In developing countries, increasing population and growing welfare place pressure on the natural environment and result in problems such as deforestation, overgrazing, and the contamination of land and water resources. In turn, the depletion of natural resources frequently leads to land scarcity and to widespread changes in land use. Increasingly, also, we are aware that environmental issues may transcend national boundaries.

In Vietnam the future growth in the rural sector is expected to come from further crop diversification and increases in productivity, making the quality of irrigation services of central importance.

In the last 10 years, the land per capital is decreased significantly because of population pressure. Farmers need help to change their land use method, to equip with new technology in order to boot productivity and diversity their product.

In the last two decades, energy demand growth rate of Vietnam is 30% higher than that of GDP. Energy demand management is as a challenging task as developing a stable growth in energy supply.