Land allocations under the renovation policy (Doi Moi) in the Red River Delta, Vietnam
1999
Tanaka, T. (University of Hawaii (USA))
A household-managed land system has gradually replaced the cooperative-managed land system in the Red Rive Delta of Vietnam, under the economic reform plan called "Doi Moi" which was formulated in 1986 but did not take effect until 1988 through the enforcement of Resolution 10. Resolution 10 Stated that households were once again the basic production units in the agricultural sector and farmlands were allocated to farming households rather than cooperatives for a period of fifteen years. However, this policy did not ensure legal land-use rights for farmers. In 1993, the government undertook a major revision of the land law to complete the land reform contemplated under Resolution 10. Under the new land law, farming house-holds are provided with stable and long-term rights to use land, 20 years for annual crop lands and 50 years for perennial crop lands, and were given Land Use Right Certificates (LURCs). This paper shows that when farmlands were allocated to farming households in 1988, the fifteen-year tenure right was not realized at the grassroots level. Furthermore, the farmland allocations created an inefficient land system characterized by fragmentation of land plots. When land re-allocations were executed before the issuance of LURCs, an attempt was made by rural communities to consolidate lands. It was found that this attempt succeeded under the following two conditions: the availability of off-farm jobs and the capabilities of community leaders. In villages where farmers Obtained high incomes from off-farm activities, the average number of plots per household was smaller than in the villages where farmers have fewer opportunities to get off-farm jobs. Although their economic environment was not favorable, some villages managed to consolidate farmlands by building a consensus among farmers
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