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<p>This article generalizes the urbanization process and its impact on agricultural land use in Vietnam. The high rate of urbanization has led to a great demand for purchasing agricultural products, especially high-quality ones, and as a result, this affects agricultural development. On one hand, it offers new chances to expand the domestic market and to encourage exports. On the other hand, the conversion of agricultural land into non-agricultural land under accelerated urbanization leads to a large area of arable land being abandoned or polluted, consequently affecting food security and sustainable development. Therefore, to meet the people’s food needs in the context of urbanization, it is necessary to have proper solutions to improve the efficiency of agricultural land use, such as: implementing land laws aimed at developing agricultural production in the direction of large-scale, concentrated commodities; executing land-use planning, performing agricultural production planning towards specialized cultivation with a stable term to ensure profitable investment; boosting the restructuring of the agricultural sector; developing collective and cooperative economics in agriculture; having policies to support, forecast, and search for markets for consumption and the processing of agricultural products; creating a transparent land-use rights market.</p>
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This article generalizes the urbanization process and its impact on agricultural land use in Vietnam. The high rate of urbanization has led to a great demand for purchasing agricultural products, especially high-quality ones, and as a result, this affects agricultural development. On one hand, it offers new chances to expand the domestic market and to encourage exports. On the other hand, the conversion of agricultural land into non-agricultural land under accelerated urbanization leads to a large area of arable land being abandoned or polluted, consequently affecting food security and sustainable development. Therefore, to meet the people’s food needs in the context of urbanization, it is necessary to have proper solutions to improve the efficiency of agricultural land use, such as: implementing land laws aimed at developing agricultural production in the direction of large-scale, concentrated commodities; executing land-use planning, performing agricultural production planning towards specialized cultivation with a stable term to ensure profitable investment; boosting the restructuring of the agricultural sector; developing collective and cooperative economics in agriculture; having policies to support, forecast, and search for markets for consumption and the processing of agricultural products; creating a transparent land-use rights market.

Agricultural land use in Vietnam in the context of urbanization: status and policy implications

Vietnam National University of Agriculture

Environmental & Socio-economic Studies

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This article generalizes the urbanization process and its impact on agricultural land use in Vietnam. The high rate of urbanization has led to a great demand...

Agricultural land use in Vietnam in the context of urbanization: status and policy implications

Published Online: Mar 13, 2024

Page range: 51 - 62

Received: Sep 18, 2023

Accepted: Feb 06, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/environ-2024-0005

Keywords
agricultural land, land use policy, land use change, impacts of urbanization

© 2024 Phan Thi Thanh Huyen et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Agricultural land use in Vietnam in the context of urbanization: status and policy implications

Published Online: Mar 13, 2024

Page range: 51 - 62

Received: Sep 18, 2023

Accepted: Feb 06, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/environ-2024-0005

Keywordsagricultural land, land use policy, land use change, impacts of urbanization

© 2024 Phan Thi Thanh Huyen et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
agricultural land, land use policy, land use change, impacts of urbanization