Rikolto in Vietnam

As part of the project “Capitalisation of Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) experiences in Vietnam for upscaling and institutionalisation”, supported by the Agroecology Learning Alliance in Southeast Asia, Rikolto developed a trainer’s toolbox to encourage more practitioners to support the development of PGS in their area.

In July 2018, Hanoi’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and Rikolto started a new collaboration to setup PGS for safe vegetables in various locations around Hanoi. Supported by the Conservation, Food and Health Foundation, this project aims to build evidence of the benefits of PGS in order to replicate the model across Hanoi.

We are recruiting a Junior Fundraising and Communications Officer to coordinate and implement fundraising and communication activities at Rikolto in Vietnam. The deadline to apply is 20 September 2018.

What is PGS? How does it work? What has it achieved? What lessons have we learned? This policy brief answers all those questions and more and makes a series of recommendations about what policy-makers can do to support the development of PGS in Vietnam.

As part of a capitalisation project on Participatory Guarantee Systems in Vietnam, Vietnam National University of Agriculture and Rikolto investigated all existing PGS in Vietnam to analyse how PGS could be improved. This case study looks at the factors that contribute to making Thanh Xuan intergroup, established by the Danish NGO ADDA, one of the most successful and sustainable PGS in Vietnam.

Over the 10 years of their existence in Vietnam, Participatory Guarantee Systems have encountered many successes but also sometimes serious struggles. This case study dives into the challenges experiences by one PGS in northern Vietnam and proposes recommendations on how to avoid some of the common pitfalls.

In 2017, Rikolto and Vietnam National University of Agriculture embarked on a one-year project funded by the Agroecology Learning Alliance in Southeast Asia to document Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) in Vietnam. The Executive Summary presents the main findings of the study, based on the investigation of all 10 PGS intergroups in the country.