Viet Nam Human Rights
Vietnam to work to ensure food security
The Prime Minister recently signed Decision No.1975/QD-TTg issuing an action plan to realise the Politburo’s Conclusion No.81-KL/TW dated July 29 on ensuring national food security till 2030.
Accordingly, ministries, ministry-level and Government agencies, and People’s Committees of centrally-run cities and provinces must adopt synchronous and effective measures in accordance with the Conclusion.
The PM requested raising public awareness of national food security in the new situation, considering it as a specially important task during industrialisation and modernisation, strengthening the Party and authorities’ leadership in ensuring food security for citizens, localities and the whole nation.
They are assigned to rearrange, speed up mechanisation and automation of production in combination with food processing and consumption, continue to effectively carry out the Vietnam rice trademark project and rice export development strategy, and develop key rice cultivation zones in advantageous areas.
The leader ordered improving public access to safe food, ensuring nutrition, upgrading and modernising infrastructure with a focus on transportation, transport and logistics services while developing a food security information system and forecasting food production and consumption for timely support.
He asked for continuing to fine-tune policies and mechanisms to ensure national food security, perfect policies related to land, investment, finance, credit and trade, as well as food export-import mechanism.
At the same time, human resources training must be improved to meet demand of a modern, high-tech and smart agriculture sector, and clean and organic agriculture expanded in tandem with origin tracing and food safety supervision.
The PM directed improving the efficiency of State management on food security, strengthening vet medicine and plant protection system amid the complicated developments of epidemics.
It is also a must to effectively use natural resources in adaptation with climate change, closely incorporate food security guarantee into national, regional and local development as well as land use planning, especially land for rice farming.
The Government leader demanded adopting sustainable intensive farming measures, complying with laws on environment protection for farming activities causing waste, wastewater and other polluting substances, and effectively using chemical fertilisers and plant protection medicines to protect land and water environment.
Ministries, ministry-level and Government agencies, and People’s Committees of centrally-run cities and provinces were tasked with increasing international cooperation in food security so as to improve competitiveness and export value of food, removing technical barriers, and harmonising regional and global standards on food security./.
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The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that access to food is a fundamental human right. It is a basic need of humankind required for health and productivity, and contributes significantly to social wellbeing, economic development
and national and global stability
all people at all times have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
Vietnam has made incredible progress in improving food security over the last 30 years
The Doi Moi policy reforms of the late 1980s allowed Vietnam to reform its agricultural sector. From suffering severe food shortages, it was able to become one of the world’s leading rice exporters.
Vietnam now produces more than enough calories for the whole population at a national level
However, significant food security issues remain. Malnutrition, anaemia and food safety are persistent issues, especially among pregnant women, children under five years of age, and peopled in disadvantaged regions.
Due to the rapid increase in food production and productivity since the Doi Moi reform, Vietnam now meets most of its basic food needs through domestic production, and even has surplus for export
Over the last 30 years, the agricultural sector in Vietnam has restructured
In Vietnam, agriculture, farmers and rural areas have a strategic
role in industrialisation and modernisation processes which help to build and protect a state’s prosperity
Agriculture is a foundation for a state’s economic development, sustainable society, political stability, and national security. If agricultural development is managed well, it also preserves and promotes the national cultural identity and can contribute to ecological sustainability
Việt Nam was among the top rice exporters in the world but still ranked at an average level of food security, and it must find out solutions to tackle shortcomings of the country’s agriculture production and food security.
Food security must be ensured in every circumstance. Food is an essential, necessary commodity that needs to be stable in every circumstance
Việt Nam’s food security contributed to global food security but first of all, sufficient supply must be ensured for the nearly 100 million Vietnamese.
amid the COVID-19 crisis, recently people had rushed to hoard food after hearing reports of new infection cases
Food security becomes a more crucial issue for every nation, particularly in the context of politic instability, negative impacts of climate change and unconventional security, for example, a global pandemic
The Politbureau also required a balance between domestic consumption and exports, a system of food trade and reserves so people can easily access food of high quality.
From 2009 to 2019, the country’s rice production increased from 39.17 million tonnes to 43.4 million tonnes.
In the last 10 years, 9.6 million rural workers were given training courses, 90 per cent of them got new jobs or still stayed in their previous jobs but earned more.
The income of people in rural areas reportedly increased 4.3 times in the last 10 years, leading to their increased access to food
To achieve this, Việt Nam’s agricultural sector has been improved productivity and quality, and identify export markets.
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