…. well technically not quite, but the bulk of the work is done.
The last few weeks have been extremely hectic, as I tried to complete my research in time for the deadline date. This having passed, and my paper submitted, I now have some time to update you all on my progress. I do apologise for the long time lag between posts, but I will try to make it up to you.
The final research title of the project was: Dietary Change Dynamics and Resilience of Vietnamese Food Systems to Biophysical and Economic Shocks. As I explained in my previous blog posts, this was a difficult topic for me. I had to study the nuance behind resilience, dietary change, and shocks and then link the to Viet Nam’s food system in a manner that made sense. So I managed it, or at least it made sense to me!
So, this is an introduction post before I reveal to you the final results of the project to just wean you in. As I indicated in blog 3 resilience is a multifaceted concept. In this paper, I created a system framework encompassing factors to consider in a resilience assessment. This was based on previous work by Béné, 2020; FAO, 2016; Karan et al., 2023; and Meuwissen et al., 2019 but I felt like a framework needed to offer more. Please feel free to examine this and propose any critiques you may deem relevant. It was intended to be part of a more integrative process for resilience assessment. We wanted to include shocks that negatively affect the resilience of a system, assets within communities that have a positive effect, consistency metrics and supply chains, and linking trade to resiliency. See it below!
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Let me know if you feel like this is any good! Thanks and talk tomorrow!