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Land law and customary land
In Vietnam no one owns land: it belongs to “the entire people,” and the state manages it. What families hold are rights to use it, recorded in certificates called red books. For highland villages, whose land was held by clans and lineages, rested in fallow for years and was defined by custom rather than surveys, this system has been the legal me...
Rubber
Coffee is the crop most people associate with the highlands, and we write about it in Land taken for coffee. Rubber is the older story. It came with the French, it was worked by people who died in large numbers doing it, and in our own time it has taken highland land in Vietnam and in Cambodia and Laos, where our kin live.
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