Improved land tenure not the driver of economic development in a Vietnamese community
| Autor: | Ole Mertz, Christian M. S. Knudsen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Economic growth
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Restructuring business.industry Vietnamese Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies Planned economy 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology 01 natural sciences language.human_language Incentive Agriculture Deforestation Sustainability language General Earth and Planetary Sciences business Land tenure 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography. 116:82-84 |
| ISSN: | 1903-2471 0016-7223 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00167223.2015.1096745 |
| Popis: | During the restructuring of the Vietnamese economy in 1986, the Communist party of Vietnam (CPV) took the decision to leave central planning and build a market economy in Vietnam. In order to promote rural development and deal with deforestation, poverty and declining agricultural profitability, the government implemented the forestland allocation policies (FLA) and started a process of decentralization. This research note examines the impact of FLA policies on the agricultural practices of an upland community in central Vietnam and discusses the effects of increased tenure security. It is shown that the promotion of a sedentary production system has altered the sustainability of swidden agriculture leading to declining profitability and that a transition towards new crops and specialized crop cultivation has compensated for the loss. Furthermore, it is argued that the FLA policies have increased the villagers’ incentive to invest, their access to credit and the forest area of the village, but tha... |
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