Funded by the UK ’s Department for International Development (DFID)and USAID’s SANREM project, “Poverty Alleviation and Forests in Vietnam ”provides useful guidelines on how future research into forests and livelihoods can best be used to improve national poverty alleviation programs.

Dr. William Sunderlin from the Center for International Forestry Research and co-author with Huynh Thu Ba said the book launch and its accompanying discussion were held at just the right time. “The event went very well. The book is timely because it can serve as a resource for the process – recently begun – of bringing forest sector concerns formally into the national poverty alleviation planning process,” Dr. Sunderlin said.