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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...
Forests, logging and the sacred groves
The highlands were forest country, and the forest was ours: farmland in rotation, hunting ground, the place of the spirits and the dead. After 1975 the forest became state property, managed by state forest enterprises and cleared for settlers and coffee. What remains is being handed back in small pieces of poor land, while logs cut across the bo...
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