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### **Preface XI**


Chapter 6 **Dairy Value Chain In Vietnam: Evidences from Bavi Area 99** Nguyen Viet Khoi, Hoang Thi Hai Yen, Tong Van Khai, Nguyen Tien Duc and Dang Thi Phuong Hoa


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term [1]:

1. satisfy human food and fiber needs;

ricultural economy depends;

Value Chains Knowledge Platform is as follows [1]:

natural resources."

4. sustain the economic viability of farm operations; and

5. enhance the quality of life for farmers and society as a whole."

Agricultural value chain is one of the most important pillars of sustainable agriculture and overall sustainable development of our society. In 1990, the US congress defined sustainable agriculture as follows: "the term sustainable agriculture means an integrated system of plant and animal production practices having a site-specific application that will, over the long

2. enhance environmental quality and the natural resource base upon which the ag‐

3. make the most efficient use of nonrenewable resources and on-farm resources and integrate, where appropriate, natural biological cycles and controls;

As the bullets 4 and 5 indicate, farm operations need to be more efficient and effective, which also need to result in enhancements in the quality of life of farmers and the society as a whole. However, the focus of policy making needs to be expanded to the entire value chain of agricultural products. In fact, food value chain has been addressed extensively in the global reports and the literature because it has a central role in sustainable agriculture efforts in all dimensions of sustainability. The value is typically being added to an agricul‐ tural product during the entire life cycle from harvesting to the final delivery to consumer and the disposal phases. Therefore, sustainability of food value chain becomes a fundamen‐ tal issue for sustainable development initiatives worldwide. In this context, the most recent definition of *sustainable food value chain* provided by the United Nations Sustainable Food

"the full range of farms and firms and their successive coordinated value-adding activities that produce particular raw agricultural materials and transform them into particular food products that are sold to final consumers and disposed of after use, in a manner that is prof‐ itable throughout, has broad-based benefits for society, and does not permanently deplete

The global policy-making agency, the UN, and various local policy makers stress heavily on the social aspects of value chain as well as its economic side and the environmental impacts to realize a triple-bottom-line paradigm across the globe due to having severe economic, social inequalities in income, and profit distribution across the stakeholders of global food value chain and nondecreasing environmental consequences such as emissions, water footprint, and land depletion. Today, 70% of our food is produced by small-scale farmers [1]. In the

