81269200-Green Innovation Centers for the Agriculture and Food Sector in Vietnam

The Vietnam country package (GIC) is part of the global project ‘Green Innovation Centres in the Agricultural and Food Sector’ of the BMZ special initiative ‘One World without Hunger" (SEWoH). It is carried out in six central provinces of the Mekong Delta the so called ‘core rice belt’, which consists of 20 districts in An Giang, Dong Tharp, Can Tho, Kien Giang, Hau Giang and Soc Trang. The core element is the ability of smallholder farms, as well as upstream and downstream companies in the value chain (VC) rice and complementary mango value chain to use income-, employment- and quality-increasing as well as climate-intelligent innovations. The Vietnam country package thus contributes to the objectives of the global project of increasing income, promoting employment and adapting to projected impacts of climate change as well as to the special initiative's objective of overcoming hunger and malnutrition. The situation of women and young people is to be improved, especially with regard to (youth) employment. The measures will be implemented within the framework of three core modules (or fields of action) and an adoption-focused proxy module: 1) Local innovation systems (output A); 2) Competence development (output B); and 3) Sustainable agribusiness (output C). Under ‘from innovation to mainstream’ (output D), the effective adoption and broad-scale impact of innovations promoted through the three core output areas is assessed. Natural resources management (NRM) and the adoption of climate-smart innovations to reduce the vulnerability against the projected and already occurring impacts of climate change play a crucial, cross-cutting role for GIC. The transfer of innovations and further know-how in rice and mango value chain aspects to other partner countries of the GIC in the agricultural and food industry is also of particular importance. The lead executing agency for the project is the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD). At the implementation level, technical departments of MARD, provincial and local level authorities, research institutions and private enterprises play a crucial role.