Power of Agricultural Credit in Farmland Abandonment: Evidence from Rural China

Du, Jun; Zeng, Miao; Xie, Zhengjuan; Wang, Shikun

doi:10.3390/land8120184

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“…However, due to the restriction of the land quality equalization policy applied when land is contracted for production and assigned to households, cultivated land in the vast, hilly areas of China tends to be "small, scattered, and weak" [8]. With the development of the social economy, the small, scattered, and weak land-use problem has become increasingly prominent and has gradually become a major restriction to China's rural economic development and food security [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. With the continuous industrialization and urbanization of China, the household contract responsibility system, which features decentralized management, is increasingly unable to meet the needs of modern agricultural development, which is characterized by "marketization, scale, and informatization" [17].…”

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Does off-Farm Migration of Female Laborers Inhibit Land Transfer? Evidence from Sichuan Province, China

Huang

Deng

Liu

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With the feminization of agriculture, the role of women in the rural land transfer market is becoming increasingly important. However, at present, there is little research focusing on the relationship between the off-farm migration of female laborers and land transfer rates. Using data on 1652 agricultural land plots owned by 232 rural households in Sichuan Province in 2014, IV-Probit (The Probit model of tool variable method is added) and IV-Tobit (The Tobit model of tool variable method is added) models were constructed to explore the relationships between off-farm migration and rural household land transfer (whether the rural households have land transfer-in and the area of land transfer-in by rural households) with consideration of gender. The results show that: (1) Off-farm labor migration has a negative and significant impact on rural households’ land transfer-in rates. Under the same conditions, the off-farm migration rate increased by 10%, the probability of transfer-in land decreased by 2.6% on average, and the transfer-in area decreased by 2.7 mu on average. (2) The off-farm migration of female laborers inhibited land transfer-in rates. For every 10% increase in female labor migration, the probability of land transfer-in decreased by an average of 2.1%, and the land transfer-in area was reduced by an average of 3 mu (1 mu = 667 m2 or 0.067 ha). However, the impact of male labor migration on farmers’ land transfer-in is negative and not significant. This study provides a novel, gendered perspective to understand land transfer-in behaviors in hilly areas, which can provide further information on off-farm labor migration and the rational allocation of land resources.

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Does off-Farm Migration of Female Laborers Inhibit Land Transfer? Evidence from Sichuan Province, China

Huang

Deng

Liu

et al. 2020

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“…As a result, although the government has been promulgating policies to accelerate agricultural development and farmland protection in rural areas, the farmland abandonment problem has not been effectively solved so far [11,31,32]. However, the overall trend of farmland abandonment is in line with the broader economic trends in China [9,17,18]. Based on the above statistics and statement, it is clear that farmland abandonment is related to industrialization and urbanization.…”

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“…It is clear that the reasons affecting abandonment listed by Shi et al also include the factor of farmers’ income. Besides, social capital and agricultural credit will also affect farmland abandonment through the opportunity cost of farming labor [ 16 , 17 , 18 ]. Above all, the income of rural households, including agricultural income and non-agricultural income, is the main direct factor affecting farmland abandonment.…”

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Analysis of Farmland Abandonment and Government Supervision Traps in China

Shan

Ying

2021

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Farmland abandonment has become relatively common in rural China. In the context of food security, the Chinese government has introduced policies for farmland abandonment supervision, but the effect of these policies has proven to be marginal. By constructing an evolutionary game model, our research explores the evolutionary logic during the supervision of farmland abandonment by governments and rural households. The results indicate that low food yield and high opportunity costs are the leading causes of farmland abandonment. The probable punishment administered by the central government for dereliction is a major motivation for the local government to practice farmland abandonment supervision. The low supervision avoidance cost for rural households leads local governments and households to form collaborations to jointly cope with central government supervision. When this occurs, local governments’ supervision of farmland abandonment falls into a trap, as it leads to continued supervision practices that are costly and ineffective. Food security risk comes from the contradictory population and land resources demands. To improve food security while managing these contradictory demands, it is both necessary and feasible for the government to control population growth and focus on farmland protection, whereas it is unnecessary and unfeasible for the government to supervise whether or not farmland should be abandoned.

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“…More specifically, it has brought various environmental problems, such as ecological deterioration, resource scarcity, land degradation, overall climate change, and a comprehensive decline in urban land use. Even in some rural areas, there has been a phenomenon of abandoned farmland [ 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 ]. As a result, these problems have heavily affected the sustainable development of the regional economy and society as well as human well-being.…”

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The Coupling and Coordinated Development from Urban Land Using Benefits and Urbanization Level: Case Study from Fujian Province (China)

Wang

Tang

Chen

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In recent years, urbanization has been developing rapidly. However, it is also accompanied by land management problems, such as low land use efficiency. In this research, we manage to explore the temporal and spatial evolution laws as well as characteristics of the coupling and coordinated development between urbanization and land use benefits. Through this, it is possible for us to provide policy recommendations for the sustainable development of the urbanization in Fujian Province. In this study, we take prefecture-level municipal districts and county-level cities in Fujian as the research subject. We construct an index system, based on data in 2002, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2017, to evaluate the urban land use benefits and urbanization. Besides, we leverage the Gini coefficient weighting method to give weight to each index and calculate the value of its benefits. Moreover, it is the relative development degree and the coupling coordination degree model that we comprehensively leverage to study the spatiotemporal evolution law of the coupling coordination degree (CCD). The results show that: (1) Urban land use benefits and urbanization level are positively correlated with the regional administrative level and economic development status; (2) The CCD of urban land use benefits and urbanization level in various regions of Fujian is still low. However, the overall development direction is good; (3) From the perspective of spatial distribution, the CCD owns a “center-periphery” pattern that is based on the law of diminishing CCD power from three central cities of Fuzhou, Xiamen, and Sanming. Consequently, it requires governments to take action. Firstly, they should promote the intensive land use in the urbanization process. Meanwhile, they should also pay attention to ecological environment protection. Besides, it is recommendable to give full play to the radiating and leading effect of central cities on surrounding ones. Finally, they are required to provide appropriate policies and resource support to peripheral cities.

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Power of Agricultural Credit in Farmland Abandonment: Evidence from Rural China

Cited by 31 publications

References 77 publications

Does off-Farm Migration of Female Laborers Inhibit Land Transfer? Evidence from Sichuan Province, China

Does off-Farm Migration of Female Laborers Inhibit Land Transfer? Evidence from Sichuan Province, China

Analysis of Farmland Abandonment and Government Supervision Traps in China

The Coupling and Coordinated Development from Urban Land Using Benefits and Urbanization Level: Case Study from Fujian Province (China)

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