Independiente Diálogo
Enfoque geográfico:
Viet Nam
Discussion topic outcome
Action Track 1: Ensure access to safe and nutritious food for all • Several food policies cannot catch up to food system development. • Lack in effective implementation of food policies and laws • Limited access and relatively low consumer trust to safe and nutritious foods • Food safety is a major issue due to hygiene deficits along the value chains resulting to considerable health risk for consumers (e.g., consumption of pork contaminated with microbial pathogens, abuse of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, veterinary products, food additives, and traditional farming habits). • High
... Leer más rate of children malnutrition and nutrition deficiency in the mountainous and remote areas Action Track 2: Shift to sustainable consumption patterns • Junk food transition happens due to inadequate post-harvest handling practices and infrastructure, availability, and prices. • Food labeling is not transparent. • There is no clear evidence to distinguish between healthy, safe foods, and junk foods. • There is lack of research and policies on food waste and food loss. Action Track 3: Boost nature-positive production • Limited capacity of cooperatives to manage trade and develop agricultural products • Transition to landscape approach regarding land procession, land use planning, application of new varieties/technologies • Conflicts between the optimal temporal and spatial scales of synergies from products and diversification when applying the landscape approach due to dominance of small-scale and fragmented production (ecological and adaptation benefits are longer term) • Donors often give the funding for short-term projects (3 - 4 years) which is not feasible for perennial plantations nor to result to many of the ecosystem benefits (e.g., soil improvement, natural pollination, and even effects on natural disaster prevention). • Farmers, extension, and local seed/seedling suppliers are unfamiliar with choosing input products and matching production systems for diversification/ecosystem approaches. • Large-scale production planning is needed. • Some agricultural policy favor monoculture; resulting to gaps and less opportunities for diversification. • The provincial policy is not harmonized with the national policies, e.g., there are no offers/support/incentives to implement diversification policy at the local level. Action Track 4: Advanced equitable livelihoods • Many food value chains are not sustainable; the linkages between actors are loose, and the flow of information is not transparent. • The poor and ethnic minorities are dependent on agriculture and natural resources and vulnerable to climate change. They have limited access to resources (input, capital, land, market). • Ethnic minorities are still lagging behind on income, accessibility to education, services and nutrition. • Unfair competition among enterprises due to lack of information transparency. Action Track 5: Build resilience to vulnerabilities, shocks, and stress • A common problem for agricultural products in Vietnam: high yields (good harvest season) cause price drops due to limited postharvest and processing technologies. • Harsh weather conditions, climate change, African swine fever outbreak, and COVID-19 pandemic make farmers unsecure and result in major market shocks. • Climate change causing more frequent and harsher storms, landslide, soil erosion, drought, saline water intrusion negatively impacts crops, and livestock and producers’ livelihood • Failure of cultivation on monocrops • Limited ability to adapt to climate change • Limited involvement of the private sectors Leer menos
Línea(s) de Acción: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Palabras clave: Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Finance, Governance, Innovation, Policy, Trade-offs, Women & Youth Empowerment