Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung is Head of the National Steering Committee for the Zero Hunger Action Program of Vietnam. (Photo: VNA)

Mr. Dung, also Head of the National Steering Committee for the program, assigned the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to build a working plan for the Committee in the first quarter of 2018.

This program responds to the “Zero Hunger Challenge” that the United Nations initiated at the Rio+20 Sustainable Development Summit in Brazil in 2012. Its specific targets are ensuring food and nutrition for people all year around, developing a sustainable food system, increasing productivity and income for most small-scale farmers, ensuring no malnutrition among children under two, and no wastefulness and loss of food.