Furthermore, through forest land allocation and community forest management programmes, reforestation efforts involve communities, groups of households and individuals. Land is owned by all people, but the state is the people’s representative, allocation of forests and forest land with multiple types of owners. A number of studies in Viet Nam showed that local communities are able to manage their common-pool resources in a sustainable way (Tuan 2007, Ngai 2008, Tuan 2011).