Securing property rights in transition: Lessons from implementation of China's rural land contracting law

Deininger, Klaus; Deininger, Klaus

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2009.01.001

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“…In situations characterized by structural change, land rental markets can help move toward a less sub-optimal distribution of operational farm sizes through efficiency-enhancing transfers from producers with low levels of productivity and no comparative advantage in agriculture to more efficient ones (Deininger & Jin, 2009). As this does not require any change in land ownership, land owners, even if they give up self-cultivation, will not have to forsake key benefits from land ownership, e.g., the ability to use land as collateral for loans that might enable them to start non-agricultural enterprises (Deininger & Feder, 2001;Swinnen, Vranken, & Stanley, 2006).…”

Section: (B) Land Rental Market Functioningmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Land Fragmentation, Cropland Abandonment, and Land Market Operation in Albania

2012

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Section: (B) Land Rental Market Functioningmentioning

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“…To formulate hypotheses that can be tested with our data, we draw on a model developed in greater detail elsewhere (Deininger & Jin, 2009) and reproduced in the appendix. We let households be endowed with fixed amounts of labor and land and an exogenous level of agricultural ability.…”

Section: (B) Land Rental Market Functioningmentioning

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Land Fragmentation, Cropland Abandonment, and Land Market Operation in Albania

2012

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“…Successive land reforms in rural China, have provided peasant farmers with usufruct rights with different lease lengths, but it is widely argued that they have done little to enhance land tenure security [55,56]. (For instance, the 2007 Property Law granted farmers the right to retain and inherit their land rights when the 30-year period is ended, implicitly giving farmers perpetual possession of land in the future [57]. In 2008, the central government further extended the land contract period from thirty years to an unspecified "long-term" period and it was also specified that land certificates should be issued to farmers [56,58].)…”

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“…One main reason for this is that the central government has not clarified how the legal and institutional arrangements should be implemented [59,60]. Thus, these rules have not been effectively enforced [57,61]. As a result, unintended policy outcomes have occurred.…”

Section: The Theoretical Links Between Intercropping and Incomementioning

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Assessing the Effect of a Crop-Tree Intercropping Program on Smallholders’ Incomes in Rural Xinjiang, China

2017

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Governments in developing counties often promote intercropping (crops intercropped with fruit trees on cultivated land) schemes in order to improve smallholders' income. However, the implementation of such schemes is often hindered by inappropriate institutional environments and inefficient project management. It is important to assess the impacts of such intercropping programs, especially since such a cultivation strategy can often align closely with smallholders' livelihood strategies, particularly in poor and remote rural regions. This paper attempts to assess the impact of an intercropping program on participants' incomes in rural Xinjiang (China), and to explore the possible shortcomings in the program's design and implementation. We apply a propensity score matching method, based on a survey dataset of 352 households, supplemented with descriptive analysis based on our anecdotal field observations. The findings demonstrate that the intercropping program had negative effects on the incomes that participants derived from farming, their off-farm income and their gross income. Overall, participants experienced significant losses of income. Anecdotal observations show that land tenure insecurity played a crucial role in negating the anticipated income improvement effect of this program. Farmer's perceptions that they have limited security of tenure made them reluctant to invest the necessary time and resources to make the new cropping systems a success, while the available subsidies only partially covered the costs involved. In addition, the program led to a significant drop in yields of field crops as the trees were competing for a limiting and fixed supply of irrigation water.

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“…National level legal reforms such as the Land Administrative Law of 1986 and an amended version passed in 1998 established the legal principle of land-use rights that were enforceable in the courts, and (in principle) proscribed the use of eminent domain, thus providing protection from unreasonable seizure by state agencies without fair compensation (Ding, 2007). Unjust land expropriation has been an issue in China especially along the urban-rural fringe where local government officials seek to acquire urban land through "administrative readjustment" of rural land, and this has prompted additional reforms such as the 2003 rural land contracting law (Deininger & Jin, 2009). Some of the same issues arise within urban areas, as the limits of eminent domain are tested in practice.…”

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Environmentalism with Chinese Characteristics? Urban River Revitalization in Foshan

Heikkila

2011

Planning Theory & Practice

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Human settlements have long been located on rivers, and the relationship of the place to the river functions as a deep reflection of its historical, cultural, and socio-economic traditions. This paper explores urban river revitalization in contemporary China, focusing particularly on ongoing efforts to clean up Foshan's polluted Fenjiang River. The research shows that the traditional cultural status of the waterway, which is known as the "Mother River" of Foshan, plays a paradoxically pivotal role in the project to modernize it. Interacting in complex ways with domestic and international political concerns, and popular media and internet technologies, the cultural status of the river has helped to determine both the type of environmental movement that has emerged in its defence, and the community of interests that serves as a proxy for civil society in that movement. Ultimately, this paper argues that the unique configuration of institutions and actors engaged in the Fenjiang River restoration project are emblematic of a new type of "environmentalism with Chinese characteristics."

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Securing property rights in transition: Lessons from implementation of China's rural land contracting law

Cited by 126 publications

References 79 publications

Land Fragmentation, Cropland Abandonment, and Land Market Operation in Albania

Land Fragmentation, Cropland Abandonment, and Land Market Operation in Albania

Assessing the Effect of a Crop-Tree Intercropping Program on Smallholders’ Incomes in Rural Xinjiang, China

Environmentalism with Chinese Characteristics? Urban River Revitalization in Foshan

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