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

Dung, Pham Thi My; Saint-Macary, Camille; Keil, Alwin; Zeller, Manfred; Heidhues, Franz

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

dc.contributor.author	Dung, Pham Thi My	de
dc.contributor.author	Saint-Macary, Camille	de
dc.contributor.author	Keil, Alwin	de
dc.contributor.author	Zeller, Manfred	de
dc.contributor.author	Heidhues, Franz	de
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-08T08:42:23Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-08T08:42:23Z
dc.date.created	2009-05-15
dc.date.issued	2008
dc.description.abstract	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. Among the abundant literature on the impact of property rights and formal land titles in developing countries, only a few studies have focused on the adoption of soil conservation technologies: an important element in sustainable development strategies of fragile agro-ecological areas confronted with increasing population densities. Our findings suggest that 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 influences adoption, but that the threat of land re-allocations in villages discourages adoption by creating uncertainty and tenure insecurity. We conclude that more efforts are needed from decision-makers to promote and support the adoption of conservation practices and to clarify objectives of the land policy in order to secure land tenure and foster sustainable development in fragile areas.	en
dc.identifier.swb	306774496
dc.identifier.uri	https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/5247
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-3576
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Forschung zur Entwicklungsökonomie und -politik / Research in development economics and policy; 2008,3
dc.rights.license	publ-ohne-pod	en
dc.rights.license	publ-ohne-pod	de
dc.rights.uri	http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/doku/lic_ubh.php
dc.subject	Land titling policy	en
dc.subject	Technology adoption	en
dc.subject	Upland agriculture	en
dc.subject.ddc	630
dc.subject.gnd	Nordvietnam	de
dc.subject.gnd	Grundeigentum	de
dc.subject.gnd	Bodenschutz	de
dc.title	Land titling policy and soil conservation in the uplands of Northern Vietnam	de
dc.type.dcmi	Text	de
dc.type.dini	WorkingPaper	de
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	en
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	de
local.bibliographicCitation.publisherPlace	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.export.bibtex	@techreport{Dung2008, url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/5247}, author = {Dung, Pham Thi My and Saint-Macary, Camille and Keil, Alwin et al.}, title = {Land titling policy and soil conservation in the uplands of Northern Vietnam}, year = {2008}, school = {Universität Hohenheim}, series = {Forschung zur Entwicklungsökonomie und -politik / Research in development economics and policy}, }
local.export.bibtexAuthor	Dung, Pham Thi My and Saint-Macary, Camille and Keil, Alwin et al.
local.export.bibtexKey	Dung2008
local.export.bibtexType	@techreport
local.faculty.number	2	de
local.institute.number	490	de
local.opus.number	357
local.series.issueNumber	2008,3
local.series.title	Forschung zur Entwicklungsökonomie und -politik / Research in development economics and policy
local.university	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.university.faculty	Faculty of Agricultural Sciences	en
local.university.faculty	Fakultät Agrarwissenschaften	de
local.university.institute	Institute for Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences in the Tropics and Subtropics	en
local.university.institute	Institut für Agrar- und Sozialökonomie in den Tropen und Subtropen	de

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