Viện Nghiên cứu Nam Á, Tây Á và Châu Phi

The Vietnamese Government has issued and is implementing the Project "Developing ties between Vietnam and the Middle East – Africa countries for the 2016-2025 period", which identifies agriculture as one of the priority areas of cooperation with Africa. Africa is a large continent with 55 countries, a population of over 1.2 billion people, farmland accounts for moẻ than 60% of the total global arable land area. In the relationship between Vietnam and Africa, agricultural is one of the traditional areas of cooperation, which activate since the 80s of the XX century through many forms: agricultural trade exchange, cooperation according to bilateral and trilateral models within the framework of South-South cooperation. One of the reasons for the results of agricultural cooperation between Vietnam and African countries in recent years is because Vietnam and African countries have good political relations, the desire to cooperate and share experiences for mutual development. From its experiences, Vietnam can support some African countries in agricultural production, especially in food production.