Food system transitions in Vietnam: The case of pork and vegetable networks

Vietnamese food systems have experienced a transition process since the late 1980s Đổi mới reforms. This paper examines the historical and ongoing transitions of pork and vegetable networks, using the Multi-Level Perspective (MLP), the Multi-Pattern Approach (MPA) and insights from food systems rese...

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Autores principales: Nguyen-Minh, Quoc, Prins, Heleen, Oosterveer, Peter, Brouwer, Inge D., Vignola, Raffaele
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131726
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author Nguyen-Minh, Quoc
Prins, Heleen
Oosterveer, Peter
Brouwer, Inge D.
Vignola, Raffaele
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Nguyen-Minh, Quoc
Oosterveer, Peter
Prins, Heleen
Vignola, Raffaele
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Prins, Heleen
Oosterveer, Peter
Brouwer, Inge D.
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description Vietnamese food systems have experienced a transition process since the late 1980s Đổi mới reforms. This paper examines the historical and ongoing transitions of pork and vegetable networks, using the Multi-Level Perspective (MLP), the Multi-Pattern Approach (MPA) and insights from food systems research. Our findings show that there was a shift from collective and self-subsistent farming to commercial small-scale farming in the late 1980s, and a rapid institutionalisation of smallholders and wet markets in the early 1990s. We argue that the current slow transition of the smallholder food regime towards improved food safety and standardisation has been locked in by the strong alignments of actors, practices and cultural values that support small-scale, fragmented production and distribution. The study suggests that those practices, values, and the needs and interests of smallholder producers and food consumers should be carefully considered when implementing transition agendas toward food safety, security, and sustainability.
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spelling CGSpace1317262025-10-26T12:52:39Z Food system transitions in Vietnam: The case of pork and vegetable networks Nguyen-Minh, Quoc Prins, Heleen Oosterveer, Peter Brouwer, Inge D. Vignola, Raffaele food systems pork smallholders sustainability vegetables food safety nutrition retail markets Vietnamese food systems have experienced a transition process since the late 1980s Đổi mới reforms. This paper examines the historical and ongoing transitions of pork and vegetable networks, using the Multi-Level Perspective (MLP), the Multi-Pattern Approach (MPA) and insights from food systems research. Our findings show that there was a shift from collective and self-subsistent farming to commercial small-scale farming in the late 1980s, and a rapid institutionalisation of smallholders and wet markets in the early 1990s. We argue that the current slow transition of the smallholder food regime towards improved food safety and standardisation has been locked in by the strong alignments of actors, practices and cultural values that support small-scale, fragmented production and distribution. The study suggests that those practices, values, and the needs and interests of smallholder producers and food consumers should be carefully considered when implementing transition agendas toward food safety, security, and sustainability. 2023-06 2023-09-01T18:26:35Z 2023-09-01T18:26:35Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131726 en Open Access Elsevier Nguyen-Minh, Quoc; Prins, Heleen; Oosterveer, Peter; Brouwer, Inge D.; and Vignola, Raffaele. 2023. Food system transitions in Vietnam: The case of pork and vegetable networks. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 47(June 2023): 100716. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2023.100716
spellingShingle food systems
pork
smallholders
sustainability
vegetables
food safety
nutrition
retail markets
Nguyen-Minh, Quoc
Prins, Heleen
Oosterveer, Peter
Brouwer, Inge D.
Vignola, Raffaele
Food system transitions in Vietnam: The case of pork and vegetable networks
title Food system transitions in Vietnam: The case of pork and vegetable networks
title_full Food system transitions in Vietnam: The case of pork and vegetable networks
title_fullStr Food system transitions in Vietnam: The case of pork and vegetable networks
title_full_unstemmed Food system transitions in Vietnam: The case of pork and vegetable networks
title_short Food system transitions in Vietnam: The case of pork and vegetable networks
title_sort food system transitions in vietnam the case of pork and vegetable networks
topic food systems
pork
smallholders
sustainability
vegetables
food safety
nutrition
retail markets
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131726
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