Assessment and policy recommendations

This Review, undertaken in close co-operation with the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), assesses the performance of Vietnamese agriculture over the last two decades, evaluates Vietnamese agricultural policy reforms and provides recommendations to address key challenges in the future. The evaluation is based on the OECD Committee for Agriculture’s approach that agriculture policy should be evidence-based and carefully designed and implemented to support productivity, competitiveness and sustainability, while avoiding unnecessary distortions to production decisions and to trade. Conducted in partnership with the OECD Investment Committee, the Review comprises a special chapter highlighting key challenges to be addressed to improve the investment climate in agriculture, drawing from the OECD Policy Framework for Investment in Agriculture.