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Hanoi Stakeholder Meeting
Hanoi,
Vietnam, 4-5 June 2000
See summary of
meeting activities
The meeting was attended by 24 national and international
participants representing four Vietnamese
institutions, six International Agricultural
Research Centers, FAO, two northern universities and
two international NGOs. A paper prepared by the Global
coordinator was circulated as a basis for
discussing both the conceptual framework and the
organizational arrangements of the system-wide
program.
Conceptual framework development
The first day consisted of self-introductions by
participants, a presentation on the conceptual
framework and an open forum on the framework. Based
on that discussion, there was a division of
participants into two smaller groups during the
afternoon: Sustainable Peri-urban Agriculture and
Food Security. This division reflected the
polarization of discussion around the centrality of
poverty alleviation in the framework in relation to
an alternative goal of sustaining urban agriculture
as a source of income for producers and nutritious
food for the cities. The two groups came up with
very different reports: the sustainable urban
agriculture group presented a detailed listing of
key areas relating primarily to UA as a commercial
venture with attention to the negative environmental
impacts. The food security group ended up, after a
rather difficult small group session, identifying
the many constraints affecting household food
security, with the assumption, not fully worked out,
that UA can address those constraints.
On the basis of these outputs, which drew on the original
framework but raised many new aspects, the framework
was reworked overnight and a very much revised set
of ideas presented to the group the following
morning. The most important element of the revision
was a matrix, in place of the flow diagram which was
the center piece of the original conceptual
framework. See table below:
Table 1: SIUPA Research Framework, 2000
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Household level research
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Institutional level research
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Policy level research
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Perishable/ processed production and supply
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KEY
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
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Livelihoods
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Agricultural/non-agricultural resource use
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Underlying
the framework is the fundamental goal of urban
poverty alleviation included within the project
document and reflected in the original conceptual
framework. In the course of discussions, it became
clear that the intermediate goal of the project is
to contribute to the viability and expansion of a
sustainable urban agriculture.
Summary of meeting activities
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