The enactment of Decision 80 in 2002 by the Government of Viet Nam has attempted to increase the use of contracts to improve procurement and efficiency in the rural economy. The Government has attempted to provide incentives for parties to engage in contract arrangements by providing favorable access to finance, land, and infrastructure. However, for contracts to be successfully employed in Viet Nam, several key areas will need to be improved.

A team from the Center for Agricultural Policy (CAP) has worked with M4P1 to conduct field work, interviews and desk research in order to generate a set of 30 actual case studies of contract farming linking small scale producers with processors. The case studies cover a wide variety of products and organizational types, and a variety of geographic settings (North, Center and South/ Peri-Urban, flatland and mountains). The case studies also include both successful and unsuccessful examples of contract farming. This is in order to provide a balanced view of the actual situation, and also to enable a wide range of lessons learned to be drawn out.

The CAP team has completed the fieldwork for the case studies, held a workshop to gather feedbacks from stakeholders and prepared a report on 30 case studies. This book is the final product of these research efforts. Click here to download it in English (4MB) | Vietnamese (4MB).