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STRATEGY FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH COLLABORATION OF ACIAR IN VIETNAM 2017–2027

The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) has supported research collaboration in agriculture, forestry and fisheries with Vietnam since 1993, valued at A$100million across 170 projects. Vietnam is now in the middle of a major transition from lower to middle income status, but still faces many challenges to ensure sustainable and equitable growth. In response ACIAR and its counterparts in Vietnam have developed a ten year strategy for research collaboration (2017-2027) to address the increasingly complex problems and opportunities facing smallholder agriculture, fisheries and forestry systems in Vietnam.

This Strategy acknowledges how the relationship between ACIAR and Vietnam has grown from donor-recipient to partnership, to coinvestment and possibly, through this period, to trilateral collaboration. The Strategy expresses the desire of both parties to join with the private sector, wherever possible, to catalyse opportunities for the rural and urban poor through inclusive agribusiness systems. It also highlights a strong focus on transformational opportunities for women in research, agribusiness systems and onfarm.

This Strategy not only establishes the most important priorities for research collaboration between ACIAR and Vietnam but also reaffirms the importance of building research capacity through well-designed projects set in the context of longterm partnerships.

Towards the end of the implementation of this strategy, both parties will commission a review of the partnerships, the strategy and its outcomes to inform decisions about future collaboration after 2027.

In this strategy, the term ‘agriculture’ should be read to include crops, livestock, forestry and fisheries and “agricultural research” includes the supporting areas of research that are essential to developing equitable and sustainable livelihoods in those sectors (especially policy, agribusiness, natural resource management and social science research).

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