Relationships between labor migration and cropland abandonment in rural China from the perspective of village types

Xu, Dingde; Deng, Xin; Huang, Kou‐Yuan; Liu, Yi; Yong, Zhuolin

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104164

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“…Combined with the data characteristics of CLDS2014, abandoned farmland is defined as farmland that did not receive any input in 2013 [1,11,13,35,72]. Thus, in this study, the dependent variable is Farmland abandonment, which is defined as the ratio of abandoned farmland area to total farmland area (%), and is calculated as follow Equation (1):…”

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

Zeng

Xie

et al. 2019

Land

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Labor, land, and funds are keys to revitalizing rural areas around the world. Previous studies have focused on the impacts of funds on agricultural production, but placed little emphasis on its role in agricultural land-use transformation. Thus, this study explores the quantitative relationship between agricultural credit and farmland abandonment from the perspective of rural revitalization. Using data on 8031 households from 27 provinces obtained from China’s Labor Force Dynamics Survey (CLDS), this study uses a Tobit model to examine the quantitative impacts of informal and formal agricultural credit on farmland abandonment. The results indicate that: (1) Access to agricultural credit helps to reduce farmland abandonment. (2) Compared with formal agricultural credit (provided by institutions), informal agricultural credit (provided by family and friends) is more significant in reducing farmland abandonment. Thus, this study enhances our understanding of the relationship between agricultural credit and farmland use. It will also prompt policymakers to improve rural financial markets in order to reduce the misallocation of farmland resources, thereby improving food security and rural economies.

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

Zeng

Xie

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Land

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“…In line with other studies, we found there is heterogeneity in the spatial distribution of regional farmland abandonment [21] in Sichuan Province. Ding (2019) found that the regions with relatively large cropland abandonment rates and size are mainly distributed in the west and south of China (e.g., Sichuan Province, Chongqing Municipality), while the rate of cropland abandonment in the north and northeast area of China is relatively low [46]. Farmland abandonment in Japan exhibits a significantly uneven pattern.…”

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Spatial Heterogeneity of Farmland Abandonment in the Sichuan Province, China

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Peng

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Urbanization and regional geomorphological and agricultural conditions have caused rural hollowing out and a large number of farms to be abandoned, which is a big obstacle to food security and rural industrial development. Sichuan Province is representative of national major grain producing areas and high-quality cultivated protected land in China. This paper reveals the spatial heterogeneity of farmland abandonment in the Sichuan Province. In total, 455 random sample plots were investigated to explore spatial heterogeneity of abandoned farmland in Sichuan Province. In each sample plot, farmland and abandoned farmland patches were mapped. The rate of paddy field abandonment (RPFA), the rate of non-irrigated farmland abandonment (RNFA), and the rate of farmland abandonment (RFA) were calculated as indicators of farmland abandonment. Our results reveal the spatial heterogeneity of abandoned farmland in Sichuan Province, and the clustering characteristics of spatial cold- and hot spots of the RFA. The findings from this study may have importance in rural infrastructure construction and the implementation of a rural revitalization strategy, as well as in making policies to curb abandonment of farmland. The spatial heterogeneity of farmland abandonment revealed in this study may contribute to sustaining food security and farmland protection in China.

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“…On the basis of this possibility, the present study used type IV Tobit models to re-estimate the models. The selection of the instrumental variables was based on the methodology described by [6,8,16,17,56,57], and the average land management scale of other rural households in the same village (other than this rural household) was taken as the land management scale of this rural household to obtain the instrumental variables.…”

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“…Specifically, for rural households in the starting, rearing, burden, stable, and maintenance periods, the proportion of agricultural cash income in the total family cash income decreased, on average, by 6.8%, 6.7%, 9.2%, 3.5%, and 16.3%, respectively.Land 2020, 9, 11 2 of 15 of livelihood strategies [1][2][3][4]. Many of the livelihood strategies of rural households have gradually changed, from agriculturally based to non-agriculturally based [5][6][7][8][9]. However, owing to the long-term, urban-rural dual division system (especially the household registration system), labor migration and land use in China are different from those in other countries [4,10].…”

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Relationships between Land Management Scale and Livelihood Strategy Selection of Rural Households in China from the Perspective of Family Life Cycle

Deng

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Rural households are micro-organizational systems that are composed of different family members. Against a background of fragmented land patterns and massive labor migration in China, it is of great significance for the sustainable development of regional economies to explore the optimal selection of livelihood strategies by rural households. Using a survey containing data from 8031 rural households from 27 provinces in China, this study analyzed the characteristics and spatial distribution trends of the land management scale, family life cycle, and livelihood strategy selection of rural households, and constructed Tobit econometric models to explore the correlations among these factors. The results show: (1) Rural households’ land management scale was primarily small-scale and, as it expanded, the proportion of the total cash income coming from agricultural activities increased. A relative majority of rural households were in the middle period of the family life cycle, and relatively few rural households were in the starting and empty nest periods. The proportion of the total cash income of rural households coming from agricultural pursuits while in the stable and the empty nest periods was relatively large, reaching 40.51% and 38.92%, respectively. In most provinces sampled, rural households’ livelihood strategies were non-agriculturally based, and the land management scale was mainly less than 0.67 ha. (2) Rural households’ land management scale positively correlated with their livelihood strategy selection. When other conditions remained unchanged, with every 1 ha increase in land management scale, the proportion of agricultural cash income in total family cash income increased, on average, by 3.7%. In comparison with rural households in the empty nest period, the proportions of agricultural cash income in the total family cash income of rural households in other family life cycles were relatively small. Specifically, for rural households in the starting, rearing, burden, stable, and maintenance periods, the proportion of agricultural cash income in the total family cash income decreased, on average, by 6.8%, 6.7%, 9.2%, 3.5%, and 16.3%, respectively.

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Relationships between labor migration and cropland abandonment in rural China from the perspective of village types

Cited by 103 publications

References 63 publications

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

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

Spatial Heterogeneity of Farmland Abandonment in the Sichuan Province, China

Relationships between Land Management Scale and Livelihood Strategy Selection of Rural Households in China from the Perspective of Family Life Cycle

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