Decision No. 21/2001/QD-TTg ratifying the National Strategy on Nutrition for the 2001-2010 Period. Country/Territory Viet Nam Document type Regulation Date 2001 Source FAO, FAOLEX Original source Công Báo No. 11, 23 March 2001, pp. 6-8. Subject Food & nutrition Keyword Food security Policy/planning Nutrition Geographical area Asia, East Asian Seas, South-Eastern Asia Entry into force notes Entry into force on 15 days after signature. Abstract The Strategy here ratified has as its overall objective to improve markedly nutrition in Viet Nam by the year 2010, with a priority of all mothers and children, to create more balance in food rations in various regions of the country and to improve those rations and to increase and meet hygienic standards. It is also a declared objective to fight nutrition-related health problems. Article 1 sets out also specific objective of the Strategy, indicating targets. Article 2 prescribes major solutions to nutrition problems and policies. Full text English