Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development.
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Author Biography
Tran Cong Thang is Vice Director General of the Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development. He graduated from the University of Western Australia with a PhD in agricultural economics. He has been working in the agricultural sector for nearly 20 years. His principal field of study is market research and policy consultancy, and he has conducted extensive research on markets and commodities, food security and economic integration. He has also implemented many policy evaluations and project assessments in the agricultural sector.
Information Centre, Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development (IPSARD).
Bio
Author Biography
Dinh Thi Bao Linh (MDE) is Vice-Director of the Information Centre, Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development (IPSARD). She is experienced in policy assessment, particularly on food safety and was co-ordinator of the IPSARD project Food Safety in Small-scale Production in Vietnam, supported by the Vredes Eilanden Country Office (VECO) Vietnam (2012–14). She has contributed to food safety programmes and activities of the Vietnamese organic participatory guarantee system network, which includes farmers, businesspeople and experts from other Vietnamese ministries.
Volume 46
Number 6
Published: November 15, 2015
With 66 per cent of the population living in rural areas, over half depending on farm activities, food security and food safety are now two sides of the government effort to ensure food accessibility for the poor in Vietnam. While people living on low incomes may have to choose cheaper food over safer food, they are now more aware of food safety issues, and need more support to access safe food. After a long time of focusing on increasing food security in terms of quantities, new efforts are now needed to change the practice and awareness of stakeholders to move to quality-oriented production and consumption, including creating reasonable incentives for food producers, socialising of food safety monitoring and improving food safety inspection in Vietnam.
Keywords:
- Food security
- Food prices
