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Vietnam active in Zero Hunger Action Programme

Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has asked for strict implementation of the Zero Hunger Action Programme of Vietnam by 2025 after it is approved by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
Vietnam active in Zero Hunger Action Programme ảnh 1Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung (Source: VNA)

Hanoi​ (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister TrinhDinh Dung has asked for strict implementation of the Zero Hunger Action Programme of Vietnam by2025 after it is approved by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

The Deputy PM, also Head of the NationalSteering Committee for the programme, asked ministries and sectors to organisethe implementation of the programme.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) will be responsiblefor building a working plan for the Committee in 2018.

It will also coordinate with the Ministries of Finance and Planning andInvestment to map out a financial plan for the programme and submit to the PMfor approval in the first quarter of 2018.

The programme was established by then Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in 2014 inresponse to the “Zero Hunger Challenge” of the United Nations, an initiative toeradicate hunger worldwide.

It targets ensuring enough food and nutrition for all citizens towards improvedphysical and intellectual health and towards fulfilling sustainable developmentgoals in food security and sustainable agricultural development.

Its specific targets are ensuring food and nutrition for people all yeararound, no malnutrition among children under two, developing a sustainable foodsystem, most small-scale farmers enjoying increases in productivity and incomeand no wastefulness and loss of food.  

The programme will help create an institutionalplatform to design and implement food security and nutrition policies measuresin a coordinated manner so as to have a sustained impact on national foodsecurity, poverty reduction and development of new rural areas.

Funds for the programme will be mobilised frominternational donors and allocations made to target programmes earmarked by theGovernment.
Vietnam has participated effectively in the “Zero HungerChallenge” and has gained achievements in human development, particularlypoverty reduction.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture andRural Development, the nation’s poverty rate reduced from 46.9 percent in1990-1992 to 9 percent in 2010-2012. The national plan aims at “basicallytackling poverty” by 2020.-VNA
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