Date Received: 16-08-2021 / Date Accepted: 09-12-2021
This paper provided a critical review of land ownership experiencesfromdifferent countries around the world, analyzedchronological development, identifiedshortcomings and recommended land policy implications for Vietnam. By synthesizing and analyzing diverse secondary data sources, the findings showedthat multi-ownership and single-ownership types of land were existing simultaneously in the land tenure systems around the world.Unsurprisingly, the multi-ownership of land tendedto be more popular and preeminent than the single ownership manner in terms of management, use and conservation of land resources and harmonization of political,socio-economic,and environmental goals. In Vietnam, the core causes of conflicts related to land initiatedfrom of land ownershipand land property rights which are inappropriate to develop a socialist-oriented market economy. Therefore, the study proposedthat Vietnam should shortly consider ‘land use rights’ as property rights to land and fullyadaptand improve a legal mechanism for land market development. In the long term, the Land Law should be renovated by adapting land multi-ownership type to maximizing potential benefits from the land resource and harmonizing politico-socio-economic goals and balancing relations among the state, market, and citizen on land.
