ARTICLE INFO

ABSTRACT

Received date: 17/10/2015

Accepted date: 08/08/2016

Land tenure security is important to enhance farmers’ incentive in land investment and to agricultural development. The security of farmers’ land rights has been significantly improved in Vietnam since the first Land Law of 1987. However, the improvement has limits. In terms of legal certainty, one of the limits is related to the law on the duration of land rights for farmers. At present, farmers can hold their arable land rights for only 50 years, which may affect tenure security and land investment negatively. Although the land rights are subjected to renew, the procedure is problematic. It is, therefore, ideally to allow farmers to hold their arable land rights in perpetuity in order to enlarge the security of their land rights and give them more incentive to have long-term land investment.

KEYWORDS

Duration, farmers’ land rights, land tenure security, Vietnam

Cited as: Huong, N.L., 2016. Vietnamese law on duration of farmers’ land rights: Developement and limits. Can Tho University Journal of Science. Vol 3: 79-84.