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6. HOW TO DEVELOP A FOOD SYSTEM PROFILE?

This food system profile draws on insights and experiences gained from developing
research along a rural-urban transect in Northern Vietnam, in previous work carried out
by the CGIAR Collaborative Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health
(A4NH) (Huynh, 2019; Huynh et al., 2021). It also incorporates insights and experiences
from Intervention Package 8: Food systems transformation for more nutritious and
healthy diets under the ASEAN-CGIAR Innovate for Food Regional Program. This
package includes a food system dashboard based on a methodological framework
outlined for developing participatory food system country profiles for low- and middle-
income countries (Béné et al., 2022).
The guidelines involve seven steps to develop a food system profile (Figure 2).

Figure 2. Steps needed to develop a food system profile at the sub-national levels

Formulate Review Review Extract
a plan indicators data sources indicators

Step 1: Step 2: Step 3: Step 4:
Establish the Provincial Identify and List available Extract and
Inter-Sectoral Working select indicator datasets and prepare
Group (PWG) groups and reports the initial
and formulate a relevant indicators
comprehensive plan indicators
for developing the food
system profile

Complete Validate and finalize Formulate
the profile indicators a plan

Step 7: Step 6: Step 5:

Final step to compile The second plenary The first plenary
and present the food technical meeting with technical meeting
system profile the PWG, the NSG and with the PWG, the
extended stakeholders National Inter-Sectoral
to validate and finalize Supporting Group
selected indicators and (NSG) and extended
the current state of the stakeholders to agree
local food system scoring criteria, review
indicators, assign
scores and select
suitable indicators

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