Rikolto in Vietnam

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.

In an effort to support farmer organizations to access to the market, Rikolto in Vietnam, on behalf of our partners, is looking for a researcher (or a group of researchers) to conduct a market research identifying barriers and opportunities in accessing the safe vegetable market as well as develop a feasible marketing plan for our target safe vegetable cooperatives in this project.

To understand better how the rice programme with its strategy is aiming to help the rice farming in Vietnam currently, We carry out a brief in-house interview with Dr Minh Thi Thai – our Regional director, as well as Rice programme coordinator for Rikolto in Vietnam – about the meaning behind Rikolto Rice Value proposition.

Rikolto Rice Cluster works within rice value chains in 9 countries: Indonesia, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali and Vietnam. Rikolto's rice sector staff in these 9 countries meet within the "Rice Cluster" to encourage peer-to-peer learning and monitoring across regions, and to seek knowledge exchange between partners and other rice sectors.