Agroecological transition and organic certification in Vietnam to empower rural communities

The supply of safe agricultural products in Vietnam is still largely unstable and expensive, and organic exports from Vietnam are seen as a potential rather than a reality. Sector growth could be accelerated with appropriate allocation of resources but farmers, market actors and policy makers lack the information they need to further develop the sector.

This project has the following aims:

1. Analyse the economic resilience, governance, environmental integrity, social well-being and technical constraints of smallholder farms in Vietnam.
2. Explore the potential of organic agriculture to contribute to sustainable development of rural communities, the resilience of smallholder farms and the health, food security and empowerment of smallholder farmers.
3. Analyse the institutional support for organic agriculture.
4. Apply the results, with policy engagement and dissemination, to enable Vietnamese farmers to convert to organic production.

• Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
• NAFOSTED Vietnam

• Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) – National Research Programmes (NRPs)
• Further programmes

• Grovermann Christian (Department of Food System Sciences)
• Home Robert (Department of Food System Sciences)

• Schader Christian (Department of Food System Sciences)
• Tennhardt Lina (Department of Food System Sciences)

Project lead

• Evaluation & Impact Assessment (Department of Food System Sciences, FiBL Switzerland)
• Society & Innovation (Department of Food System Sciences, FiBL Switzerland)
• Sustainability (Department of Food System Sciences, FiBL Switzerland)