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The Issue

A previous ILRI project funded by ACIAR (LPS/2006/063) comprehensively characterised the smallholder pig sector in Vietnam. Pork makes up 75% of meat consumed in Vietnam and its production delivers substantial benefits to the smallholders who supply 84% of the market. However, pork contains high levels of pathogens and there is growing concern among the public and policy-makers to manage food safety and animal disease in pork value chains. The profitability and functioning of those chains are extremely vulnerable to breakdowns in food safety. Preliminary analysis by LPS/2006/063 of food safety and risks in these chains indicated that smallholder pig production systems can be not only efficient but safe providing that appropriate risk management approaches are developed and implemented.

The Opportunity

While Vietnamese policy makers currently favour industrial pork production systems based on perceptions that industrialisation will improve productivity, profitability, and food safety, there is strong interest in better understanding food safety and health of producers in smallholder pig value chains and developing, testing and promoting incentive-based risk management approaches that are pro-poor.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the project will address three research questions:

  1. What are the human health risks and economic costs of pork-borne diseases in smallholder pig value chains in Vietnam? What are the critical points / opportunities for risk management?
  2. What is the added utility of risk-based approaches to food safety and pork-borne disease (that focus on human health impacts) compared with current hazard-based approaches (based on presence of pathogens in pork)?
  3. What is the most appropriate role for incentive-based innovations in improving management of human and animal health risks in these smallholder pig value chains?

By generating evidence that leads to more successful and pro-poor management of the risks to human and animal health currently hampering the pig sector in Vietnam, this project aims to improve participation in and incomes from smallholder pig value chains

Goal and Objectives

The goal of the project is therefore to improve the livelihoods of rural and urban poor in Vietnam through improved opportunities and incomes from pig value chains as a result of reduced risks associated with pork-borne diseases.

The project will achieve this through 3 objectives:

Objective 1: To assess impacts of pork-borne diseases on human health and the livestock sector and identify critical points/opportunities for risk management

Objective 2: To develop and test incentive-based innovations to improve management of human and animal health risks in smallholder pig value chains.

Objective 3: To sustainably improve capacity to assess and manage risks in smallholder pig value chains by engaging stakeholders and co-generating evidence.

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Trạng thái: 
Phê duyệt
Kinh phí đề tài: 
8 100 000 000.00
Ngày bắt đầu: 
Tháng 6, 2012
Ngày kết thúc: 
Tháng 4, 2017