Using the example of food supply in Vietnam, this paper describes how a centrally planned system gave way to a successful competitive market in terms of price and supply effectiveness. It also shows that this evolution brought new problems, such as poor performance of some commodity chains in ensuring satisfying food quality, food safety and price stability. It appears that traders do not feel equipped to cope with these problems and are demanding more public intervention. The paper argues that solving these problems might take more than just more state intervention. It builds on recent and on-going field studies on marketing problems in the Red River Delta undertaken a collaboration project between the Centre [de Coopération] International...
Changes and Characteristics of food demand and supply and food policy and their relations with the w...
Access to safe and healthy food is a crucial element of food security. In Vietnam the safety of dail...
World market prices of rice have been subject to large fluctuations in recent years. In mid 2008, pr...
Local food systems in Vietnam have a long history, reflected by the high number and abundance of tra...
Vietnam opened its doors to a more marketized economy in the late 1980s. Rural producers have, for t...
In the last decades Vietnam has become a major supplier in the world's rice market. This position is...
This article analyses the spatial price differences in the rice market of the Mekong River Delta to ...
In all countries, demand for quality food is on the increase. Governments and multinationals are pro...
With the state withdrawing from controlling the food markets in Vietnam, the decision-makers and res...
In many developed countries private arrangements have emerged in food governance. Following limited ...
Recent economic, political and demographic changes in Vietnam have led to a growing urban demand for...
The development of supermarkets in Vietnam, as in other emerging countries, goes along with an incre...
The development of supermarkets in Vietnam, as in other emerging countries, is accompanied by increa...
The study analyzes the extent, pattern, and degree of the spatial integration of rice markets in Vie...
This article analyses the spatial price differences in the rice market of the Mekong River Delta to ...
Changes and Characteristics of food demand and supply and food policy and their relations with the w...
Access to safe and healthy food is a crucial element of food security. In Vietnam the safety of dail...
World market prices of rice have been subject to large fluctuations in recent years. In mid 2008, pr...
Local food systems in Vietnam have a long history, reflected by the high number and abundance of tra...
Vietnam opened its doors to a more marketized economy in the late 1980s. Rural producers have, for t...
In the last decades Vietnam has become a major supplier in the world's rice market. This position is...
This article analyses the spatial price differences in the rice market of the Mekong River Delta to ...
In all countries, demand for quality food is on the increase. Governments and multinationals are pro...
With the state withdrawing from controlling the food markets in Vietnam, the decision-makers and res...
In many developed countries private arrangements have emerged in food governance. Following limited ...
Recent economic, political and demographic changes in Vietnam have led to a growing urban demand for...
The development of supermarkets in Vietnam, as in other emerging countries, goes along with an incre...
The development of supermarkets in Vietnam, as in other emerging countries, is accompanied by increa...
The study analyzes the extent, pattern, and degree of the spatial integration of rice markets in Vie...
This article analyses the spatial price differences in the rice market of the Mekong River Delta to ...
Changes and Characteristics of food demand and supply and food policy and their relations with the w...
Access to safe and healthy food is a crucial element of food security. In Vietnam the safety of dail...
World market prices of rice have been subject to large fluctuations in recent years. In mid 2008, pr...