TRAINING
v Undergraduate courses:
-       Planning
-       Investment Economics
-       Bidding
-       Investment
-       Economics Research Methods
-       Management Science
-       Leadership and decision-making skills
v Post-graduate courses:
-       Advanced Management Science
-       Advanced Economics Research Methods
-       Advanced Management and Investment
-       Advanced Financial Economics
-       Advanced Leadership and decision-making skills
-       Advanced Planning 
v Training, consultancy service and technology transfer:
-       Programs and Projects Evaluation
-       Behavior Evaluation
-       Participatory Planning
-       Implementing Poverty Reduction Supportation 
-       Livelihood Development
-       Value Chain… 
RESEARCH
v Research focus
The Department's main research fields are agricultural economics, rural development, socio-economic development, and policy evaluation. In addition, the Department will expand the research field in the following directions:
-       Developing, evaluating, and appraising strategy and socio-economic development plan.
-       Attracting domestic and international investment.
-       Completion of planning.
-       Efficiency improvement of investment capital
-       Risk and risk management 
-       State management of budget, tax, revenue – expenditure…
-       Supply chain and value chain of agricultural products
-       Human Resource Development
-       Agricultural and rural economy
-       Households, farms, cooperatives, businesses in agriculture, rural development.
-       Linkages in the production and consumption of agricultural products.
-       Agricultural products Market.
-       Assessment of the behaviour of the actors in agricultural production. 
v On-going projects
-       A feasibility study of the Emission Reduction Project in the Central Highlands and South Central Coast of Vietnam, which would contribute to achieving the objectives of the national REDD+ action program in Ninh Thuan province.
-       The project “Poverty Dynamics and Sustainable Development: A Long-term Panel Project in Thailand and Vietnam” (TVSEP) was funded by the Leibniz University Hannover.
-       Assess the current situation and propose solutions to develop concentrated herbal production areas according to the value chain in Hoa Binh province, Vietnam.
-       Solution of land accumulation and concentration for agricultural and aquaculture development towards large-scale goods in Namdinh province, Vietnam. 
v Completed projects
-       Basic solutions to sustainable poverty reduction in ethnic minorities and mountainous areas in Vietnam until 2030.
-       Solution to attract enterprises’ investment in high-tech agriculture of Hanoi city.
-       Solution to attract enterprises’ investment in the agriculture sector of Hoabinh province, Vietnam.
-       Evaluation of the graduation approach to Vietnam's child poverty reduction program.
-       Assessment of the current situation, proposing policies and solutions to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) in agricultural production and business (Ministerial-level project, Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development)
-       Research on the coping ability of the rural poor to the impact of natural disaster risk and socio-economic fluctuation (The State-level project).
-       Research on risk management policy for pig farming in Vietnam (Ministerial-level project, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development).
-       Solution to maintain criteria for communes meeting new rural standards in the period of 2014 – 2018 in Yenbai province.  
v Key international publications
-       Livestock production and income inequality in rural Vietnam, Empirical Economics 62 (2) (2022), 409-438; IF 1.9 (2023)
-       Indigenous pig production and welfare of ultra-poor ethnic minority households in the Northern mountains of Vietnam, Environment, Development and Sustainability 24 (1) (2022), 156-179. IF 4.7 (2023)
-       Health shocks and natural resource extraction: A Cambodian case study. Ecological Economics 169 (2020), 106517. IF 6.6 (2023). 
-       Livestock Production, Rural Poverty, and Perceived Shocks: Evidence from Panel Data for Vietnam. The Journal of Development Studies 55 (1) (2019), 99-119; IF 1.8 (2023).
-       Nonfarm employment and household food security: evidence from panel data for rural Cambodia. Food Security 11 (3) (2019), 703-718; IF 5.6 (2023).
-       Farm production efficiency and natural forest extraction: Evidence from Cambodia. Land Use Policy 71 (2018) 480 – 493; IF 6.0 (2023). 
DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
-       Central level: Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ministry of Planning and Investment, Ministry of Finance…
-       Local level: People’s Committees of provinces/cities such as Hanoi, Bacninh, Namdinh, Hoabinh, Tuyenquang, Phutho…
-       National and international universities.
-       National and international non-government organisations: IRRI, SEARCA, PLAN INTERNATIONAL Vietnam, Save the Children, SNV, CARE, ADB, WB. 
STAFF
    
        
            | No. | Full name | Academictitle | Training institution of the highest academic degree | Position |   Email | 
        
            | 1 | Nguyen Thi Minh Thu | Doctor of Philosophy | Vietnam National University of Agriculture | Head of theDepartment, Senior lecturer and researcher | Ntmthu@vnua.edu.vn | 
        
            | 2 | Truong Lam Do | Doctor of Philosophy | Leibniz Hannover University, Germany | Deputy Head of the Department, Senior lecturer. | dtlam@vnua.edu.vn | 
        
            | 3 | Tran Dinh Thao | Associate Professor | Vietnam National University of Agriculture | Director - Institute of Economy and Development, Senior Lecturer | Thaoktl@vnua.edu.vn | 
        
            | 4 | Nguyen Tuan Son | Associate Professor | University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) | Senior Lecturer | nguyentuanson@ vnua.edu.vn | 
        
            | 5 | Tran Huong Giang | Doctor of Philosophy | Antwerp University, Belgium | Lecturer | huonggiang@ vnua.edu.vn | 
        
            | 6 | Vu Thi Thu Huong | Master | Kyushu University, Japan | Lecturer | vtthuong@vnua.edu.vn | 
        
            | 7 | Dang Nam Phuong | Master | University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) | Lecturer | dnphuong@vnua.edu.vn   | 
    
 In addition, the Department regularly contracts with visiting lecturers and researchers to support teaching, scientific research and technology transfer activities.
 Contact information:
Department of Planning and Investment,
Room 416, 4th Floor, Bui Huy Dap Building, Vietnam National University of Agriculture.
Phone: (84-4) 6261 8486
Email: bmkhdt@gmail.com
 Website: http://ktql.vnua.edu.vn