produced and consumed rice. As such, surplus rice-producing regions would have realized a net benefit from rising prices, whereas deficit regions would lose (Minot and Goletti 2000). On average, higher rice prices would benefit rural households at the expense of urban households. Simulation models have shown that a uniform 10 percent increase in rice prices would hurt mainly urban households, nonfarms, and families living in the five rice-deficit regions, although the effect on real income would be less than 2 percent on average. Price increases would benefit farmers, however, particularly those in the rice bowl areas (Minot and Goletti 2000). As poverty entails vulnerability and as poverty in Vietnam is still rural, these figures highlight the potential the reforms created to reduce food insecurity and improve nutritional status by attacking some roots of rural poverty.