The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is supporting Viet Nam in its wide-ranging efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2.

As part of this work, FAO joined the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) in holding a workshop on January 8, 2020 to mark the closure of the project TCP/VIE/3604 “Policy-based support to agriculture production in line with new rural development, sustainable poverty reduction and Zero Hunger initiative of Viet Nam” to realize these objectives.

In particular, the workshop highlighted FAO’s significant contribution towards implementation of the National Zero Hunger Action Plan, with comprehensive technical assistance to review capacity and policy gaps as well as develop guidelines for its roll-out.
This work helped realize integration of nutrition in agricultural production projects and cross-sectoral coordination — key challenges in the action plan’s implementation. In addition to interventions at institutional level, the project also facilitated demonstrations of development and implementation of nutritional sensitive agriculture value chain projects to serve as best practice for replication.

Despite becoming a lower middle-income country and a key exporter of food and agriculture commodities, Viet Nam’s malnutrition rate remains high and requires collective efforts to address it. To help meet these challenges, FAO’s priority is to support Viet Nam in tackling poverty, hunger and nutrition issues and achieve SDG2 through a holistic approach.