This study aims to provide a preliminary assessment of the long-term commercial viability of a biofuel program in Viet Nam.

Its four main objectives are

• (i) to idenfy promising areas for investment in biofuel development in Viet Nam;
• (ii) to assess the implicaons of biofuel development for crop diversificaon, land use paerns, farm restructuring, and cross-border contract farming;
• (iii) to determine appropriate public–private partnerships that will help promote marketdriven business ventures in the biofuels subsector; and
• (iv) to review current country policies on bioenergy and provide policy recommendaons for a new naonal strategy. 

This report is part of the Greater Mekong Subregion: Status and Potential for the Development of Biofuels and Rural Renewable Energy series.