Viet Nam

The project will demonstrate the potential for integrated, inclusive, and sustainable management approaches in a rapidly developing and trade-oriented economy that address the underlying drivers of environmental degradation. In addition to integrated landscapes and biodiversity conservation, the project will include public-private sector partnerships, promoting access to credit and de-risking of investments and financial services which maximize integrity — traceability and transparency — and sustainability — economic, social and environmental — of rice value chains. This project will also encourage development of “sustainable rice contract” models to satisfy heterogeneous needs of different segments of buyers — food companies, millers, exporters — and farmers. Additionally, the project will leverage the private sector by developing locally appropriate and equitable incentives that link small holder outputs to local and global markets for sustainably sourced commodities from sustainably managed landscapes. This project intends to engage public sector actors through supporting national and sub-national policy and legal frameworks for sustainable rice landscapes and value chains, as well as through outlining the roles and responsibilities of a multi-stakeholder coordination mechanism at those scales. It will also assess existing incentive mechanisms that encourage public investments in sustainable rice production and support development of a national framework to link smallholder farmers to recognized sustainability standards for rice and other commodity production.