Food self‐sufficiency in Vietnam: A search for a viable solution

摘要

AbstractThis article attempts to assess the effects on an agricultural resource system of policies to maintain food self‐sufficiency in a centrally planned economy. Vietnam's case serves as an illustration. Experimentation with a system dynamics model of the food production system, incorporating relations concerning soil ecology and agricultural land management policy, serves as a basis for this assessment. Short‐run policies to increase production appear to be detrimental to maintaining food self‐sufficiency in the long run. it appears that a sustainable food production policy must incorporate soil conservation and improvement, and population control. Although difficult to implement in a market system, such a policy agenda may be feasible in a centrally planned ec