Viet Nam’s agrarian transition in the Central Highland frontier: An example of agricultural intensification and extension among smallholders?

In the past three decades, rural Viet Nam has sustained a swift radical agricultural transition due to institutional reforms that liberalized land-tenure and wage labor laws. This rapid economic development has been shaped in part by government policies which shifted the economy away from social collectivity to one that is market-based. The most dramatic area of economic development was in the Central Highlands region of Dak Lak Province, which experienced a massive influx of migrants, the product of government resettlement programs and initiatives promoting intensive cash-crop..