REPORTING 2022 EVIDENCES PART 1: Description and all information of the outcome/impact reported TYPE OUTCOME STORY/IMPACT STATEMENT OICR: Outcome Impact Case Report Alliance successfully integrated the concepts of sustainable healthy diets and sustainable food systems into the Q&A guidelines for the TITLE Strategy for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development, Period Alliance’s research and engagement contributes to 2021–2030 and Vision to 2050 led by IPSARD-MARD. Since 2021, Alliance developing National Action Plan for Transparent, researchers have engaged in the process of UNFSS dialogues and Responsible, and Sustainable Food Systems summit, and technical meetings for drafting the technical report Transformation in Vietnam highlighting the government’s need for a food systems’ plan and developing the National Action Plan for Transparent, Responsible, and STATUS Sustainable Food Systems Transformation (2022–2030) which was New approved by the Prime Minister level (March 2023) and is critical to the Strategy’s implementation. YEAR 2022 OUTCOME IMPACT CASE REPORT Study #4714 Stage of Maturity of change reported: stage 1 GEOGRAPHIC SCOPE: NATIONAL Contributing external partners: IPSARD - Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam VAAS - Vietnam Academy of Agricultural and Sciences NIN - National Institute of Nutrition, Vietnam GENDER, YOUTH, CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE Climate change relevance: 1 - Significant. It is mentioned in the COUNTRY: Viet Nam details of the SFS NAP approved by Vietnamese Government. We contributed to the development of this NAP technically [4] - same for Gender and Cap Dev Gender relevance: 1 - SIgnificant CapDev relevance: 1 - Significant CGIAR INNOVATION(S) OR FINDINGS THAT HAVE RESULTED IN THIS OUTCOME OR IMPACT 1.Vietnam, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. 2022. Guidelines for the Strategy for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development in the Period 2021–2030 and Vision to 2050. Hanoi. [3] 2.The National Action Plan for Transparent, Responsible, and Sustainable Food Systems Transformation (2022–2030) (NAP) [4] 3.Partial food systems baseline assessment at the Vietnam benchmark sites: [6] 4.Diets, Food Choices and Environmental aims to clarify and define key concepts and terms related to agriculture Impacts across an Urban-Rural Interface in and rural development. Previously, views on food security, agriculture, Northern Vietnam: [7] and diets had diverged between different organizations and ministries, 5.Food Systems Profile - Along a rural-urban with a strong focus on quantity to achieve food security. Sustainable transect in North Vietnam: [8] Healthy Diets supported IPSARD to adopt the concept of sustainable 6.Food Systems Profile: Moc Chau, The Rural healthy diets and to define key food systems terms. Area - Vietnam: [9] The development of the National Action Plan for Transparent, 7.Food Systems Profile: Dong Anh, The peri- Responsible, and Sustainable Food Systems Transformation (2022– urban area - Vietnam: [10] 2030) (NAP) is critical to the Strategy’s implementation. MARD, which is 8.Food Systems Profile - Cau Giay, The Urban responsible for developing NAP, has convened more than seven Area - Vietnam: [11] technical meetings to prepare the plan, based on input from different 9.Bottom-up participatory prioritization and departments and Ministries. Other stakeholders, including UN agencies, identification of potential actions and funders, and NGOs, also participated in consultations. The Initiative’s interventions in three benchmark sites of Country Coordinator has been a key member of the MARD-led technical CGIAR research program on Agriculture for working group to draft the NAP. The Initiative has also contributed to Nutrition and Health in Vietnam: [12] MARD’s technical report that explains the government’s need for a new plan. The technical report was submitted to the Prime Minister, along with NAP, in 2023. The National Action Plan for Transparent, ELABORATION OF OUTCOME/IMPACT Responsible, and Sustainable Food Systems Transformation (2022– STATEMENT 2030) (NAP) was approved by the Prime Minister level in March 2023 [4]. After the Initiative launched its activities in Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation Vietnam in June 2022, Vietnam’s Institute of (SHiFT)’s involvement in this process builds on the legacy of research Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural partnership and policy engagement achieved in Vietnam by the former Development (IPSARD) invited its researchers to Food Systems for Healthier Diets flagship, which was part of the CGIAR contribute to developing guidelines to support Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH-FSHD). the Strategy’s implementation [3].This As with A4NH-FSHD, SHiFT collaborates closely with Vietnamese publication, which was developed in partnership partners to develop innovative, research-based solutions that address with various departments under the Ministry of the complex challenges facing the country’s food system. Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), REFERENCES 1.National Institute of Nutrition. 2021. General Nutrition Survey 2019–2020. access here 2.Food Industry Asia and Oxford Economics. 2021. The Economic Impact of the Agri-Food Sector in Vietnam. Oxford. access here 3.Vietnam, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. 2022. Guidelines for the Strategy for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development in the Period 2021–2030 and Vision to 2050. Hanoi. access here 4. National Action Plan for Transparent, Responsible, and Sustainable Food Systems Transformation (2022–2030) (NAP) here 5.The technical report of National Action Plan for Transparent, Responsible, and Sustainable Food Systems Transformation (2022–2030) submitted to MARD. SFS NAP technical report_VAAS submit.pdf 6.6. Partial food system baseline assessment at the Vietnam benchmark sites. 2021 here 7.7. Diets, Food Choices and Environmental Impacts across an Urban-Rural Interface in Northern Vietnam: here 8.8. Food Systems Profile - Along a rural-urban transect in North Vietnam: here 9.9. Food Systems Profile: Moc Chau, The Rural Area - Vietnam: here 10.Food Systems Profile: Dong Anh, The peri-urban area - Vietnam: here 11. Food Systems Profile - Cau Giay, The Urban Area - Vietnam: here 12.Bottom-up participatory prioritization and identification of potential actions and interventions in three A4NH benchmark sites in Vietnam: here PART 2: Mapping to Alliance strategy and structure KEY CONTRIBUTORS Lever 1 - Healthy sustainable diets SDG TARGETS 2.3 - By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment 2.2 - By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons 2.4 - By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality CONTACT PERSON Huynh Thi Thanh Tuyen Country Coordinator in Vietnam, Alliance of Bioversity & CIAT | CGIAR t.huynh@cgiar.org © 2023. 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