Determinants of Local Public Policies for Farmland Preservation and Urban Expansion: A French Illustration

Chanel, Olivier; Delattre, Laurence; Napoléone, Claude

doi:10.3368/le.90.3.411

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“…The third range of factors relates to the local nature and dynamics of farming systems. Agriculture characteristics-such as relative agricultural profitability, local agricultural organizations, and the image of the agricultural sector-have a significant impact on the adoption of local FP policies [108]. In the French Provence, for instance, organic farming with high profitability appears to be an ally in the preservation of farmland on the urban fringe (ibid.).…”

Section: Farmland Protection Policies Must Be Adapted To Local Contextsmentioning

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Preserving Farmland on the Urban Fringe: A Literature Review on Land Policies in Developed Countries

Perrin

Clément

Melot

et al. 2020

Land

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This paper reviews the recent literature dealing with farmland protection (FP) policies in developed countries from a planning perspective, with a specific focus on the Mediterranean region. It provides coverage of French language papers that may have been omitted in previous reviews. While the Mediterranean is often pointed out as a region with acute challenges related to food security and a lack of effective planning policies, the literature underlines that issues related to FP policies are similar across the world. Hence, this review may bring valuable insights for more sustainable management of farmland on the urban fringe. It maps several interesting areas of research concerning the often implicit and disparate rationales of FP policies as well as the barriers and potential avenues for improvement for FP. It highlights that FP cannot rely merely on transferring policy tools that have proven successful elsewhere. It also reveals that land policies do not always take into account the specific needs of farming systems, as they often focus on land rather than on agriculture. Further research is thus needed to reveal the interaction over time between the use of certain FP tools and the unique local features of urban fringe agriculture. This review may be of interest to students and scholars, but also to practitioners, policy makers and local groups looking for innovative, more flexible or locally suited farmland protection programs.

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Section: Farmland Protection Policies Must Be Adapted To Local Contextsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Preserving Farmland on the Urban Fringe: A Literature Review on Land Policies in Developed Countries

Perrin

Clément

Melot

et al. 2020

Land

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“…The first one is providing financial support. Although land urbanization is a relatively complicated process of change, economic development has always been the fundamental driving force for improving the utilization rate of land, expanding the urban demand, and increasing the proportion of rural surplus labors to cities [25]. While benefiting from economic development, the further improvement of land urbanization construction has continuously increased the efficiency of urban R&D levels, and thereby, the economic development has been promoted [26].…”

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Does Financial Excess Support Land Urbanization—An Empirical Study of Cities in China

Li,

Zou,

Tan

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Most countries have experienced land urbanization, which is indispensable for financial support, especially for their financing function achievement through land appreciation and other channels in the urbanization process. By using 34 provincial capital (sub-provinces) cities in China as the sample, this paper studies the impact of finance on land urbanization construction based on the panel data from 2003 to 2018 under a differential GMM method; besides, the causes of excessive financial support and results generated on different regions are reported. Moreover, a moderate range of financial support for land urbanization is found under the influence of land finance. We obtain the following results: first, there is excessive financial support for land urbanization with regional differences exhibited; for instance, the eastern and central regions have an excessive financial support but the western region does not. Second, land urbanization with an excessive financial support correlates with financial efficiency, while the relatively large financial efficiency leads to the waste of a large number of financial resources. Third, financial support has a single and significant threshold effect on land urbanization construction, and finance has a promoting effect when land finance is less than the threshold value; otherwise, it has an inhibiting effect.

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“…For farmers or governments, their willingness to preserve farmland may change. Relative agricultural profitability has a negative effect on farmland depletion (Chanel et al., 2014). When the exchange value for non-agricultural use exceeds the agricultural use value, a farmer would become more unwilling to preserve farmland (Duncan, 1984), and local governments would also become increasingly reluctant to support farmland preservation (Daniels, 1990).…”

Section: ‘Upward-extending’ Unwillingness To Protect Farmlandmentioning

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“…Regarding the change of farmland protection policy, some studies highlight the role of public discourse and environmental and agrarian ideology (Bunce, 1998; Feitelson, 1999; Steiner, 1988). Other studies emphasize the role of political factors on farmland protection policy formulation, such as the influence of interest groups (Chanel et al., 2014; Kashian and Skidmore, 2002), the impact of the interaction between governments at different levels (Sokolow, 2010), and the significance of fiscal factors, such as tax burden shifts (Kashian and Skidmore, 2002). Some policy failures in growth management also have caused changes in farmland protection change (Pond, 2009).…”

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Growing centralization in China’s farmland protection policy in response to policy failure and related upward-extending unwillingness to protect farmland since 1978

Zhong

Mitchell

Scott

et al. 2017

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Since 1978, China has experienced a rapid loss of arable land, leading to centralizing of farmland protection policies. To understand the growing centralization, this paper has used the lens of the interactions among (1) unwillingness to protect farmland among diverse actors, (2) policy failure and (3) policy change. The growing centralization is an adaptive response to the unwillingness to protect farmland from local up to provincial government levels, and its associated policy failure. The article suggests that gradual centralization over the last almost 40 years has gone through three phases: centralization to county-level, centralization to provincial-level, and intensifying technical supervision from central government. In the first phase, the unwillingness to preserve farmland appeared at the levels of the rural household, village and township; in the second phase, county- and prefecture-level governments began to lose willingness to preserve farmland; and, in the third phase, provincial governments’ willingness to preserve farmland weakened. The current centralized system has succeeded, for the most part, in addressing the problem of asymmetric information about farmland preservation between central and local governments, but the basic planning problem regarding loss of farmland remains a challenge.

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Determinants of Local Public Policies for Farmland Preservation and Urban Expansion: A French Illustration

Abstract: JELCode: R14; R52; Q24. Keywords: local land use policy; urban sprawl; econometrics and qualitative approaches; political economy.

Cited by 24 publications

References 51 publications

Preserving Farmland on the Urban Fringe: A Literature Review on Land Policies in Developed Countries

Preserving Farmland on the Urban Fringe: A Literature Review on Land Policies in Developed Countries

Does Financial Excess Support Land Urbanization—An Empirical Study of Cities in China

Growing centralization in China’s farmland protection policy in response to policy failure and related upward-extending unwillingness to protect farmland since 1978

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