Addressing shortcomings in the Household Responsibility System

Chen, Kai; Brown, Colin G.

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“…This system enabled farmers to sell their products in a market system, and contributed to a reinvigoration of agriculture. However, the concomitant expansion of small‐scale agriculture, together with the fragility of the soils on the Loess Plateau, has contributed to serious land degradation problems in the region (Chen & Brown, ; Chen et al ., ; Nolan et al ., ).…”

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“…However, the period between 1953 and the late 1970s saw a rapid increase in both population and the number of small agricultural holdings (Shi & Shao, ). The number of agricultural holdings increased even more rapidly following the implementation of a new land policy, the Household Responsibility System, in the 1970s and early 1980s (Chen & Brown, ). This system enabled farmers to sell their products in a market system, and contributed to a reinvigoration of agriculture.…”

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The Impacts of Temporary Labour Migration on Farming Systems of the Loess Plateau, Gansu Province, China

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2013

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Across much of rural China, members of farm households spend parts of the year working in cities to generate additional income. This process of temporary labour migration has gathered pace in recent years as rural households capitalise on China's economic expansion and look to improve their own levels of well-being. Yet, to date, relatively little research has examined the impacts of temporary migration on the structure and performance of farming systems. Accordingly, this paper examines the ways in which temporary migration has resulted in significant changes to the nature of farming on the Loess Plateau in Gansu Province. It draws primarily on a survey of 175 households in three different agroclimatic zones. The analysis indicates that temporary migration is associated with quite complex changes in land use, agricultural production and farm enterprise productivity. Although households involved in temporary migration tend to have higher incomes than non-migration households, this appears to be at the expense of farm productivity. Indeed, higher levels of migration are closely associated with more extensive, low labour farming practices, suggesting a tendency towards disinvestment in agricultural enterprise.

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The Impacts of Temporary Labour Migration on Farming Systems of the Loess Plateau, Gansu Province, China

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“…The Household Responsibility System revolutionized Chinese agriculture by dismantling its collectivized and centralized system (Chen & Brown, 2001;Watson, 1983). From the end of the 1950s until 1978, all agricultural decisions were made at the level of the communes (Watson, 1983).…”

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“…The enthusiasm of individual farmers for the farming work was extremely low. In 1978, the Household Responsibility System was introduced to embark on a radically different path, a process of decentralization and decollectivization of agriculture (Chen & Brown, 2001). With the Household Responsibility System, individual households (farmers) regained a central position in agricultural development and the direct relation between farmers' income and their individual production was restored (Chen & Brown, 2001;Watson, 1983;Yep, 2015).…”

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“…In the Household Responsibility System, the right of use of the collectives' farmland was transferred to individual households (Chen & Brown, 2001;Watson, 1983;Yep, 2015). The distribution of the farmland was initially based on the combination of household size and household labor supply (Tian, Song, & Boyle, 2012), but after protests from farmers the quality of the farmland was also taken into account (Tian et al, 2012).…”

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Sustainable agricultural development in China

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Multi‐Scale Anthropogenic Driving Forces of Karst Rocky Desertification in Southwest China

2013

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Karst rocky desertification (KRD) is a type of land degradation especially prominent in southwest China. This article analyzes the anthropogenic driving forces of KRD at two scales: rural locality and its macro socio-economic circumstances. At the rural locality scale, the intensive human pressure on land because of a large and fast growing population and unsustainable land use are identified to be the reason for KRD. However, more radical driving forces lie in the farmers' disadvantages in social-economic circumstances, which compel them to overuse rural land. Hukou system, coastal development strategy, and household responsibility system are verified as three important factors in social-economic circumstances. At last, a two-scale framework is constructed to explain how anthropogenic driving forces lead to KRD in southwest China.

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Addressing shortcomings in the Household Responsibility System

Cited by 35 publications

References 8 publications

The Impacts of Temporary Labour Migration on Farming Systems of the Loess Plateau, Gansu Province, China

The Impacts of Temporary Labour Migration on Farming Systems of the Loess Plateau, Gansu Province, China

Sustainable agricultural development in China

Multi‐Scale Anthropogenic Driving Forces of Karst Rocky Desertification in Southwest China

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