Since the late 1980s, Vietnam has experienced rapid industrialization and urbanization, which led to the acquisition of a large number of farmland in peri-urban areas for non-agricultural purposes. Farmland loss is indeed a burning topic that attracts attention from administrators, policy maker and the media. This paper investigates the relation between the agricultural land loss and income of households. Our research provides an econometric analysis of the impact of agricultural land due to urbanization and industrialization on household incomes in Viet Tri‟s peri-urban areas, Vietnam. The econometric results revealed that farmland acquisition was not statistically correlated with the incomes of the household in this study. It found no econometric evidence for negative impacts of farmland acquisition on incomes of households on the study site. Nevertheless, farmland acquisition should not be systematically considered as a negative trend as it can motivate the households to transform livelihood strategies towards non-agricultural work. | The impact of agricultural land use transition on income of households in Viet Tri's peri-urban areas, Vietnam
