Rikolto in Vietnam

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.

On 30 July, Vietnam National University of Agriculture and Rikolto organised the workshop “10 years of Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) in Vietnam: Sharing lessons and introducing a new PGS training toolbox”. The event concluded a one-year project funded by the Agroecology Learning Alliance in Southeast Asia to capitalise PGS experiences in Vietnam for upscaling and institutionalisation.

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.

On 28-30 May, Rikolto organised a 3-day workshop to design a new participatory guarantee system (PGS) for safe vegetables in Ha Nam province, marking the first step in the creation of the brand new PGS Ha Nam.