The causes of the reforestation in Vietnam

Meyfroidt, Patrick; Lambin, Éric F.

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2007.06.001

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“…Compared with the regrowth in wood volume, the increase in forest area depended less on a displacement of wood extraction abroad, because it was mainly associated with land allocation policies and agricultural changes (7). Some forest area increase would still have taken place since 1992 without displacement of wood extraction abroad.…”

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“…Forest cover has grown steadily since that time, from 24.7 (24.6-31.1)% of the country's area in 1992 to 38.2 (34.4-42.1)% in 2005. Several internal political, socioeconomic, and land-use processes contributed to this reforestation (7). During this period, logging was severely restricted in natural forests by successive forestry policies, whereas recorded wood imports have increased substantially and large quantities of illegal logs entered the country, mostly from Cambodia (8) and Laos (9).…”

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Forest transition in Vietnam and displacement of deforestation abroad

Meyfroidt

Lambin

2009

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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In some countries across the globe, tropical forest cover is increasing. The national-scale reforestation of Vietnam since 1992 is assumed to contribute to this recovery. It is achieved, however, by the displacement of forest extraction to other countries on the order of 49 (34 -70) M m 3 , or Ϸ39% of the regrowth of Vietnam's forests from 1987 to 2006. Approximately half of wood imports to Vietnam during this period were illegal. Leakage due to policies restricting forest exploitation and displacement due to growing domestic consumption and exports contributed respectively to an estimated 58% and 42% of total displacement. Exports of wood products from Vietnam also grew rapidly, amounting to 84% of the displacement, which is a remarkable feature of the forest transition in Vietnam. Attribution of the displacement and corresponding forest extraction to Vietnam, the source countries or the final consumers is thus debatable. Sixty-one percent of the regrowth in Vietnam was, thus, not associated with displacement abroad. Policies allocating credits to countries for reducing deforestation and forest degradation should monitor illegal timber trade and take into account the policy-induced leakage of wood extraction to other countries.leakage ͉ reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation ͉ reforestation ͉ illegal timber trade ͉ forestry policies

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Forest transition in Vietnam and displacement of deforestation abroad

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Lambin

2009

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“…Given the coupling of agricultural land expansion and deforestation it is not surprising that both the scientific and the policy community are placing a significant emphasis on sustainable agricultural intensification to reduce pressure on forests, thus sparing land for nature (7)(8)(9), while meeting the coming food security challenge (10,11). Clearly the magnitude of the land-sparing effect will depend on a range of demographic, technological, and socioeconomic factors (12,13).…”

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Governance, agricultural intensification, and land sparing in tropical South America

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Bardsley

Gómez-y-Paloma

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Significance Tropical South America has forest resources of global significance but exhibits a relatively high rate of deforestation. As agricultural expansion remains the most important cause of forest loss and degradation there, it is important to understand its main drivers. In this paper we address two important questions: How do the quality of governance and agricultural intensification combine to impact the spatial expansion of agriculture? Which aspects of governance are more likely to ensure that agricultural intensification allows sparing land for nature? By distinguishing between conventional and environmental dimensions of governance (which includes also the establishment of protected areas), we investigate which of these two aspects, by interacting with the process of agricultural intensification, is likely to promote land sparing.

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“…In these instances, agricultural intensification does not deter expansion in croplands, and threats to environmental services, especially at the landscape or regional levels, may grow. Empirical studies, focused overwhelmingly on local and regional scale changes, provide evidence for both land-consuming and land-sparing effects from intensification (15)(16)(17)(18). Analysts working at the global scale have modeled the landsparing effect rather than examining historical instances of it (4,7,9).…”

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