摘要：Forestry has been identified by the Vietnamese government as an increasingly important factor con-tributing to the agricultural and rural development programs. This paper examines differences in demo-graphic and economic characteristics of forest plan-tation and non-forest-plantation households in up-land Vietnam and identifies factors that affect farm-ers'decisions about whether to establish a forest plantation from an economic point of view. The anal-ysis is based on data from a survey of 360 house-holds in rural Bac Kan province in northern Vietnam and is conducted using a logistic regression model. The analyses demonstrate a number of important conclusions:(i)forest plantation activities increase with farm households having a greater amount of land, labor and assets;(ii)farmers with guarantees of land rights are more likely to plant forests on their land;(ii)the household with more participants on extension and credit activities have positive effects on farmers'forest plantation decisions; and (iv) the household head with a higher education level has a positive influence on forest planting decisions;(v)Meanwhile, off-farm income has negative effects on farmers'forest plantation decisions. The results of the chapter also demonstrate that, in recent years, farmers'decisions regarding whether to plant forests have been based primarily on economic rather than ecological concerns. These findings provide im-portant empirical evidence of the most influential factors to consider when policymakers design rural development interventions and of the need to focus on improving rural households'livelihoods in gen-eral when promoting long-term farm forestry pro-duction in Vietnam.
