Agriculture, including forestry and
fisheries, is an important sector of Viet Nam's economy, accounting for 18
percent of GDP. About 71 percent of the people live in rural areas, and 62
percent depend on agriculture for their livelihood.
Viet
Nam is making good progress towards reaching both the targets of the World Food
Summit and Millennium Development Goals. About 9.6 million people (11 percent
of the population) remain undernourished, down from 13.3 million in 2002.
FAO's main in-country programmes
Special
Programme for Food Security
Under
the South-South Cooperation initiative of the Special Programme for Food
Security, Viet Nam is providing experts and field technicians to Senegal,
Benin, Madagascar, People's Democratic Republic of Lao, the Republic of Congo
and Mali.
EMPRES
animal health component
The Emergency
Prevention System for Transboundary Animal and Plant Pests and Diseases
(EMPRES) is focusing on highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) and several
livestock diseases in Viet Nam.
Viet
Nam has been recognized as infected with HPAI since January 2004. Since then,
five waves of infection have hit the country affecting domestic poultry and
wild birds. Recent outbreaks were reported in March 2009. The situation is
considered as enzootic. Since 2004, 109 human cases have been reported, 54 of
them fatal. Viet Nam is a beneficiary country of four ongoing FAO HPAI projects
at global, regional and national levels. Earlier assistance included support
from 13 FAO projects at various levels.
Viet
Nam hosted the International Conference on Avian and Human Influenza in early
2010.
Outbreaks
of foot-and-mouth disease are reported to have affected large areas of the
country. FAO has provided technical advice but has not identified funding
resources for disease control action.
When a
series of unusual pig deaths were reported in August 2007, the Crisis
Management Centre - Animal Health (CMC-AH) fielded a team of animal health
experts to investigate the situation rapidly. Mission findings indicated that
the mortality rates were the result of an interaction between multiple swine
diseases, including a recent Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome
outbreak. Following up on CMC-AH efforts, FAO and the Government of Viet Nam
have called on the international community to support future disease
investigation and laboratory work.
National Medium Term Priority Framework
The
National Medium Term Priority Framework 2006-2010 is being implemented in close
partnership with and great support from the Vietnamese government, donors and
all other related bodies, international and domestic alike.
The
framework aims to promote equitable sustainable sector growth through improved
productivity, competitiveness and enhanced product quality. To this end, FAO
has launched extensive programmes covering a broad spectrum of agriculture
including crops, fisheries, forestry, post harvest technology and food safety
and quality.
The
framework also aims to improve the quality of life and living conditions for
the rural poor and vulnerable through more equitable access to food, social
services and empowerment. FAO is focusing on:
-
reducing
the proportion of poor, hungry and vulnerable rural households;
-
reducing
adverse impacts in vulnerable regions;
-
enhancing
crop/livestock disease control; and
-
encouraging
the equal participation and involvement of all rural stakeholders.
With
the aim to ensure environmental and natural resource sustainability, FAO has
implemented projects in the areas of:
-
conservation
of biodiversity and environmentally critical areas and endangered environmental
resources;
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improving
participatory systems for sustainable natural resources management; and
-
enhancing
environmental management capacity by rural service providers and rural
infrastructure.
The
development goal of enhancing institutional capacity for effective and dynamic
sector management will be realized by implementing projects that improve public
service delivery management and enhance decentralized units and private sector
involvement.
One UN - One Programme
Viet
Nam has been one of the eight self-selected Delivering as One pilot countries
since 2007.
The One
Plan (2006-2010) was signed between the Government of Viet Nam and
representatives of 14 UN organizations in Viet Nam. FAO is actively
participating in the pilot initiative. Programme Coordination Groups have been
established to deliver results in a coherent way. FAO participates in six of
these groups and is co-chair of two of them. The groups are:
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Trade,
Employment and Enterprise Development
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Gender
-
Health
and Reproductive Rights
-
Sustainable
Development (FAO co-chair with UNESCO)
-
Natural
Disasters and Emergencies
-
Communicable
Diseases and Animal Diseases (FAO co-chair with WHO)
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