The seed system landscape for improved forages in Vietnam: Threats, trends, and opportunities

Cattle farming has provided several benefits to Southeast Asian societies, such as draught power, food security, meat, milk, income generation, and status. In view of the growing demand for beef in response to the region's economic development, especially in countries like Vietnam, the sustainable i...

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Main Authors: Bravo, Aura, Le Thi, Thanh Huyen, Pazos Cardenas, Mateo, Nguyen, Thinh, Dao, Hang Thi, Atieno, Mary, Triana Ángel, Natalia, Peters, Michael, Burkart, Stefan
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155104
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author Bravo, Aura
Le Thi, Thanh Huyen
Pazos Cardenas, Mateo
Nguyen, Thinh
Dao, Hang Thi
Atieno, Mary
Triana Ángel, Natalia
Peters, Michael
Burkart, Stefan
author_browse Atieno, Mary
Bravo, Aura
Burkart, Stefan
Dao, Hang Thi
Le Thi, Thanh Huyen
Nguyen, Thinh
Pazos Cardenas, Mateo
Peters, Michael
Triana Ángel, Natalia
author_facet Bravo, Aura
Le Thi, Thanh Huyen
Pazos Cardenas, Mateo
Nguyen, Thinh
Dao, Hang Thi
Atieno, Mary
Triana Ángel, Natalia
Peters, Michael
Burkart, Stefan
author_sort Bravo, Aura
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description Cattle farming has provided several benefits to Southeast Asian societies, such as draught power, food security, meat, milk, income generation, and status. In view of the growing demand for beef in response to the region's economic development, especially in countries like Vietnam, the sustainable intensification of beef production emerges as a road map to improve communities' livelihoods from cattle raising. Multiple efforts by stakeholders have been made to introduce and disseminate innovative practices and technologies, such as improved planted forages, which focus on overcoming barriers regarding feed shortages year round and the low nutritional and productive quality of the cattle feed basket, among others. Although producers have responded to the adoption of promising materials encouragingly, scaling remains low due to limited knowledge of new materials and barriers in the supply system. Hence, this research aims at identifying business opportunities for improved planted forages to guarantee the accessibility and affordability of these technologies, mainly to smallholder women and men farmers and ethnic minorities in the remotest areas. Our contribution relies on constructing a strategy to scale technology dissemination among cattle farmers, farmers with land available to grow forages, and forage seed companies in an effort to establish a suitable environment for sustainable cattle intensification. To achieve this, our starting point is an analytical framework of a stakeholder-based seed system to conduct a market analysis in Vietnam, marking differences among three central cattle-producing regions: Northern Mountains, Central Coast, and Central Highlands. We collected primary and secondary information using the Five Forces Framework’s Porter for Industry Analysis to identify entry barriers, leading competitors in the forage seed industry, buyers and alternative feeds, suppliers, and industry threats. The actors interviewed belong to the stages of seed selection and innovation, seed production, distribution and dissemination, and variety release, protection and quality control. Although data is currently being analyzed, the highlights will illustrate the competitive environment of the improved forage industry in the country that the varieties currently promoted by multilateral organisations, government, and research entities face.
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spelling CGSpace1551042025-11-05T11:37:07Z The seed system landscape for improved forages in Vietnam: Threats, trends, and opportunities Bravo, Aura Le Thi, Thanh Huyen Pazos Cardenas, Mateo Nguyen, Thinh Dao, Hang Thi Atieno, Mary Triana Ángel, Natalia Peters, Michael Burkart, Stefan seed systems investigación agraria technology adoption farming systems research adopción de tecnología alimentación de ganado vacuno innovation scaling sistema de semillas escalamiento de la innovación cattle feeding Cattle farming has provided several benefits to Southeast Asian societies, such as draught power, food security, meat, milk, income generation, and status. In view of the growing demand for beef in response to the region's economic development, especially in countries like Vietnam, the sustainable intensification of beef production emerges as a road map to improve communities' livelihoods from cattle raising. Multiple efforts by stakeholders have been made to introduce and disseminate innovative practices and technologies, such as improved planted forages, which focus on overcoming barriers regarding feed shortages year round and the low nutritional and productive quality of the cattle feed basket, among others. Although producers have responded to the adoption of promising materials encouragingly, scaling remains low due to limited knowledge of new materials and barriers in the supply system. Hence, this research aims at identifying business opportunities for improved planted forages to guarantee the accessibility and affordability of these technologies, mainly to smallholder women and men farmers and ethnic minorities in the remotest areas. Our contribution relies on constructing a strategy to scale technology dissemination among cattle farmers, farmers with land available to grow forages, and forage seed companies in an effort to establish a suitable environment for sustainable cattle intensification. To achieve this, our starting point is an analytical framework of a stakeholder-based seed system to conduct a market analysis in Vietnam, marking differences among three central cattle-producing regions: Northern Mountains, Central Coast, and Central Highlands. We collected primary and secondary information using the Five Forces Framework’s Porter for Industry Analysis to identify entry barriers, leading competitors in the forage seed industry, buyers and alternative feeds, suppliers, and industry threats. The actors interviewed belong to the stages of seed selection and innovation, seed production, distribution and dissemination, and variety release, protection and quality control. Although data is currently being analyzed, the highlights will illustrate the competitive environment of the improved forage industry in the country that the varieties currently promoted by multilateral organisations, government, and research entities face. 2024-09-12 2024-10-02T19:38:42Z 2024-10-02T19:38:42Z Poster https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155104 en Open Access application/pdf Bravo, A.; Le Thi, T.H.; Pazos Cardenas, M.; Nguyen, T.; Dao, H.T.; Atieno, M.; Triana Ángel, N.; Peters, M.; Burkart, S. (2024) The seed system landscape for improved forages in Vietnam: Threats, trends, and opportunities. Poster prepared for Tropentag 2024: Explore opportunities for managing natural resources and a better life for all. 11–13 September 2024, Vienna, Austria.
spellingShingle seed systems
investigación agraria
technology adoption
farming systems research
adopción de tecnología
alimentación de ganado vacuno
innovation scaling
sistema de semillas
escalamiento de la innovación
cattle feeding
Bravo, Aura
Le Thi, Thanh Huyen
Pazos Cardenas, Mateo
Nguyen, Thinh
Dao, Hang Thi
Atieno, Mary
Triana Ángel, Natalia
Peters, Michael
Burkart, Stefan
The seed system landscape for improved forages in Vietnam: Threats, trends, and opportunities
title The seed system landscape for improved forages in Vietnam: Threats, trends, and opportunities
title_full The seed system landscape for improved forages in Vietnam: Threats, trends, and opportunities
title_fullStr The seed system landscape for improved forages in Vietnam: Threats, trends, and opportunities
title_full_unstemmed The seed system landscape for improved forages in Vietnam: Threats, trends, and opportunities
title_short The seed system landscape for improved forages in Vietnam: Threats, trends, and opportunities
title_sort seed system landscape for improved forages in vietnam threats trends and opportunities
topic seed systems
investigación agraria
technology adoption
farming systems research
adopción de tecnología
alimentación de ganado vacuno
innovation scaling
sistema de semillas
escalamiento de la innovación
cattle feeding
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155104
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