The agricultural sector cannot be examined in isolation from the rest of the economy and world markets. Vietnam is a large exporter of rice, but agricultural markets and its comparative advan- tages may change in fundamental ways over a time horizon of four decades. Changes that affect the agricultural sector may affect economic growth and the distribution of incomes for the country as a whole. Equally, the impacts of climate change on the agricultural sector will be partly shaped by developments in the rest of the economy, so that the assessment must account for the dynamics of economic growth outside agriculture. For these reasons the analysis of the impacts of climate change on agriculture is linked to a macroeco- nomic model of economic development up to 2050 to account for interactions between the agri- cultural sector and the rest of the economy.