Forest restoration including agro-forestry in Central Highlands of Vietnam – Tran Huu Nghi (Tropenbos Vietnam)

In Vietnam, since the 1990s, priority has been given to forest plantations using imported, fast-growing species. They serve an economic purpose in the short term but could harm biodiversity conservation in the long term, as observed in South Africa. This question could arise in France, if plantations were done on a large scale and using a single clone (as in Vietnam). Tran Huu Nghi’s presentation leads us to reflect on the possibilities offered by agroforestry, which is practiced in an ancestral manner in this country and which is envisaged as a scenario for the partial evolution of forest plantations in the framework of Plantaclim project.