state that 85.6 percent of all households report having agriculture-related land, with about 94 percent in the Red River Delta in North Vietnam and only 61.2 percent in South Vietnam (Brandt et al. 2006), reflecting also historical differences. Yet the percentage of rural households with land has fallen from 92.2 percent in 1993 to 89.7 percent in 1998 and 85.6 percent in 2004.