The project on Research Cooperation for Sustainable Rural Development in Vietnam (RDViet) - Hue University's College of Agriculture and Forestry (HUAF) decided to join our efforts in organizing in Hue city, Vietnam a workshop on “Dialogue between policy makers and research & development workers on Agriculture, Farmers and Rural Development”. This workshop would help to build a bridge and forum between policy makers at different levels and researchers and development workers, within which they can share and discuss information, experiences, and issues related to formation, implementation and impact of policy on agriculture, farmers and rural development.

The objectives of the workshop were presenting the outlook and orientation on Agriculture, Farmers and Rural Development, providing with information on practical implementation and impact of the related policies on production and livings of rural population, discussing the possible solutions for quality improvement of formation and implementation of the policy “Tam Nong” in future.  

The workshop was organized in combination of oral presentation and group discussions with focus on three main contents: practical implementation and impact of the policies on agriculture, farmers and rural sector; strategies and orientation of the government on the “Tam Nong” and the needs for policy improvement for promotion of rural development in future; possible solutions for improved quality of policy formation and improved effeciency of policy implementation on “Tam Nong”.

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