MekongEye-Aug 24
Vietnam is positioning itself as a food innovation hub for Asia, and is building its reputation as a responsible, transparent, and sustainable food provider in the process. As part of this transformation from agri-food systems based on crop monocultures and separate intensive livestock rearing, sustained by environmentally disruptive chemicals, it is putting agroecology at the heart of its efforts. Agroecology embraces a farming approach that makes use of ecological processes rather than their substitution by artificial alternatives, combines local and scientific knowledge, and focuses on the interactions between plants, animals, humans, and the environment.
This commitment was highlighted during a side event, ‘Harnessing the potential of agroecology in Southeast Asia to transform food systems to become sustainable’, at the 4th Global Conference of the One Planet Network‘s Sustainable Food System Programme(SFS Programme) in Hanoi on 25th April 2023. Siting the event in Vietnam was an obvious choice, as the country’s leaders have made no bones about centering agroecology in recent years. Their 2021-2025 socio-economic plan contains a resolution to ‘encourage the development of green, clean, ecological, organic, hi-tech, smart agriculture adaptable to climate change’ and the National Strategy for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development 2021-2030, vision to 2050 is explicitly oriented toward agroecological solutions. Read more at:
