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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

Sec. Aquatic Foods

Volume 9 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2025.1627765

This article is part of the Research TopicInteractions Between Rice Production and Climate ChangeView all 4 articles

The enabling environment for upscaling integrated rice-shrimp systems in the Mekong River Delta of Vietnam

Provisionally accepted
Nhuong TranNhuong Tran1*Khoi DangKhoi Dang2Lien LeLien Le2Thiep DoThiep Do3Dat NgoDat Ngo3Thinh PhamThinh Pham3Dung LeDung Le4Michael AkesterMichael Akester5
  • 1Hanoi School of Business, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam
  • 2Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
  • 3Institute of Agriculture Market and Institution Research (AMI), Vietnam’s National University of Agriculture, Hanoi, Vietnam
  • 4Vietnam’s Fisheries and Technical Economic College, Bac Ninh, Vietnam
  • 5Worldfish, Yangon, Myanmar

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 Scaling readiness analysis suggests that the Integrated Rice-Shrimp (IRS) system has significant potential for large-scale impact in the Vietnam Mekong Delta (VMD).  The IRS system provides notable environmental benefits and economically supports more sustainable livelihoods.  However, key barriers include limited financial capacity, fragmented small-scale operations, the weak role of farmer organizations, restricted market access, underdeveloped branding, and insufficient value chain transparency.  Addressing these challenges will be essential to unlocking the IRS system's full potential in the VMD.

Keywords: Integrated Rice-Shrimp system, Innovative scaling, Mekong River Delta, Climate Change, resilience, sustainable development

Received: 13 May 2025; Accepted: 07 Jul 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Tran, Dang, Le, Do, Ngo, Pham, Le and Akester. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Nhuong Tran, Hanoi School of Business, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam

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