Enhancing smallholder livelihoods in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam through improving the sustainability of coffee and black pepper farming systems and value chains - V-SCOPE (2021-2024)

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  • PROJECT NAME: Enhancing smallholder livelihoods in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam through improving the sustainability of coffee and black pepper farming systems and value chains (V-SCOPE)
  • DURATION: 02/2021 - 09/2024
  • DONOR & FUNDING: Australian Centre for International Agriculture Research (ACIAR)
  • PARTNERS:

- World Agroforestry
- Western Highlands Agriculture and Forestry Science Institute
- Pepper Research and Development Centre
- International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
- French Centre of International Research on Agriculture for Development (CIRAD)
- Deakin University
- The University of Sydney
- Plant Protection Research Institute
- Tay Nguyen University
- Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural development (IPSARD)
- Institute of Agricultural Planning and Projection

  • PRIVATE SECTOR: Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE), McCormick Global Ingredients Limited (MGIL), ECOM, SIMEXCO DAKLAK, PEARL
  • MALICA PARTNERS: CIRAD, IPSARD, CIAT
  • PROJECT SITES: Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Dak Nong
  • DESCRIPTION:

Objectives

The project aims to enhance smallholders’ livelihoods in the Central Highlands, including vulnerable populations, through improving the sustainability of coffee and black pepper farming systems and value chains.

Specific objectives

Overall, the project intends to contribute to the following:

  1. Improving food security and reducing poverty among smallholders and rural communities by providing recommendations to key organizations and actors involved in delivering programs in the Central Highlands on how rural livelihoods’ trajectories are responding to various interventions and farming approaches.
  1. Managing natural resources and producing food more sustainably by developing safer soil-borne pest and disease management practices, resource-use efficiency methods and coffee/pepper improved agroecological zoning and targeted scaling of good agricultural practices that will assist Government agencies and private-sector programs both at farm and landscape levels.
  2. Fostering more inclusive agri-food market chains by working with the private sector and farmers to design, assess and develop value-chain innovations and models that simultaneously address end-market requirements, the needs of lead firms and of rural producers.

Work packages

  • WP 1: Generating control methods of soil-borne pests and diseases in farms and nurseries and improving soil health in coffee and pepper farms
  • WP 2: Co-designing good practices and integrated farming systems within private partner farmer networks
  • WP 3: Co-designing local value-chain improvements and enhancing national public-private dialogue
  • WP 4: Generating knowledge and tools to support targeted scaling and interventions at landscape level and strategic long-term planning

Expected outcomes/outputs

  • Improved control technique of soil-borne pests and diseases applied in farms and nurseries
  • Pilots assessed, validated, and widely shared with private and public actors
  • Enhanced local research and extension capacity
  • Scaling out planned for broad-scale adoption of the pilots with private and public partners
  • Enhanced policy environment and public-private dialogues at local and national levels
  • More inclusive private and public interventions and strengthened capacity to operate at landscape level