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Since 2013, IDH has started implementing a sustainable landscape program in Vietnam. Coffee
gardens are now supported to build a model of “landscape” in the direction of ecology, sustainability,
combined with tourism. “Landscape coffee” integrated with multi-values, with three harmonious
ecological floors, always open to welcome visitors, including: i) high tree floors including fruit trees,
pepper trees, windbreak trees, shade trees. sunshine, catch dew, help regulate garden temperature;
ii) middle floor for coffee trees; and iii) the lowest layer is for growing vegetation.

4.6.2. Model development
This model has gone through the process of formation and development in many different stages
such as:
• Model building (2016–2018): including private sector and IDH, deployed in 65 communes, 15
districts with the model of individual households and 11,000 farmers received training.
• Landscape transformation (2018–2020): including Public, Private, Farmers and IDH, deployed in
09 communes in 05 districts in two provinces of Lam Dong and Dak Lak (Krong Nang, Di Linh,
Lac Duong, Krong Anna, Bao Lam), regional management with 20,000 farmers receiving direct
training and 80,000 farmers receiving indirect training.
• In early 2019, three VSA pilot models, also known as Production, Protection & Inclusion Compact
(PPI Compact) were implemented in two provinces: Dak Lak and Lam Dong. In Krong Nang
district, Dak Lak province collaborated with IDH to launch a pilot model to become a confirmed
large-scale coffee material area on an area of 5,200 hectares with 4,000 farming households in
three areas: Ea Tan, Ea Toh and Dlie Ya communes. In Di Linh district, Lam Dong, IDH also
implemented a pilot on an area of 2,700 hectares with 1,200 farmer households in Tan Nghia
commune. In addition, in Lac Duong district, Lam Dong province, PPI Compact is being built
and will be implemented in 7 years, from 2019 to 2025, it is expected to pilot in 2 communes
(Dung Kno commune, Da Chais commune).

In addition to continuing to expand the area of VSA model in the Central Highlands (by 2025,
the area of coffee agricultural products will be expanded to 150,000 hectares in three districts of Di
Linh, Lac Duong and Krong Nang), IDH expects VSA will continue to expand to two new areas in the
Mekong Delta region to have 5 certified sustainable landscape areas completed by 2025.
The biggest advantage of this program is that it has mobilized the collective action of many actors
in the coffee value chain in the Central Highlands, including:
• Central and local governments include the Plant Protection Department, the Crop Production
Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, and the Provincial
and District People’s Committees. These organizations have the following roles: (1) Create a
favorable legal environment for the implementation of the Program; (2) Invest in budget capital
to deploy and expand the raw material area. This public agency is responsible for establishing
the Steering Committee for the Production Program Combined with Resource Conservation
and Social Security at the district level (District PPI Compact); mobilize departments and mass
organizations in the state management system to support and participate in the implementation
of the Program’s activities so that the Program achieve the goals; organize communication and
information campaigns for local people in the area to ensure that they understand the Program
activities before participating and actively cooperate to achieve the identified objectives; arrange,
prioritize, mobilize and integrate resources from different programs such as: National target
programs and private sector programs for program implementation; create favorable conditions

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