For the Dao in Yen, individual rights only exist for old swidden fields.However, such rights do not exist for the land allocated to individual households under the FLA, ehich allowsvillagers in Yen open access to designated forest land, for timber and NTFPS.Households cango into a forest to open their new swidden fields anywhere in the forest without having any trouble from the landowners. What matters, in this case, is not property rights but access rights.