 So I'm Sabine Duchamp. I'm working for the Alliance Biodiversity SIEHT. I was coordinating the forage program in Asia. And now I'm a coordinator of the Li-Chan project. So most of you know our Li-Chan project very well. I will just make a very short recap. So the project started in 2019 with preliminary assessments and stakeholder consultations. And of 2019, we finalized our proposal and work plan. And next slide please. Thank you. And we decided that we would aim at stimulating system transformation, livelihoods, environments, equity and market access to empower highland farming communities, through abundant, life-sub-based interventions in northwest Vietnam. So the project adopted a system and landscape approach focusing on multiple livestock species, working closely with communities and particularly ethnic minorities. And this contributes to Vietnam's livestock development plans for the region. So it is implemented by the Alliance Biodiversity SIEHT, Hillary, SLU, Niasz and IVR, Nomasi, the Department of Agriculture of Son La and People's Committee of My Son District. Next slide please. So in 2020, we started with baseline survey and village typology. Three systems were identified with respect to their accessibility. So we have remote extensive systems in the high altitudes with low access to market, fragile environment, mainly among ethnic minorities. We have in the mid-altitudes some mixed livestock system, mainly Thai ethnic minorities. And in the lowlands, we have more intense systems with good access to markets and a better capacity for innovation. So finally, in September 2020, a bit more than a year ago, we first engaged with six villages of Chengchung and Chengluang province. Sorry, Chengchung and Chengluang communes. We have Mon 1 and Mon 2 in the lowlands. We have Kua and Ouy with intermediate accessibility. And we have Buong Kuan and Samta in the remote islands. Next slide please. So training, awareness raising and piloting were then carried out on five complementary thematics. Animal genetics, animal health, feats and forages, livestock and environment and livestock and livelihoods. So while doing so, we did our best to take into account the effects that an intervention can have on one dimension. The intervention on one dimension can have on the other dimensions. And it's not about bringing in a technology blindly. Next slide please. So here I would like to take my favorite metaphor. This is the motorbike helmet. So system characteristics and cultural values must be taken into account. Otherwise, the new technologies can result in ill-fitting. Next slide please. So with LeChan, we have worked closely with communities building on their creativity and adaptation skills. So this is what we try to do with LeChan. So I will now give the floor to my colleagues for some more details on activities and on achievements and learnings. Thank you very much. Come on. So I think the next one is Ms. Huyen. Hello everyone. I am Huyen, the director of LeChan University. I have attended a group of experts. I would like to change my group to be more specific. Some of the things I would like to talk about in the time I have been working on this project. Next slide please. So based on the results we have achieved in terms of cost-effectiveness, the demand for training, and the traditional way of the year 2019, we have built a series of training courses, including the selection of beef and beef. And then we focus on the training courses for the development of the beef and the development of the beef. The training courses are similar. So the participation of these training courses is very diverse and diverse. For example, the selection of beef and beef is mainly a group of people. The number of staff members and the training courses are more technical than the number of staff members. So mainly the number of staff members is more than the number of staff members and the number of staff members. Also, the people who work in the field of farming. So for our goals, we have come to the table to organize the training courses for the development of the beef and beef, and the participation of those who work in the field of farming is the same, for example, for training courses, we have come to 44 percent. And the participation of the women also corresponds to the number of training courses that can reach 50 percent. The age of training courses from 20 to 40 years old, in the last 30-40 years. We have seen that there are initiatives that have been carried out by the Ministry of Finance. We have the importance of the local government and the development of agriculture, as well as all the activities to continue supporting the people in the future for the next few years. The result is that we have seen the early steps of the activities in agriculture in the region. After the exercise, we have the support of the activities in the rural areas. We have the importance of the people as well as the ability to use the artificial intelligence on the floor and on the floor, especially on the floor, after the exercise. For example, the people, we see that they are more concerned about the same tasks and choices and have more people to implement the artificial intelligence, especially on the floor. In the past, there were people who performed the artificial intelligence on the live and the outside, but very few people performed on the floor and there are still many left. But after the exercise, also the support after the exercise, the number of people confident and the artificial intelligence on the floor has increased. And some of the organizations have been concerned about the artificial intelligence on the floor. For example, in the present, there is only one person in the Central Government to perform the artificial intelligence on the floor. But now, for example, in Thuy Sa, where Mr. Cui and Mrs. Thu are very eager to be concerned about the artificial intelligence on the floor. Let's move on. And the lessons that we have learned in the process of performing the artificial intelligence on the floor, that is, we see that the development of the artificial intelligence has a very good impact. The farmers have learned from the farmers they have learned from the success and failure in the operation and implementation. Because the people are important to understand who are the people who start using the technology. And what is the result of the success and failure? And so they have more faith and more fear to use the technology that I am talking about the artificial intelligence and the artificial intelligence. And we realize that the artificial intelligence has a very important role in the support of farmers. They are the role of the farmers in the transfer of knowledge into the field. For example, a lot of knowledge has been transferred to the farmers but when there is a problem the people are looking for the artificial intelligence that is the artificial intelligence so that they can answer the questions, ask the questions and from there the artificial intelligence asks the experts to see to recognize the answer or the direction for the farmers and one more thing we realize is that women are very excited and motivated to participate in the same operation. This needs to be encouraged because women are very motivated and we hope that the success and participation of these women will affect women's dreams and so the female intelligence to participate in the research and development of the technology will be expanded. Next slide. So some of the results we see is the combination between the artificial intelligence and the artificial intelligence especially the artificial intelligence in the middle of the environment has attracted a large number of people and other participants to the artificial intelligence that they do not feel that it is difficult to understand because it can be rational and it may be difficult but when the artificial intelligence is directly implemented and there are the following questions and so they have the confidence and continue to find the technology in the artificial intelligence and we also realize that the success models after the artificial intelligence are highly recommended by the people and the artificial intelligence in terms of the use of the artificial intelligence after that for the people in the artificial intelligence the more they learn and the more they practice they increase the attention increase the understanding and they realize the technology they understand more and this is the motivation for them to use the artificial intelligence to understand the results of the artificial intelligence I would like to explain the following first of all I would like to take this opportunity to thank the NIVR team for their hard work and now I will be briefly talking about animal husband flagship activities next slide so our major achievement are to organize various interventions for farmers and animal husband professionals local vets as well as to sell at the demonstration farms the first of all we organized two training for farmers which were conducted in October 2020 and January 2021 so more than 100 participants had attended the workshops the main contents were to instruct the importance of biosecurity farm management visitor control how to spray disinfectant properly animal quarantine and use of vaccine antibiotics etc we also organized training for animal husband professionals in December 2020 and July 2021 especially the second one was focusing on lump skin disease which is the new emerging pathogen in ruminants in Asia including Vietnam the fortunately vaccine is available which is much easier for disease control and prevention than African sun fever the main contents were the introduction of diseases by species and outbreak investigations miscommunication disease control and prevention etc currently we are conducting practical intervention for 15 demonetized farms from six villages so basically those farms are selected based on survey which are willing to invest more money for their livestock as well as to to change their behavior for better productivity so our team is providing technical and practical consultation on farm renovation biosecurity farm management as well as to provide free vaccines such as food and mouse disease classical sun fever and Newcastle disease etc and some vitamins and mineral stones for livestock so we also ask the farmers to weekly record an event in their livestock in the diary such as importing new animals clinical signs newborn deaths and vaccination date etc so our team still contact them every two weeks by phone so this information is useful for farm management this is monitoring surveillance and control prevention measures the next slide please so each training we conducted before and after cap survey to evaluate the improvement of their Norwegian attitude I did not put various descriptive statistics but as you can see Norwegian farmers have slightly increased for the first training 7.33 to 8.16 8.16 and second training 8.53 to 9.47 especially a total of 61 people had received training twice roughly 60% so we found that their knowledge increase are slightly better compared to farmers who got only one training 4 demonstration farms as you can see some pictures on the bottom some farmers already built a new pen for pigs based on our consultation which is helpful for bio-security and farm management as I mentioned earlier we distributed livestock diaries please see the picture on the right side if we find any serious outbreaks or events in those farms we will contact village vets and local authority for outbreak investigation and proper interventions in a timely manner since we are collecting farm information and from a long-term perspective these indicators can be used for project monitoring and evaluation so we also share this livestock diary with other flagships so how to capture more information what they need next slide please so we think that it is very important to keep a partnership and collaboration with local authorities for project sustainability so these are the ones who can support veterinary services outbreak investigation pre-vaccine implementation of disease control and prevention in the community in addition the more community engagement is cruel for project sustainability as I mentioned a total of 15 demonstration farms were selected and we expect that other farms can learn by watching and experience from them so our project can be scaled up in the future so actually some farmers started implementing vaccination visitor control use of disinfectant purchasing mineral stones etc so it is very encouraging that farmers whose main source of income is still crop, corn and rice etc in Lichang but now they are considering livestock as their main source of income so I think that is very positive impact in addition more training is necessary for any more professional in the village level so their local farmers can get better accessibility to high quality veterinary services lastly I would say that we need to generate more evidence and tools to support disease making such as developing risk maps and disease modeling through epidemiological investigation so those tools can be useful for providing cost-effective and evidence-based control and prevention strategies in the community the next slide so that's all from my side thank you hi everyone I hope you can all hear me my name is Mary Atyano I work for the Alliance of Biodiversity International and SEAT based in Hanoi and I'm the Feeds and Forages focal point for Vietnam priority country project so today I'm going to present a summary of the results and achievements under the Feeds and Forages flagship next slide please so for Feeds and Forages we started the year before in 2020 and also in 2019 with a rapid assessment of looking at the availability and use of local feed resources identifying challenges and constraints opportunities for improved animal nutrition as well as this enabled us to propose context-specific feed-related interventions for the three typologies or the six villages located in the study area so the main interventions that were proposed to the livestock farmers in my son district included improved forages so different forage varieties including grasses and legumes different techniques, different trainings on animal nutrition techniques and for the improved forages we provided seeds and planting materials to different farmers who had selected who chose the varieties that were interested in growing on their farms for feeding their livestock and out of this activity so far we've managed to reach and work with more than 155 households who are currently growing different varieties and even though we just started implementation this year we already reporting an increased average area grown with forages and as indicated on the slide across different typologies or villages we are seeing farmers having increased from as little as 0.01 hectares to four or five or six times more of what they had initially where most of the farmers were growing local Napier varieties and now they have different grasses and also legumes which they are feeding to their livestock and earlier this year as well we had trainings on different feed techniques and this was divided into cattle and buffalo feed techniques as well as different animal nutrition methods for the local pig breeds in Mison these trainings attracted around 180 households in the six villages and it involved theoretical introduction to the proposed techniques as well as practical demonstrations on different feed processing and preservation methods such as preparing silage how to treat rice straw that's urea treated rice straw how to mix different feeds feeding regimes for different age groups for both cattle and pigs and also feed fermentation using probiotics for pigs which is also a good alternative to the local method of preparing pig feed which is usually cooking of mostly food waste and the third achievement we've seen so far in the feeds and forages front is that there's been a strong stakeholder engagement and this has really ensured successful implementation of our activities we have worked with the local institutions such as the National Institute of Animal Sciences helped with the trainings on animal nutrition as well we've had village chiefs enthusiastic or champion farmers also helping with trainings providing materials distributing materials to farmers and also taking the lead in trial monitoring for the households that are growing forages on their farms next slide please so the learnings we've reported so far is even though the farmers have just started harvesting and using the different forage varieties that they selected and were provided with is that farmers have already reporting a high preference for three grass varieties which have a high germination rate high germination rate biomass and palatability and moderate preference for forage legumes as well as mulatto where some farmers reported that their cattle or rather their livestock had some digestion related issues and this had to do with the cutting time and feed preparation for these different feed materials another learning we have reported is due to the COVID-19 restrictions we've not had enough chances or follow-ups to guide the farmers on how best to manage and utilize different forages and also in applying different feed techniques however using farmers feedback as well as knowledge from the technical team we've been able to prepare some forage fact sheets and these materials have been distributed to farmers and hopefully will help them will help to guide them on different areas of interest whether they express some concerns such as appropriate cutting time how to mix feed and how to generally use different feed materials and feed methods techniques another interesting learning we reported was that we maintained a gender balance for all the flagship activities be it from the initial assessment trainings and also subsequent forage trials and this has seen more female farmers actively participating in trainings and also in different in other activities as well for example the trainings for introducing the forages and also for animal nutrition we had at least 48% attendance from female household members next slide please so the implications and also more like a way forward that we would propose is that so far we can see this potential for adoption of high yielding and high quality forages and also feed techniques to improve livestock production in this area as most of the small livestock farmers have mainly been relying on low quality forages and use of crop residues which hasn't been optimum enough to improve livestock production also preliminary results have reported high yields from the forages that have been taken by the farmers and the farmers have also reported increased feed availability for their livestock from these crops however it's still early in the project to really evaluate the impact of the feed interventions on livestock productivity savings on labour and time and also changes to household income but we are hoping that in future we would be able to evaluate the impact indicators and see how best this interventions that are proposed are able to improve livestock production in this area one of the main challenges that was reported during the initial assessment is that the main feed related challenge in this area is winter feed shortage and monitoring the ongoing forage trials and adoption of feed techniques in the upcoming winter season will enable us to inform changes to the feed basket due to these interventions as we started at the beginning of this year and the winter season is just coming up in the next few months it would be interesting to see if really these you know interventions have been able to address to a certain extent this challenge of winter feed shortage also as my colleagues have also mentioned this is the role of stakeholders capacity development would be a key would be key in ensuring continuity availability of material say for seed so strengthening seed systems in the area knowledge exchange between different stakeholders and also this would be a good driver for scaling different interventions not only feed but also other interventions or project components in this area and beyond thanks that's all from my side can we do the next slide my name is Emmanuel Muema and I'm coordinating clean application in my son let's look at the livestock and environment aspect next slide please so from the baseline assessment that we did we find that there is limited or very few nitrogen addition to the soil despite continuous cultivation practices in almost all the systems and also we find that we have more erosion especially in farms that are located in upland area or region we also did nitrogen balances and from the assessment we see that the remote farms are mainly having negative balances due to residue burning and also limited use of fertilizer inputs however we have some farms like Monwan, Ori and Coa which have substantial mineral fertilizer that has kept their farms to have a positive nitrogen balance we also see a contribution of organic fertilizer to be very low and also biomecycling in most cases next slide please so what are we recommending from our study we recommend proper manual management production and use of improved forages across the systems we also recognize that improved forages can minimize water loss through evapotranspiration because they mature more faster than the inherent crops also to the farms that are located in upland areas or highland areas we encourage a use of cover crops and control farming so that we can prevent soil erosion activities and also retain improved soil water retention another thing on the nutrient balances we encourage recycling of organic matter and also prevention of residue burning in our systems next slide please so far the key achievements have been to quantify the environmental footprints of the different systems and also the nitrogen flows and recycling important is also we have done some trainings on erosion control measures soil fertility and biomecycling as well as crop residue composting and animal manure next slide so thank you so much that is the environment and flagship project next presenter yeah good morning good afternoon everyone can you hear me well my name is Tink Nguyen I'm a local focal point of livestock and on behalf of the team I would like to present some highlights from our flagship next slide please yeah regarding the key achievements first we conducted a market study the study was to provide insights into ventilations of pigs and cattle and also to suggest intervention for ventilating improvements next please the study found out production of pigs and cattle in the 30 areas were mostly a small scale and farmers faced quite a lot of constraints particularly regarding to breathing practice, financial resources easy control marketing and also the animal feed and there were weak linkages among Valetian items farmers seem to have low bargaining powers so based on those fighting to overcome those constraint collective actions were recommended based on the fighting we came up with the facilitation of the formation of farmer common interest groups or CIGs in short name the purpose of the CIGs was to promote the value of group working and also to have farmers better access to a lifestyle policies and support because those policy supports are more likely to prioritize farmer groups rather than individual households under this activity we organized a series of trainings next slide please next please under this training we organized a series of under this activity we organized a series of trainings we also supported the formation and operation of five common interest group in the six targeted villages and in the early September 5 CIGs were officially launched with almost 60 household beneficiaries and next please so what we have learned from these activities first the appropriate approach is very important for the success of CIG formation so instead of approaching a large number of villagers who show interest in CIGs we selected each village three to five most active or most enthusiastic farmers this farmer acted as chain agents who would make spillover effects to other farmers in the communities after deeply understanding and involving in CIG activities this farmer were invited for intensive training and later become calm members of CIG at each village and the second learning is that the integration with other flagship is very important to lay a good foundation for the establishment of CIGs as mentioned in the previous slide that farmers in the study areas face quite a lot of constraint regarding breeding practice animal feed disease control and so on so other friendships such as genetics animal health, feed and forage have organized quite a lot of trainings and intervention to solve those constraints and this efforts provided great input for our work on CIG later the most farmers who are members of CIG have been participated in those training and intervention so later when joining CIG they can use the knowledge and skills gained from those training from those intervention in developing production plan of the group and this one please and to certain the operation of CIG in the future first building is very important because especially for their self managing and developing CIG in the future experience from farmer group model developed by other development projects so thus the common interest groups later they can upgrade themselves to become cooperative in the future and the next one is development of linkage among CIG in different villages are very important for knowledge sharing and also for potential common activities and the last one that the involvement of local authorities is very crucial for the sustainability of CIG in the future especially when the project withdraw from the ground and thus there's some updates from the last CIG thank you so much for your attention this one please who is presenting this one right Hello everyone today I would like to talk about the concept of image and in this room we have all of you 20 of you right? and you are very familiar with this concept the concept of image is a concept of CIG and in I will use the project as a tool for everyone to discuss about the issues in that project in the project in the last year and I have sent 20 images for 18 villagers and 2 local authorities and everyone who is COTOBOY in this room right? Yes, I heard that there are 20 people in COTOBOY now so everyone can remember that COTOBOY project started from the first floor and I sent these images and then I took the images of the images from Trang Nguoi and my life and then I had the opportunity to sit together and look at the images and choose the images that I want to talk about that project in that project if I see any information I will meet the people in the project and I will continue to ask and in June I had an interview about the use of images and the story and then after that I had a meeting with each other but because of the COVID when the COVID spread I didn't have the chance to meet 30 people I also tried to meet about 10 people to talk about the story and the images about the result of the project one of the results that I have today is the the story about the stories and the images of the people in Trang Nguoi are being presented by the Viet Nam Ministry at the end of this afternoon and tomorrow we will have a meeting and the reason why the project uses the use of images is a way to evaluate the use of images in the project and the stories of the images is a way to communicate when participating do you agree? about this there are many in the project and about the story I can also hear you sharing that you feel very happy because when you are taken by the images talking about the images talking about the real and you also feel very happy when you are taken by the images and the result of this project it will be a way to review it when you take the images and the stories of the people in the project you don't have to work you can just take them down and go to the interview when you are taken you only know a bit you only know the story and also the story of the people in the project and also the story of the project the people in the project can talk about the story and talk about the experience of the project and not the story and the pictures I will also talk a little bit about the products that are being produced in the community. I will use those steps to deal with the problems in the community. Yesterday, I talked to the people in the scene. What are they doing? What are they doing here? What are they doing here? Anything else than before? Apart from that, I also talked to the people in the scene. When I talked to the people in the scene, and there are people who have a different opinion, they can all share their opinions. The first thing is that it is normal for the previous case, we also have a lot of complaints, but in those cases, only the people in the scene do the questions. In these cases, it is the people in the scene, the people in the crowd, the people in the scene who share their opinions, And I also want to share some information with you. When you participate in the event, you will be able to see how effective it is. For example, Mr. Duong Van Niu, a friend of mine, Mr. Sabin, can you go back to the previous slide? On the screen, you will see a picture of Mr. Trong's husband. This picture is of Mr. Tung Truc. Mr. Trong and his wife are taking care of each other. One side is green and the other is green. The other side is green and the other is green. This picture is of Mr. Van Niu. Mr. Trong and his wife are taking care of each other. In the past, there were still many people who were worried about the size of the baby. The baby was too big and the mother-in-law couldn't stand it. But in the past, there were a lot of success. The baby was born twice a month. However, the baby was too big and the mother-in-law couldn't stand it. The baby was too big and the mother-in-law couldn't stand it. In the past, there were many people who were worried about the size of the baby. On the other side is a picture of Mr. Trong and his wife. In this picture, there was a picture of Mr. Trong. When asked about the most meaningful story of the story, Mr. Li and I took a picture. He said, this is the picture because he was very happy to be asked about the new things and ask about the experiences. In the picture, Mr. Trong and I were also asked about the experiences of Mr. Trong and his wife. Mr. Trong and his wife were taken to the hospital. They were taken to the hospital. Mr. Trong had to carry all the protective equipment. Mr. Trong was also taught about the baby's health. Next slide please. After 2 months, do you know how many pictures we took? We all took 5,000 pictures. We took 5,000 pictures and took 170 pictures. In the picture, there were 169 pictures that were selected and they also felt confident. When they participated in the analysis and analysis of the project, there was a comment from a friend of mine who said, when the baby was taken to the hospital, he was happy to see the pictures. Mr. A-M-O-N-O-M, so this is the way to take this picture. It is a straight-forward method and a way to participate in the analysis and analysis of the project. Thank you. Is Jim here for this presentation? Yes, I am. Oh, super Jim, okay. Thank you. Good afternoon to the colleagues in Vietnam. Good morning to those who are in Africa or Europe. My name is Jim Hammond. I am a scientist working for ILRI. The activity I will tell you about was not planned at the start of this project. It was in response to the coronavirus pandemic and as you all will know, all across the world governments tried to contain the virus. So we conducted a study in the project area to understand how these containment measures affected the farmers with whom we were working. Next slide please. In September of 2020, nine months or so after the coronavirus pandemic really began, a survey was carried out in Maishan in the intervention villages with approximately 300 farmers. In the photo you can see a farmer being interviewed. This was in the early days when not too much was known about the effects of the disease and also the effects on the livelihoods. So we produced some nice infographic documents, short summary two-page documents, both in Vietnamese language and English, showing accessible charts and figures. I hope that many people have had a chance to look at these documents and perhaps over the course of the meeting they can be shared, even the hard copy provided in Son La to the meeting in Son La because I think it is important to understand the effects. In fact, building on the work we did with Le Chan, we repeated a similar study in six other countries in Africa and another location in Vietnam. We produced a manuscript summarizing all the findings. Next page, please. Next slide. What did we find out? Well, the impacts on the farmers were severe. Almost 70% of the households lost income compared to usual and that was through decreased income from selling their produce. It was more difficult to sell produce and the prices obtained for sales were lower. They were lower than usual for all the different products generally. Also, opportunities for working off the farm were less than usual. There was less cash paid work to be done and travelling to access it was also difficult. Both farm income and off farm income were reduced and about 70% of people experienced this. Also, due to lower amounts of cash available in the household and difficulty obtaining food from markets, a lot of people had to eat less food. So, 40% of the households ate less food than usual and 60% of the households ate less diverse food as usual. Perhaps they ate less meat or vegetables or expensive food. But on the plus side, the measures were very successful in reducing the spread of coronavirus. So, in fact, during the survey, no respondents knew of anybody who had suffered from coronavirus. There was no disease but the trade-off was the food security and economic impacts were high. We did see one of the most popular coping strategies was to sell livestock, especially chicken and pigs. So, that underlines the importance of the work Lee Chan is doing with those animals. There was also evidence that poorer households recovered slower. So, the survey we conducted was in September of 2020 and the most severe restrictions were during April and May. So, we asked households, you know, what was the impact during the worst time and then had they recovered six months later and households who'd had most severe impacts were less likely to recover. So, there was evidence that households were not bouncing back, farmers were not bouncing back quickly. You know, we are one year later now, we're towards the end of 2021 and we should monitor whether these effects are still going on and if they can be supported, if the recovery can be supported. Next slide please. So, what are the implications and significance of this? Well, the food security and income disruptions were serious. They ought to be addressed and it was not only in Vietnam. So, we, as I said, we carried out this study in six other countries and also in Tainuian province of Vietnam. So, a similar effect was seen in East Africa, Southern Africa as well as Vietnam where income disruptions, sale of agricultural produce, purchase of foodstuffs all were disrupted to a lesser or greater degree. So, based on this, we recommend a few actions. Teared mobility restrictions, we travel allowed for economic reasons to keep the rural economies moving. Now, short-term price guarantee schemes are probably underwritten by this state in order to stabilize the food system. So, that means sale of agricultural produce, a minimum sale price and when it comes to purchasing foods, a maximum threshold for sale prices. Now, that's not easy to implement but it would, in my opinion, be the strongest measure to reduce the food security and economic impacts due to the coronavirus restrictions. Direct aid would be important in locations where incomes were severely disrupted and the farmers have had to use all their assets in order to continue to survive. And finally, the distribution of agricultural inputs such as fertilizers, pesticides if needed and livestock medicines and vaccines. Yep, that's the summary. So, thank you for listening and over to you.