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mild bitterness, long aftertaste”, like an expert. People said confidently: “The French brought coffee
here, the Son La people will bring specialty coffee to the world”.
After three years, women of the cooperative have mastered the process of caring, collecting,
processing, and properly evaluating the technique according to specialty coffee standards. The success
of the model shows that the poor in ethnic minority areas can fully join together to develop collective
production, change traditional practices, connect markets, use e-commerce, reduce poverty and create
sustainable livelihoods.

5.11. Co-management Model of Coastal Aquatic Resources
in Thua Thien Hue Province
5.11.1. General information
Tam Giang–Cau Hai lagoon in Thua Thien Hue has a length of 70 km with a water surface area of
about 22,000 ha, one of the largest lagoon systems in the world. About one third of the population of
Thua Thien Hue province live in the lagoon area and depend on the industries they can exploit in this
area such as fishing, aquaculture, transportation, tourism, etc. It can be said that the Tam Giang–Cau
Hai lagoon plays a particularly important role in the socio-economic development of Thua Thien Hue
province in general and the lagoon area in particular.
In recent years, the pressure of overexploration on the lagoon area has put great pressure on the
environment and resources here. Many conflicts have appeared, people’s livelihoods have become
unsustainable as a result of the lack of a well-organized and managed mechanism for exploiting
lagoon resources. This pressure leads to the need for timely and effective actions to avoid the risk of
degradation of the entire biodiversity of the lagoon environment, protect natural resources and ensure
the quality of livelihoods of people.

5.11.2. Model development

Since 2005, based on access to aquatic resources and co-management, the IMOLA project began to
provide support to Thua Thien Hue province in “developing and implementing an integrated regional
lagoons, built on consensus among stakeholders, thereby balancing the sustainable use of lagoon
resources with the livelihoods and needs of resource users”.
The overall objective of the project is to improve people’s livelihood by promoting sustainable
management of aquatic resources in the lagoon, which will be community participatory and in line
with socio-economic requirements and production of the population. Over the past four years of
implementation, the project has achieved many important results, especially the application of modern
techniques and technologies to the assessment of the lagoon situation, the development of planning,
plans to be linked to community commitments in exploiting resources in Tam Giang lagoon to bring
about a new institutionalized co-management mechanism.
The development of planning and plans to exploit and develop resources is not a new job for many
development projects. However, the difference of this project is that the activities range from assessing
the status of environmental resources to building community commitments and institutionalizing
principles of resource exploitation and management. All resources here have the participation of the
community and related actors in the area.
Faced with the unsustainable situation in the management and exploitation of lagoon resources,
along with the province’s view on community-based management, the IMOLA project implements
a “co-management” approach by building branches Association of Fisheries and form a relationship
and share management roles between the Fisheries Association and local authorities and related
units. This approach is not new and is the experience drawn from many models of co-management of

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