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| Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung |
The Deputy PM, also Head of the
National Steering Committee for the program, asked ministries and sectors to organize
the implementation of the program.
The Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural Development (MARD) will be responsible for building a working plan for
the Committee in 2018.
It will also coordinate with the
Ministries of Finance and Planning and Investment to map out a financial plan
for the program and submit to the PM for approval in the first quarter of 2018.
The program was established by then
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in 2014 in response to the “Zero Hunger
Challenge” of the United Nations, an initiative to eradicate hunger worldwide.
It targets ensuring enough food and
nutrition for all citizens towards improved physical and intellectual health
and towards fulfilling sustainable development goals in food security and
sustainable agricultural development.
Its specific targets are ensuring
food and nutrition for people all year around, no malnutrition among children
under two, developing a sustainable food system, most small-scale farmers
enjoying increases in productivity and income and no wastefulness and loss of
food.
The program will help create an
institutional platform to design and implement food security and nutrition
policies measures in a coordinated manner so as to have a sustained impact on
national food security, poverty reduction and development of new rural areas.
Funds for the program will be mobilized
from international donors and allocations made to target programs earmarked by
the Government.
Vietnam has participated effectively in the
“Zero Hunger Challenge” and has gained achievements in human development,
particularly poverty reduction.
According to the Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development, the nation’s poverty rate reduced from 46.9
percent in 1990-1992 to 9 percent in 2010-2012. The national plan aims at
“basically tackling poverty” by 2020.
Source: VNA