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This third guideline provides detailed, step-by-step guidance to help provincial authorities and stakeholders develop food system profiles — a critical tool to support the implementation of the National Action Plan on Food Systems Transformation (NAP-FST) by 2030.

This guideline builds on lessons from CGIAR's research and the ASEAN-CGIAR Innovate for Food Regional Program. It is intended as a living document and will evolve with stakeholder feedback throughout the NAP-FST implementation process up to 2030.

The Guidelines for Food Systems Dialogues at Sub-National Levels in Vietnam provide a practical and adaptable framework to support provincial actors in designing and facilitating inclusive food systems dialogues. These dialogues aim to co-develop Provincial Implementation Plans (PIPs) as part of the implementation of the National Action Plan on Food Systems Transformation towards Transparency, Responsibility and Sustainability (NAP-FST) to 2030.

In recent years, numerous examples of food system dashboards have been developed with the goal of offering users the opportunity to monitor or assess (their) national food systems.

Traditional wet markets are the main source of fresh food and the largest source of daily nutrient intake for citizens of Hanoi. Nevertheless, due to the lack of traceability and sales registration systems, food flows within these markets remain largely invisible. This makes it challenging to assess the impact of shocks, such as pandemics, on these markets.

A new food system indicator framework and monitoring architecture is presented to track food system transformation towards global development, health and sustainability goals. Five themes are considered:

Like many countries, the Vietnamese government and international aid organizations in Vietnam have considerable interest in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, which are inextricably linked with sustainable diets. The authors grounded the development of our conceptual framework in a Vietnamese context from the outset of the study, while also drawing from the scientific literature to incorporate the breadth of knowledge and theory available on sustainable diets.

The protein shift, or transition, entails a reduction in the production and consumption of animal-source foods, and an increase in plant-based foods and alternative proteins, at a global level. The shift is primarily motivated by the need to minimise the impact of the food system on social-ecological systems.

While progress has been made recently in understanding food systems per se, much less is known about policies around those food systems.

Using data collected from a cross-sectional study in Moc Chau, Dong Anh and Cau Giay districts in Vietnam, this report aims to elucidate specific components of local Vietnamese food systems along a rural to urban transect focusing specifically on (i) diets, (ii) nutrition status (anthropometry), (iii) consumer behavior, (iv) food environment, and (v) food flows. The results are summarized as below: