A Research on Vietnam's Food Security

• Main Authors: Tsai,Ching-Yao, 蔡慶耀
• Other Authors: Yen,Chih-hung
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/21806479424790938363

碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 東南亞學系 === 103 === Abstract Vietnam, with a population of around 91 million, has few arable lands for each person. Without sufficient arable lands, and with the rise of sea-level and the change of climate, Vietnam suffers from the salinization of soils and its impacts on rice production. Although Vietnam's economic performance has been brilliant and gradually met the needs of people on food in recent years, with the increase in population and the decrease of land resources, whether Vietnam has plenty of rices available for export has been the concern of rice importing countries. The main concern of this research is food security of Vietnam. This research discusses food resources, land policies, the change of Vietnam's foreign policy in 1990, its rice export and its trade with the world. Finally, the research tries to evaluate whether the food security of Vietnam is fine by looking at the practice of policies of rice production and rice export. The research is carried out based on the analysis of second-hand literatures. Different perspectives have been considered in order to have a better understanding of the situations of Vietnam. The main findings of this research are as follows: (1) since 1988, Vietnam has achieved food self-sufficiency, and become the second largest rice exporter in the world. (2) In 2012, while the Vietnamese government completing the temporary purchase target of rice reserves plan - about 1 million tons - the stock ratio is not less than 18% of the food security level in accordance with the United Nation standards. (3) Vietnam always pays attention to food production, and develops the national plans of food security in order to ensure national food security. (4) There remain some problems: (i) About 3% of the population lives in poverty in Vietnam. (ii) More and more arable lands have been transformed for growing economic crops, influencing the total rice output of Vietnam. (iii) How to increase rice production per unit area? This is the current issue for the Vietnamese government. Keywords: Vietnamese food security, Vietnamese rice exports, food security