Improving livelihoods in Myanmar and Vietnam through sustainable and inclusive vegetable value chains – Safe vegetable project

Objectives

This project aims to improve farmer incomes and livelihoods by developing sustainable and inclusive vegetable value chains in Vietnam and Myanmar. Therefore, the project intends to: 1) identify new market opportunities for smallholder vegetables produced under quality assurance systems; 2) develop sustainable and inclusive smallholder farmer group governance model(s); 3) develop sustainable and inclusive smallholder vegetable value chain models and quality assurance systems; 4) scale out and evaluate the smallholder vegetable value chain models and quality assurance systems to new farmers and villages.

This project follows and builds upon the results of the previous Aciar funded project Improved market engagement for counter-seasonal vegetable producers in north-western Vietnam’. This new phase will endeavor to ensure the scaling out of the current dynamics in Vietnam by working in new sites with new producer groups and by producing a detailed evaluation of the current model with a focus on ensuring sustainability; and to apply the acquired experience and knowledge in Vietnam to identify, develop and assess safe vegetable value chain pilots in Myanmar.

The overall project output will be the framework and approach necessary to develop safe, high-quality vegetable chains involving smallholders in developing countries.