'Landlords are taking back the land': The agrarian transition in Vietnam

This article applies the concepts associated with agrarian political economy to recent Vietnamese economic development. Differences in access to land that underpin transformation in rural relations of production are documented. Differences in the technical coefficients of production are also demonstrated amongst farms when grouped on the basis of
size of land. The impact of these changes is demonstrated to be an impressive supply response, which suggests that dynamic productive efficiency gains have been fostered as a
result of rural restructuring. Differences in the extent to which farm households, when
grouped on the basis of expenditure quintiles, are integrated into markets, when considered
alongside differential agrarian productivity, suggests that the benefits of rural restructuring
are being inequitably distributed. Cumulatively, processes of peasant class differentiation
appear to be underway in rural Vietnam.