Food safety and urban food markets in Vietnam: The need for flexible and customized retail modernization policies

Wertheim-Heck, Sigrid; Vellema, Sietze; Spaargaren, Gert

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2015.05.002

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“…supermarkets, hypermarkets, and mini‐markets) are generally considered by policymakers to be a source of high quality food products, particularly with respect to delivering services and food safety guarantees (Maruyama and Trung ,b; Wertheim‐Heck et al . , ). Although traditional markets (e.g.…”

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Does food market modernisation lead to improved dietary diversity and diet quality for urban Vietnamese households?

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Umberger

Zeng

2019

Aus J Agri & Res Econ

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This study investigates the possible mechanisms through which modern food markets may affect Vietnamese households’ dietary diversity and diet quality using data from a survey of 1,700 urban households with seven‐day food recall. We calculate Household Dietary Diversity Scores to measure dietary diversity, and use consumption frequencies of micronutrients (vitamin A and heme iron) and a macronutrient (protein) to create a household measure of diet quality. We estimate a Poisson regression model using a two‐step control function approach to address the potential endogeneity of our key explanatory variable, modern market food expenditure shares. Higher modern market food expenditure share is positively and significantly associated with consumption frequency of heme iron, but there are no significant associations with consumption of vitamin A and protein. We further explore indirect linkages between food expenditure shares and dietary diversity, which in turn, may be linked to household diet quality. Results from a system of equations show that the food expenditure share variable has no significant relationship with dietary diversity, but dietary diversity is positively and significantly associated with diet quality. Our results indicate that alone, policies which encourage ‘food market modernisation’ are not enough to improve diet quality in urban Vietnam.

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Does food market modernisation lead to improved dietary diversity and diet quality for urban Vietnamese households?

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Zeng

2019

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“…In countries, such as China, and some South East Asian nations supermarkets have been viewed as “tools of modernization” (Reardon 2011) and in Vietnam as a vehicle to improve food safety standards (Wertheim‐Heck, Vellema, and Spaargaren 2015). However, given that fresh markets can play an important function in providing healthy, fresh, affordable, and potentially more sustainable food within the food system, policies are required to support their continued existence in the face of considerable economic power residing in large national and international food retailers.…”

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What's Old Is New Again: Innovative Policies to Support Thai Fresh Markets Within a Healthy Food System

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Traditionally, Thais have bought their food from fresh markets. However, recently multi‐national supermarket chains have expanded rapidly so that currently, Thais procure food from both modern and traditional retail formats. If Thailand were to follow the Western pattern, supermarkets will become the dominant food retail format. We present a synthesis of 10 years of multidisciplinary research, examining the contribution of food retail to the Thai nutrition and health transition, to demonstrate that fresh markets provide access to fresh, affordable, nutritious foods. Fresh market shoppers have healthier diets and lower chronic disease risks than other groups. In the South East Asia context, the protection of fresh markets constitutes a novel intervention to protect and promote nutrition‐sensitive retail. This could be achieved through policy action nationally, with monitoring of national and multi‐national supermarket chain growth, regionally, with planning to safeguard fresh markets' urban locations, and locally, with the development of food hubs.

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“…This is the case with traditional wet markets in Hanoi (Vietnam) that were perceived to pose a food safety hazard since they do not meet the private standards of modern supermarkets. Consequently, the city's retail modernization policy framework, which favours public-private partnerships, has led to their closure and replacement with supermarkets (Wertheim-Heck et al 2015).…”

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Designing Urban Food Policies

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The Urban Agriculture Book Series at Springer is for researchers, professionals, policy-makers and practitioners working on agriculture in and near urban areas. Urban agriculture (UA) can serve as a multifunctional resource for resilient food systems and socio-culturally, economically and ecologically sustainable cities.For the Book Series Editors, the main objective of this series is to mobilize and enhance capacities to share UA experiences and research results, compare methodologies and tools, identify technological obstacles, and adapt solutions. By diffusing this knowledge, the aim is to contribute to building the capacity of policymakers, professionals and practitioners in governments, international agencies, civil society, the private sector as well as academia, to effectively incorporate UA in their field of interests. It is also to constitute a global research community to debate the lessons from UA initiatives, to compare approaches, and to supply tools for aiding in the conception and evaluation of various strategies of UA development.The concerned scientific field of this series is large because UA combines agricultural issues with those related to city management and development. Thus this interdisciplinary Book Series brings together environmental sciences, agronomy, urban and regional planning, architecture, landscape design, economics, social sciences, soil sciences, public health and nutrition, recognizing UA's contribution to meeting society's basic needs, feeding people, structuring the cities while shaping their development. All these scientific fields are of interest for this Book Series. Books in this Series will analyze UA research and actions; program implementation, urban policies, technological innovations, social and economic development, management of resources (soil/land, water, wastes…) for or by urban agriculture, are all pertinent here.This Book Series includes a mix of edited, coauthored, and single-authored books. These books could be based on research programs, conference papers, or other collective efforts, as well as completed theses or entirely new manuscripts.More information about this series at

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Food safety and urban food markets in Vietnam: The need for flexible and customized retail modernization policies

Cited by 99 publications

References 37 publications

Does food market modernisation lead to improved dietary diversity and diet quality for urban Vietnamese households?

Does food market modernisation lead to improved dietary diversity and diet quality for urban Vietnamese households?

What's Old Is New Again: Innovative Policies to Support Thai Fresh Markets Within a Healthy Food System

Designing Urban Food Policies

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