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Accepted Paper:
Countereffect of land reform from below: a case of access to the land of rural farming households in Bac Kan province of Vietnam
Bao Nguyet Dang
(International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Paper short abstract:
The paper investigates access to the land for ethnic minority villagers in five districts of Bac Kan province in the northern mountainous region of Vietnam using Bernstein's four political economy questions.
Paper long abstract:
The research investigated access to the land situation in Bac Kan province, which is located in the northern mountainous region of Vietnam. It found out that the effects of land reforms in the researched areas in the past had significantly shaped the current access to the land situation of different groups of village households. This challenges a common view that the state-led land reforms in Vietnam have created relatively equal access to land.
More specifically, research findings suggest that different waves of land reforms in the region have further legitimated and exacerbated the already existing unequal access to land between different groups of villagers. Furthermore, the degradation of the land quality over several decades has affected the local farming household's ability to benefit from the land they are titled to. Households in the poor category are the most affected by this given that a significant amount of land they owned was low in quality.
The paper suggests that it is productive to adopt a view of access to land as 'the ability to benefit from the land' in analyzing the historical process of 'proletarianization by dispossession' to reveal the hidden aspect of inequality in land access in contemporary agrarian change conversation. Findings were analyzed based on an ethnosurvey with 276 households and in-depth interviews with 65 villagers living in five villages of five districts in Bac Kan province of Vietnam.
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Accepted Paper:
Paper short abstract:
Paper long abstract:
The research investigated access to the land situation in Bac Kan province, which is located in the northern mountainous region of Vietnam. It found out that the effects of land reforms in the researched areas in the past had significantly shaped the current access to the land situation of different groups of village households. This challenges a common view that the state-led land reforms in Vietnam have created relatively equal access to land.
More specifically, research findings suggest that different waves of land reforms in the region have further legitimated and exacerbated the already existing unequal access to land between different groups of villagers. Furthermore, the degradation of the land quality over several decades has affected the local farming household's ability to benefit from the land they are titled to. Households in the poor category are the most affected by this given that a significant amount of land they owned was low in quality.
The paper suggests that it is productive to adopt a view of access to land as 'the ability to benefit from the land' in analyzing the historical process of 'proletarianization by dispossession' to reveal the hidden aspect of inequality in land access in contemporary agrarian change conversation. Findings were analyzed based on an ethnosurvey with 276 households and in-depth interviews with 65 villagers living in five villages of five districts in Bac Kan province of Vietnam.
Counter agrarian reform in the Global South: dynamics of accumulation and change
Session 1 Thursday 7 July, 2022, -