Vietnam

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, in partnership with New Zealand, will help Vietnamese smallholder farmers improve the safety of their products such as poultry, fruits, and vegetables, thus unlocking new market opportunities, increasing income, and contributing to better food security.  Read more.  Read more

HANOI, June 16 (Xinhua) -- Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued a National Action Program on Zero Hunger, aiming to ensure enough food and nutrition for all Vietnamese. Read more

HÀ NỘI — Malnutrition rates among mothers and children improved remarkably in the northern provinces of Lào Cai, Lai Châu, and Hà Giang through a poverty reduction project, which ended in June 2018. The 32-month project, “Scaling up small-scale food processing for therapeutic and complementary foods for children in Việt Nam,” was implemented by the National Institute of Nutrition… Read more

“Right now there is very little rambutan in the market since Vietnam is the main supplier this time of year and they have been on Lunar New Year holidays since Feb 15,” says Paul Armstrong of Los Angeles, Ca.-based RHA Group. “But we have started getting in shipments this week and getting back to normal.” While Vietnam is the current source of rambutan, a spikyish red fruit that’s… Read more

Women and ethnic minorities in north-western Vietnam are improving their farming practices and boosting their incomes thanks to an Australian aid project. A $2.3 million Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) project is addressing the need to reduce poverty and improve nutrition there through boosting vegetable production. Vàng Thị Hường is a mother of three… Read more

Childhood obesity is rapidly increasing in Vietnam with a new study revealing that 11.2% of youngsters aged six to 10 are overweight and 10.1% obese. Read more. Read more

Vietnam is still gathering strength on rice production, taking pride as the biggest rice exporter in the world.  Hoang Ngoc Phong, deputy director of the Economic Development Consultancy Center, said the Mekong Delta makes up 18 percent of GDP with 90 percent of rice exports, 60 percent of seafood and 70 percent of fruit exports.  However, the delta now has to pay the penalty for… Read more

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) will continue accompanying Vietnam and supporting the country to implement underway programmes and projects, Assistant Director-General and FAO Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific Kundhavi Kadiresan has said. She made the affirmation at a meeting with Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc… Read more

Vietnam will reform rice production to gain sustainable development in the production and export of rice, according to Vietnam’s Rice Market Development Strategy from 2017 to 2020. According to the strategy for developing the country’s rice export market in the 2017–20 period with a vision to 2030, one of the goals is to gradually reduce the rice export volume but increase the value of… Read more

CẦN THƠ – The Policy Partnership on Food Security (PPFS) meeting was held in Cần Thơ yesterday during the APEC Food Security Week to shape actions to ensure food security in the context of climate change and urbanisation. PPFS members updated the two-day meeting on outcomes of completed and ongoing activities for 2017, and discussed and approved the action… Read more