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Rikolto in Vietnam is seeking a qualified professional for the position of Programme Manager for the period 2019-2021.

*Rikolto was honored to be one of the organizations awarded the Certificates of Appreciation by the Da Nang People's Committee in a year-end event with foreigners, international organizations, and Vietnamese working for foreign organizations that have made significant contributions to the city on in 2019. *

Piloting only 2 hectares of SRP-compliant rice plantation in Thap Muoi district, Dong Thap province, Mr. Nguyen Van Hung has seen a promising direction for sustainable rice production in his homeland with Rikolto’s support.

Between March and August 2019, three journalists from the digital platform Eos Tracé visited partner cities of Rikolto's Food Smart Cities programme. This book tells their stories from 9 cities in Vietnam, Belgium, Tanzania, Indonesia, Ecuador, Honduras and Nicaragua.

We are currently seeking a Vietnamese qualified professional for the position of Administrative Officer. This incumbent will be based in the Regional Office in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Rikolto in Vietnam is looking for a Finance Intern.

Since 2018, Dang Xa cooperative in Hanoi has been using a Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) to guarantee that its vegetables are produced according to Good Agricultural Practices. Thanks to PGS, farmers from Dang Xa have been able to increase their access to markets and to better organise their production.

On 22 March 2019, the City of Da Nang in central Vietnam adopted its Food Smart City development strategy for 2020-2030 with a vision towards 2045. The strategy is the outcome of a fruitful collaboration between Da Nang’s Food Safety Management Authority, Vietnam National University of Agriculture and Rikolto.

Vegetables farmers nowadays tend to use biological pesticides which are less poisonous. However, there still remain a small number of farmers using highly-poisonous pesticides due to the fact that they are not fully aware of the effects and still use them as a habit

The People’s Committee of Danang city issued Decision 995/QĐ-UBND dated 05 March, 2019 approving the vegetable chain development projects by Rikolto.

At the end of February, 2019, a two-day workshop was organized by Da Nang Food Safety Management Authority, Vietnam University of Agriculture (VNUA) and Rikolto to develop a strategy for Da Nang to become a food-smart city.

In an effort to support farmer organizations to access to the market, Rikolto in Vietnam, on behalf of our partners, is looking for a researcher (or a group of researchers) to conduct a market research identifying barriers and opportunities in accessing the safe vegetable market as well as develop a feasible marketing plan for our target safe vegetable cooperatives in this project.

We are currently seeking a qualified professional for the position of Temporary Vegetable Programme Officer for a duration of 6 months. This incumbent will be based in the Regional Office in Hanoi, Vietnam with frequent travel to the Programme’s target locations.

We are looking for a (team of) journalist(s) willing to travel locally around Da Nang and Hanoi to document stories in relation to food smart cities in Hanoi and Da Nang. The stories will be disseminated locally and nationally in Vietnam, and internationally as part of Rikolto’s International Food Smart Cities Communication Cycle.

What will we eat tomorrow? Vegetables are among the most consumed food in Vietnam. And safe vegetable is also one of the two programme themes in Rikolto in Vietnam’s core work within 5 years’ time from 2017 to 2021 to promote Sustainable Inclusive Agriculture Value chains.

To understand better how the rice programme with its strategy is aiming to help the rice farming in Vietnam currently, We carry out a brief in-house interview with Dr Minh Thi Thai – our Regional director, as well as Rice programme coordinator for Rikolto in Vietnam – about the meaning behind Rikolto Rice Value proposition.

Rikolto Rice Cluster works within rice value chains in 9 countries: Indonesia, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali and Vietnam. Rikolto's rice sector staff in these 9 countries meet within the "Rice Cluster" to encourage peer-to-peer learning and monitoring across regions, and to seek knowledge exchange between partners and other rice sectors.

Integrated farming models, which combine rice cultivation and aquaculture (either fish or shrimp), have been implemented for decades in the Mekong Delta. This model enables the sustainable intensification of food production while diversifying income and decreasing farmers’ vulnerability to crop failure.

Inclusive business is key intervention strategy based on the ‘win-win plus’ principle. Rikolto and our implementing partners facilitate the participation of and strengthen the benefits for all partners involved in business relations.

We are currently looking for a Vietnamese national for the position of Finance Intern based in the Regional Office in Hanoi, Vietnam.

We are currently seeking a qualified professional for the position of Project Officer for the project ‘Increasing fruit and vegetable intake of low-income populations in Vietnam and Nigeria through food system innovations’ for the period 2019-2021. The deadline to submit applications is 31 October 2018.

As part of the project “Capitalisation of Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) experiences in Vietnam for upscaling and institutionalisation”, supported by the Agroecology Learning Alliance in Southeast Asia, Rikolto developed a trainer’s toolbox to encourage more practitioners to support the development of PGS in their area.

In July 2018, Hanoi’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and Rikolto started a new collaboration to setup PGS for safe vegetables in various locations around Hanoi. Supported by the Conservation, Food and Health Foundation, this project aims to build evidence of the benefits of PGS in order to replicate the model across Hanoi.

We are recruiting a Junior Fundraising and Communications Officer to coordinate and implement fundraising and communication activities at Rikolto in Vietnam. The deadline to apply is 20 September 2018.

We are recruiting a qualified professional for the position of Administrative Assistant for our regional office in Hanoi. The deadline to apply is 6 September 2018

On 30 July, Vietnam National University of Agriculture and Rikolto organised the workshop “10 years of Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) in Vietnam: Sharing lessons and introducing a new PGS training toolbox”. The event concluded a one-year project funded by the Agroecology Learning Alliance in Southeast Asia to capitalise PGS experiences in Vietnam for upscaling and institutionalisation.

What is PGS? How does it work? What has it achieved? What lessons have we learned? This policy brief answers all those questions and more and makes a series of recommendations about what policy-makers can do to support the development of PGS in Vietnam.

We are looking for a (team of) consultant(s) to design and assist the establishment of a rice-fish farming system that would benefit women and young labourers in Tan Tuyen commune, An Giang. Deadline: 17 August 2018.

As part of a capitalisation project on Participatory Guarantee Systems in Vietnam, Vietnam National University of Agriculture and Rikolto investigated all existing PGS in Vietnam to analyse how PGS could be improved. This case study looks at the factors that contribute to making Thanh Xuan intergroup, established by the Danish NGO ADDA, one of the most successful and sustainable PGS in Vietnam.

Over the 10 years of their existence in Vietnam, Participatory Guarantee Systems have encountered many successes but also sometimes serious struggles. This case study dives into the challenges experiences by one PGS in northern Vietnam and proposes recommendations on how to avoid some of the common pitfalls.