Tag: crises

This last month has been a particularly frustrating yet also interesting research period for me. Overall, I have spent much of my time reading relevant papers that I might use as references and also doing my data analysis. To remind you all, I am looking at Viet Nam and its state of food security from…

This morning I have been reading a recently published paper by the UN FAO titled: ‘Guidelines to increase the resilience of agricultural supply chains‘. This incredibly interesting publication details the need for the global food system to be increasingly able to recover from shocks and stresses. It contains a myriad of information about how interconnected…

This week was all about finding and analysing import and production data for food commodities in Viet Nam. Using information from FAOSTAT and the Vietnamese central statistics office I have begun to tease out the state of national food self sufficiency. In brief, Viet Nam has experienced significant changes in its food consumption patterns over…

Question of the Day What makes a country reliant on a certain food and how does this introduce vulnerability to the food system? Viet Nam, a country I’ve never been to, is the focus area of my thesis. Next week I’ll divulge about my research more, just thought I would begin this blog with something…