Rikolto in Vietnam

Piloting only 2 hectares of SRP-compliant rice plantation in Thap Muoi district, Dong Thap province, Mr. Nguyen Van Hung has seen a promising direction for sustainable rice production in his homeland with Rikolto’s support.

Between March and August 2019, three journalists from the digital platform Eos Tracé visited partner cities of Rikolto's Food Smart Cities programme. This book tells their stories from 9 cities in Vietnam, Belgium, Tanzania, Indonesia, Ecuador, Honduras and Nicaragua.

Since 2018, Dang Xa cooperative in Hanoi has been using a Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) to guarantee that its vegetables are produced according to Good Agricultural Practices. Thanks to PGS, farmers from Dang Xa have been able to increase their access to markets and to better organise their production.

On 22 March 2019, the City of Da Nang in central Vietnam adopted its Food Smart City development strategy for 2020-2030 with a vision towards 2045. The strategy is the outcome of a fruitful collaboration between Da Nang’s Food Safety Management Authority, Vietnam National University of Agriculture and Rikolto.

Vegetables farmers nowadays tend to use biological pesticides which are less poisonous. However, there still remain a small number of farmers using highly-poisonous pesticides due to the fact that they are not fully aware of the effects and still use them as a habit

The People’s Committee of Danang city issued Decision 995/QĐ-UBND dated 05 March, 2019 approving the vegetable chain development projects by Rikolto.

At the end of February, 2019, a two-day workshop was organized by Da Nang Food Safety Management Authority, Vietnam University of Agriculture (VNUA) and Rikolto to develop a strategy for Da Nang to become a food-smart city.