Invite healers to share their knowledge of herbal medicinal plants by mapping the village landscape on A0 paper showing location of plants, giving their names and describing their uses, time (season and time of day) of harvesting...

‘Food Sovereignty’ is defined as “the right of local people to control their own food systems, including markets, ecological resources, food cultures and productive modes

Food Sovereignty began as an international farmers’ movement in the 1990s. Farmers claimed that the people who produce the food should control its production and distribution

Why, when people all over the world feel so scared and worried about the Corona virus (COVID-19), for example, wearing face masks whenever going out, do HEPA and its people keep living so confidently and peacefully in harmony with nature

HEPA Huyen Vi is a biodiversity preservation area which is located in the upper catchment of the Ngan Pho river. HEPA Huyen Vi was restored from a depleted watershed forest into a rich one with the 50-year land use rights Certificate issued by the Ha Tinh Provincial People’s Committee to the Center of Human Ecological Study of Highland (CHESH) under the Decision No.1230/QĐUB dated 5 June 2002.

Philosophy of Nurturing Nature through eco-farming has been practiced at HEPA’s pilot models located in different villages (Mr. Hoang Huu Phuoc’s garden, An Linh Son farm, Cultural and Ecological village of Violak and HEPA Huyen Vi farm) based on 5 steps of landscape observation