VIETNAM
Vietnam is driving South-South cooperation. It has unified its agriculture and environment ministries and is scaling low-emission rice.
Vision
‘’Viet Nam aims to be a transparent, responsible, sustainable food producer and supplier of green agriculture with low emissions, and to achieve Net Zero emissions by 2050. With its experience and the help of international donors, Viet Nam is always ready and committed to expanding South-South and Triangular Cooperation to support African countries to ensure food’’
Minister Le Minh Hoan
Former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) December 2023
hIGHLIGHTS
Championing a shift in Food Systems Policy thinking: Viet Nam has progressed its thinking on food system transformation from a focus on food security to a holistic food system-based approach. Viet Nam has established the Food Systems Transformation Partnership to support the implementation of the National Action Plan.
Pioneering groundbreaking low-emission rice at scale: More than 354,000 hectares had been enrolled in the One Million Hectares low-emission rice programme by the end of 2025, as reported in March 2026. The programme has delivered outstanding results increasing yields while reducing input costs, emissions, pesticide, fertiliser and water use.
Leading South-South cooperation: Viet Nam is actively supporting work on rice, food crops, coffee, aquaculture, livestock, forestry, small-scale irrigation, agricultural extension, climate change adaptation and agricultural value chain development in African countries, and turning its domestic transformation into a platform for wider peer learning
Reports and resources
2026 progress snapshot
- HIGHLIGHTS
- Headline Areas of Progress in 2026
- Country context
- KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN 2025/26
- LEADERSHIP IN FOOD SYSTEMS TRANSFORMATION:
DRIVING GLOBAL CHANGE