Vision
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Transforming smallholder pig value chains in Vietnam
“ A thriving and inclusive pig sector that is environmentally
sustainable, efficient, and consumer friendly.”
Interventions and program actions
Animal health
• Assess pig disease burden in smallholder pig production systems.
• Identify risk pathways, control points, and potential risk mitigation
options related to pig health constraints at producer level.
• Identify and test incentive-based interventions to mitigate risk of pig
diseases in selected pork value chains
Feeds and feeding
• Develop options for balanced pig feed rations based primarily on locally
produced feed resources, crop residues, agro-industrial processing by-
products.
• Develop easily adopted or adapted technologies for conserving and
storing feed resources produced on-farm.
• Evaluate alternative models for feed input service provision to
smallholders.
• Partnership with development partners and extension services in
adaptation and scaling out of cost-effective feeding strategies in
smallholder pig systems.
Breeds and breeding
• Develop and evaluate appropriate breeding programs and tools for low-
input pig systems.
• Develop strategies for scaling up of knowledge and understanding of the
value of FAnGR of pigs.
Food safety
• Assess cost of pork-borne diseases from pork consumption.
• Risk assessment of selected biological and chemical pathogens.
• Identify and pilot test feasible options for upgrading that reduce food
safety risk, sustain smallholder market participation, and enhance value
chain performance.
• Identify and pilot test best incentive-based practices for meeting
demand for pork safety and quality attributes that are appropriate in
smallholder context.
Environment
• Assess environmental impacts of pig sector growth
Cross-cutting: Policies, institutions, markets, gender
• Assess gender differences in technology uptake, evaluate impacts of
gender-targeted interventions
• Policy advocacy strategies for informing policy debate and engendering
pro-poor policy environment for pig sector development
• Characterize linkages between pig market growth and eco-system
sustainability
Outcomes
• Capacity developed among partners to apply tested models for
smallholder pig system that demonstrate increased productivity,
reduced risk, and higher and more reliable income.
• Uptake of productivity enhancing technologies, strategies,
innovations for improved pig nutrition, breeding and health.
• Market actors behaving so as to reduce risks, respond to
incentives, enable compliance with changing demand and
standards.
• Capacity developed among targeted research partners.
• Expanded market opportunities for smallholder pig producers.
• Learning alliance functioning for continued R4D for pig systems.
• Improved opportunities for income generation by women in pig
production and marketing.
Partners
Main research for development issues
 Productivity and associated natural resource management
implications of intensification
 Market access for inputs and outputs
 Food safety concerns
 Value chain performance
 Appropriate institutional and policy adjustments required to
jumpstart the change process to achieve development goals
• Hanoi University of Agriculture
• Hanoi School of Public Health
• CIAT
• CIRAD
• ACIAR
• Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
• Development partners (WB-LIFSAP, Heifer)