Land privatization and afforestation incentive of rural farms in the Northern Uplands of Vietnam

authored by

Trung Thanh Nguyen, Siegfried Bauer, Holm Uibrig

Abstract

Poverty and deforestation are critical issues in a number of developing countries where the policy framework is in many cases insufficient to provide rural people an incentive to afforest. This paper analyzes both the impact of land privatization on afforestation efforts of rural farm households in the Northern Uplands of Vietnam and the economic incentive of farm households on afforestation efforts. The determinants of afforestation by farm households were analyzed. Empirical findings were used to derive relevant policy implications for promoting forest rehabilitation in a country where the majority of forestland had been in State control prior to land privatization in 1994.

External Organisation(s)

University of Bayreuth
Justus Liebig University Giessen
Technische Universität Dresden

Type

Article

Journal

Forest policy and economics

Volume

12

Pages

518-526

No. of pages

9

ISSN

1389-9341

Publication date

09.2010

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Forestry, Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 15 - Life on Land

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2010.05.007 (Access: Closed)