The effects of land tenure policy on rural livelihoods and food sufficiency in the upland village of Que, North Central Vietnam

Jakobsen, Jens; Rasmussen, Kjeld; Leisz, Stephen J.; Folving, Rikke; Quang, Nguyen Minh

doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2006.09.007

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“…Padoch et al assessed the possible demise of swidden agriculture in SEA and confirmed that swidden cultivation is disappearing in many parts of mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) [54]. Much the same conclusion is reported in a case study in a remote upland village in north central Vietnam, in which swidden agricultural practices were reduced substantially due to government restrictions [83].…”

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confidence: 61%

“…For example, in Palawan Island of the Philippines, although driven by the state's laws, policies, and practices to curb swidden cultivation, local farmers argue that swidden is still a de facto vital and integral practice [85]. What is more, the implementation of government agrarian policies to substitute swidden agriculture sometimes causes negative effects on the livelihoods of local residents [83] and brings unsustainable development [87]. Farmers in some locations have returned to undertake swidden cultivation after decades.…”

Section: Viewpoint Of Persistencementioning

confidence: 99%

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A Review of Swidden Agriculture in Southeast Asia

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Swidden agriculture is by far the dominant land use system in the mountainous regions of Southeast Asia (SEA). It provides various valuable subsistence products to local farmers, mostly the poor ethnic minority groups. Controversially, it is also closely connected with a number of environmental issues. With the strengthening regional economic cooperation in SEA, swidden agriculture has experienced drastic transformations into other diverse market-oriented land use types since the 1990s. However, there is very limited information on the basic geographical and demographic data of swidden agriculture and the socio-economic and biophysical effects of the transformations. International programs, such as the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD), underscore the importance of monitoring and evaluating swidden agriculture and its transition to reduce carbon emission due to deforestation and forest degradation. In this context, along with the accessibility of Landsat historical imagery, remote sensing based techniques will offer an effective way to detect and monitor the locations and extent of swidden agriculture. Many approaches for investigating fire occurrence and burned area can be introduced for swidden agriculture mapping due to the common feature of fire relatedness. In this review paper, four broad approaches involving spectral signatures, phenological characteristics, statistical theory and landscape ecology were summarized for swidden agriculture delineation. Five research priorities about swidden agriculture involving remote sensing techniques, spatial pattern, change, drivers and impacts were proposed accordingly. To our knowledge, a synthesis review on the remote sensing and outlook on swidden agriculture has not been reported yet. This review paper aims to give a comprehensive overview of swidden agriculture studies in the domains of debated definition, trends, remote sensing methods and OPEN ACCESSRemote Sens. 2014, 6 1655 outlook research in SEA undertaken in the past two decades.

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A Review of Swidden Agriculture in Southeast Asia

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“…Studies focusing on the forest cover change in 1990s or up to early 2000s were also negative and critical of FLA (Jakobsen et al 2007, Thiha et al 2007, Gomiero et al 2000. In D village, where shifting cultivation was no longer practiced and degraded forestland was left, the problem was rather on the administrative procedure and it was reported that the SFEs, the former forest management entities, were resistant to the reform.…”

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“…Clement et al (2009) compared the land cover of a province in the Northeast Region from 1993 to 2000, and revealed that the official forest-cover statistics were likely overestimated and FLA had none or no positive impacts on the increase. In contrast, a village-level study in the North Central Coast Region detected a population-driven increase in the area of shifting cultivation through the 1990 s; then the area reversed to a rapid decrease from the end of the 1990 s; and FLA was most likely a cause to this change (Jakobsen et al 2007). Thiha et al (2007) Though the FLA policy expects that livelihood improvement through the allocation creates incentives among local people to protect allocated forests (Castella et al 2006), household surveys reported negative impacts mainly caused by an ineffective implementation process and noncompliance among the local people.…”

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The effect of forestland allocation to the livelihoods of local people in the North Central Coast of Vietnam: A case in Nam Dong district

Nguyen

Masuda

Iwanaga

2016

Tropics

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Forestland allocation (FLA) policy in Vietnam aimed at conserving forests and improving local livelihoods.In regard to the effectiveness of FLA, some authors reported improvements in forest cover and quality, whereas others stated inappropriate implementation process and minor impacts on household income. Hence, this study examined whether disturbances in initial stage still existed, how allocated forestlands were utilized, and how FLA contributed to local livelihoods under different forest management regimes. D village of Nam Dong district, where FLA was introduced in 1995, was selected as a case, and 78 households were randomly selected for household interviews. The results revealed that shifting cultivation, once widely reported in mountainous regions, had already ceased before our survey. Natural forests allocated to groups were mainly utilized for non-wood forest product (NWFP) collection, regardless of whether those users had an allocation. Individually allocated areas were converted to acacia and recently to rubber plantations. The rotation of acacia plantation was five to seven years with intercropping cassava in the initial stage. FLA contributed to adjusting an uneven distribution of farmland and income, but the effect remained nominal. The role of FLA in income generation was limited due to small allocation area per household (1.50 ha on average). Switching to rubber trend was another reason of limited income derived from FLA. Therefore NWFP played a more significant role in the household economy than plantation yields. Investment in livestock was first preference of respondents, which suggests the importance of small-scale livestock rearing in the areas facing land shortage.

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“…First, it is worth noticing that the process of land registration in the uplands has faced serious difficulties and its overall progress has been slow. The latest available official forestry land allocation figure indicates that, in 2007, 75 per cent of the forestry land area was officially 'allocated' (FPD 2007), but only 31 per cent was actually devolved to households, communities and other private organisations in (FPD 2007, 2010 Jakobsen et al 2007). Land allocation, coupled with settlement schemes, has led upland farmers to replace swiddening cultivation with fixed cultivation -which was one of the major aims of the Government of Vietnam (GoV).…”

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Conceptualising context in institutional reforms of land and natural resource management: the case of Vietnam

Clément

Amézaga

2013

Int J Commons

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Research and policy debates over natural resource management in developing countries have largely focused on identifying the set of institutions that best supports resource sustainability and poverty alleviation. We argue that beyond finding the right institutional fit for a social-ecological system, it is equally important to understand how context affects the design and outcomes of institutional reforms. We propose a refined conceptualisation of context, based on a revision of the Institutional Analysis and Development framework. We defend a systematic analysis of context, distinguishing between contextual factors affecting the fitness to local socio-ecological conditions and contextual factors that mobilise power such as political-economic interests and prevailing discourses. We illustrate our argument with empirical research on land-tenure reforms that have been implemented since the 1980s in northern Vietnam. The proposed analytical framework and conceptualisation of context allows a more pervasive understanding of contextual factors, enabling the incorporation of the forms of power that give meaning and legitimacy to institutional change.

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The effects of land tenure policy on rural livelihoods and food sufficiency in the upland village of Que, North Central Vietnam

Cited by 76 publications

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A Review of Swidden Agriculture in Southeast Asia

A Review of Swidden Agriculture in Southeast Asia

The effect of forestland allocation to the livelihoods of local people in the North Central Coast of Vietnam: A case in Nam Dong district

Conceptualising context in institutional reforms of land and natural resource management: the case of Vietnam

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