Sử dụng và quản lý tài nguyên rừng tại một bản người Dao tỉnh Phú Thọ

Tóm tắt

Forest cover in Vietnam has been substantially reduced during the last several decades. To increase forest cover, the Vietnamese government issued the forest devolution policy in the 1990s. This paper shows the effects of the forest devolution policy on the local dynamics of the use of forest land and forest resources in an upland village in northern Vietnam. In this paper, the author indicates that the fuzziness of property relations regarding the forest in the uplands of Vietnam brings about a variety of contestations among different actors. The findings demonstrate that despite the clear cut regulations that are promoted by the forest devolution policy actual property relationships remain highly fuzzy and very much contested among local people, and between them and various local state agencies. The outcomes of the forest devolution policy are not merely shaped by the policy itself, but also by other factors such as villagers’ notions of rural landscapes and local power relations. Property fuzziness actually creates opportunities for the local elite to capture most of the benefits derived from forest land and forest resources