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Devolution of Land Resource Management in Vietnam: Are All Land Users Equally Likely to Secure Formal Use Rights to Crop and Forest Land?
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Devolution of Land Resource Management in Vietnam: Are All Land Users
Equally Likely to Secure Formal Use Rights to Crop and Forest Land?
by
Cari An Coe
for presentation at the
2006 Midwest Political Science Association Conference
Chicago, Illinois
Panel 3-2: April 20, 2006
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Abstract
Vietnam’s recent policy of “community-based natural resource management” devolves management of some forest resources to local officials, who in turn manage the provision of crop and forest land use rights to households. A household with long-term forest use rights can be granted a long-term use rights registration certificate (LURC) which can be sold, traded, inherited and mortgaged. The implementation of this pseudo-property rights regime has been nearly completed among non-forest land users, but it remains incomplete among forest users. This paper uses national household survey data from 2002 to examine the characteristics of forester-farmer households that have been granted pseudo-property rights to agricultural and forest land and tests the hypothesis that the socio-economically and politically advantaged households are more likely to have been granted formal use rights. Because property rights to land are often associated with improved economic opportunity for the land holder, this paper addresses the important prior question of who is able to seize these benefits earliest under the local management scheme. The paper finds that income quintile, ethnic status, household head age, gender and education, and location in the north all affect access to land and tenure security. The effects of most of these variables are stronger in the case of forest resources.
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Devolution of Land Resource Management in Vietnam: Are All Land Users
Equally Likely to Secure Formal Use Rights to Crop and Forest Land?
by
Cari An Coe
for presentation at the
2006 Midwest Political Science Association Conference
Chicago, Illinois
Panel 3-2: April 20, 2006
## email not listed ##
Abstract
Vietnam’s recent policy of “community-based natural resource management” devolves
management of some forest resources to local officials, who in turn manage the provision
of crop and forest land use rights to households. A household with long-term forest use
rights can be granted a long-term use rights registration certificate (LURC) which can be
sold, traded, inherited and mortgaged. The implementation of this pseudo-property rights
regime has been nearly completed among non-forest land users, but it remains incomplete
among forest users. This paper uses national household survey data from 2002 to
examine the characteristics of forester-farmer households that have been granted pseudo-
property rights to agricultural and forest land and tests the hypothesis that the socio-
economically and politically advantaged households are more likely to have been granted
formal use rights. Because property rights to land are often associated with improved
economic opportunity for the land holder, this paper addresses the important prior
question of who is able to seize these benefits earliest under the local management
scheme. The paper finds that income quintile, ethnic status, household head age, gender
and education, and location in the north all affect access to land and tenure security. The
effects of most of these variables are stronger in the case of forest resources.
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