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Land titling policy and soil conservation in the northern uplands of Vietnam

Keil, Alwin; Zeller, Manfred; Heidhues, Franz; Dung, Pham Thi My; Saint-Macary, Camille (2010), Land titling policy and soil conservation in the northern uplands of Vietnam, Land Use Policy, 27, 2, p. 617–627. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2009.08.004

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Article accepté pour publication ou publié
Date
2010-04
Journal name
Land Use Policy
Volume
27
Number
2
Publisher
Elsevier
Pages
617–627
Publication identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2009.08.004
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Author(s)
Keil, Alwin
Zeller, Manfred
Heidhues, Franz
Dung, Pham Thi My
Saint-Macary, Camille
Abstract (EN)
In Vietnam, a quasi-private property regime has been established in 1993 with the issuance of exchangeable and mortgageable long-term land use right certificates. Using primary qualitative and quantitative data collected in a mountainous district of Northern Vietnam, this paper investigates the role of the land policy in the adoption of soil conservation technologies by farmers. This issue is of crucial importance in the region where population growth and growing market demands have induced farmers to intensify agricultural production. While poverty has been reduced, environmental problems such as soil erosion, landslides, and declining soil fertility have become more severe over the past years. Our findings suggest that despite farmers’ awareness of erosion, soil conservation technologies are perceived as being economically unattractive; therefore, most upland farmers continue to practice the prevailing erosion-prone cultivation system. Focusing on agroforestry as one major soil conservation option, we estimate household and plot-level econometric models to empirically assess the determinants of adoption. We find that the possession of a formal land title positively influences adoption, but that the threat of land reallocations in villages discourages adoption by creating uncertainty and tenure insecurity. The analyses reveal that these two effects interact with each other but are of small magnitude. We conclude that the issuance of land titles is a necessary but not sufficient prerequisite to encouraging the adoption of soil conservation practices. However, current practices remain economically unattractive to farmers. This deficiency needs to be addressed by interdisciplinary research and complemented by strong efforts by local authorities to promote sustainable land use.
Subjects / Keywords
Land titling policy; Technology adoption; Upland agriculture
JEL
O13 - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
Q24 - Land
Q56 - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth

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