Women and Land Titling in Vietnam
The World Bank supports a Land Tenure Certificates project to re-issue titles with spaces for the names of both, husband and wife. These titles allow women to have equal access to credit in order to start a small business or scale up to more productive agriculture. In fact, women’s legal status, such as their right to own land, can become a gateway out of poverty. The project added women's names to 35,000 land title certificates in two years. The project was conducted along a national & local information dissemination campaign to raise awareness, as well as to help the Government to issue guidance on providing these joint titles nationwide.
Rural development and agriculture in Vietnam

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China Loess Plateau Watershed Rehabilitation
The Loess Plateau region in China is home to more than 50 million mostly poor farmers. Centuries of land overuse in these arid region have led to massive environmental degradation and widespread poverty. In 1994 the World Bank funded a conservation project which improved the local environment, but also boosted the livelihoods of more than 1 million farmers - poverty in the region dropped from 59 percent in 1993 to 27 percent in 2001 and almost 3,000 square kilometers of eroded land was terraced.
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Rural Development and Agriculture in China

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Vietnam Northern Mountains Poverty Reduction
The project aims to ensure that  poor villagers in the region profit from improved, sustainable infrastructure and social services within an improved institutional capacity in the upland communes and districts. The project will focus on  community participation, development of rural transport, and market networks to this end. New, upgraded roads will be provided and additionally, facilities for rural markets will be financed. Capacity building will be provided to support the Ministry of Transport and local authorities.
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Rural Development and Agriculture in Vietnam

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Avian Flu (AF) and Vietnam
Avian Flu was rapidly reaching pandemic levels in Vietnam, the hardest hit country in the region with 57 out of 64 provinces reporting outbreaks. As a result, over 50 million birds were culled and there were no reported outbreaks among birds since December and none among humans since November 2005. Monitoring and community awareness through mass media and local organizations are largely responsible for this trend. While a major vaccination campaign hopes to protect existing poultry stock, keeping the virus under control requires continued campaigns and training programs.
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Avian Flu Country Program

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