Viet Nam

When: 2017–2018

Purpose: Support sustainable growth, environmental protection, natural-resource management, and proactive climate response.

What happened: The project centered on NDC & mitigation pathways, water security, land-use implications, climate resilience, and water stress points such as Mekong Delta saline intrusion or the Central Highlands. A spatial water-energy-food model represented Viet Nam through northern, central, and southern regions. Priority crops included cassava, coffee, maize, paddy rice, sugarcane, vegetables, and fruits, with rainfed & irrigated systems represented under low, intermediate, and high management.

Key insights:

• Management & irrigation can transform yields: for example, cassava production triples from 3 t/ha under rainfed, low management to 10 t/ha under irrigated, high management.

Models: LINK, OSeMOSYS

Stakeholders: Ministry of Planning & Investment, National Centre for Socio-Economic Information & Forecast, Ministry of Natural Resources & Environment, Institute of Strategy & Policy on Natural Resources & Environment, Development Strategy Institute, National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, Ho Chi Minh City stakeholders, UN DESA, UNDP, IAEA.