National Institute of Animal Science (NIAS)
Vietnam

Description: NIAS (Vietnam) was established in 1952 under Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development with a mandate for: planning and designing national research programs (both short term and long term) in animal science; implementation and management of approved national research programs, undertaking studies on animal breeding and genetics; undertaking studies on economics, livestock environment and farming systems; doing transferring innovations of livestock production to the farms; undertaking studies on animal feed, nutrition and related issues. NIAS also has been provided status for training researchers to PhD level. NIAS has strong international collaboration with many institutions and organisation such as ILRI, CIRAD, CIAT, etc. As NIAS is responsible for doing research in animal production, it is a research partner with all agricultural Universities and DARD of all provinces in the whole country.
The working group of the Livestock System and Environment Research Department has been working in different national and international projects on the rural development, especially in mountainous regions, on livestock- Agro-Eco Forest research and intervention as well as on developing livestock value chains and market for household farms.

Official contact:

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Le Thi Thanh Huyen
Head of Livestock System and Environment Research Department
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Staff members involved: Dinh Khanh Thuy and Nguyen Thanh Trung

Working Packages: WP3-Analysis, comparison and modelling of ISDH

Category: Third-Country-party

Links:

• Website: https://vcn.org.vn/