An evaluation of contemporary China’s land use policy – The Link Policy: A case study from Ezhou, Hubei Province

Cheng, Long; Brown, Gregory G.; Liu, Yan; Searle, Glen

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104423

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“…With China being a socialist country, the state owns all urban land, while rural collectives have ownership over rural land [8]. The administration of a rural collective was generally at the village level.…”

Section: A Short Note About the Categorization Of Land In Chinamentioning

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Post-Resettlement Support Policies, Psychological Factors, and Farmers’ Homestead Exit Intention and Behavior

Shi

Vanclay

2022

Land

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Ex situ poverty alleviation relocation (ESPAR) is a Chinese government program created to address rural poverty and land management issues. Affecting around 10 million people, the process involves encouraging smallholder farmers to leave their rural homesteads and move to new housing. By consolidating people into medium density accommodation, the amount of land available for other purposes can be increased. However, some farmers were reluctant to move, and many of those who accepted new housing failed to demolish their homestead and rehabilitate the land as required. This paper applies the ‘extended theory of planned behavior’ to examine the factors that influence farmers’ exit intention and behavior. Face-to-face interviews were carried out in Southern Shaanxi Province, China. Data relating to 830 farmers were analyzed using Structural Equation Modelling. Our most important finding is that farmers had a poor perception of the post-relocation support, and this retarded their exit intention and behavior. We conclude that it is essential to improve post-relocation support, enhance the autonomy of farmers, and formulate relocation plans according to people’s age and likely future occupation.

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Section: A Short Note About the Categorization Of Land In Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%

Post-Resettlement Support Policies, Psychological Factors, and Farmers’ Homestead Exit Intention and Behavior

Shi

Vanclay

2022

Land

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“…This has prompted countries such as Myanmar and Vietnam to attempt to constrain the practice so that crop production can be maintained [69,72,73]. Interference is an especially sensitive issue in China, where arable land is limited, land preservation for grain production is a national priority, and aquaculture is officially recognized as a source of land loss [28,74,75]. More than 225,000 ha of China's cultivated land, much of it in fertile coastal provinces, were nevertheless converted to fish ponds between just 1988 and 1995 [75], but countervailing forces are also at play.…”

Section: Tradeoffs Between Semi-closed Aquaculture and Agriculturementioning

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Water and Land as Shared Resources for Agriculture and Aquaculture: Insights from Asia

Pueppke

Nurtazin

2020

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Although agriculture and aquaculture depend on access to increasingly scarce, shared water resources to produce food for human consumption, they are most often considered in isolation. We argue that they should be treated as integrated components of a single complex system that is prone to direct or indirect tradeoffs that should be avoided while also being amenable to synergies that should be sought. Direct tradeoffs such as competition for space or the pollution of shared water resources usually occur when the footprints of agriculture and aquaculture overlap or when the two practices coexist in close proximity to one another. Interactions can be modulated by factors such as hydropower infrastructure and short-term economic incentives, both of which are known to disrupt the balance between aquaculture and agriculture. Indirect tradeoffs, on the other hand, play out across distances, i.e., when agricultural food sources are diverted to feed animals in aquaculture. Synergies are associated with the culture of aquatic organisms in rice paddies and irrigation waters, seasonal rotations of crop cultivation with aquaculture, and various forms of integrated agriculture–aquaculture (IAA), including jitang, a highly developed variant of pond-dike IAA. Policy decisions, socioeconomic considerations, and technology warrant increased scrutiny as determinants of tradeoffs and synergies. Priority issues for the future include guiding the expansion of aquaculture from its traditional base in Asia, taking advantage of the heterogeneity that exists within both agricultural and aquaculture systems, the development of additional metrics of tradeoffs and synergies, and adapting to the effects of climate change.

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“…All these behaviors will affect the quality of cultivated land and may threaten the security of cultivated land and food in cases of disordered development. The behavior of excavating aquaculture ponds has been widely considered as an important cause of the decrease in cultivated lands [ 7 ]. Increasingly more cultivated lands are occupied by aquaculture ponds [ 8 ].…”

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Research on Expansion Characteristics of Aquaculture Ponds and Variations in Ecosystem Service Value from the Perspective of Protecting Cultivated Lands: A Case Study of Liyang City, China

Zhao

Wang

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IJERPH

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In the context of global food insecurity, a large amount of cultivated land in China has been occupied by aquaculture ponds, leading to a series of variations in the ecological environment. The Chinese government pays close attention to the problem. In order to achieve sustainable development and ensure the safety of China’s cultivated land, the paper uses Liyang City as an example to discuss the spatial characteristics of the expansion of aquaculture ponds through occupying cultivated lands and analyzes the variations in ecosystem service value and cultivated land function. The conclusions are as follows: (1) 2073.24 hectares of cultivated lands were occupied for expanding aquaculture ponds in Liyang from 2009 to 2019, and there was a small number of new aquaculture ponds in the ecological protection area, which shows that the aquaculture ponds in Liyang City are at the stage of disorderly expansion; (2) the total value of ecosystem services increased by 1.43%; supply and support services values decreased, but the increase in regulation and cultural services values was sufficient to more than compensate for the mentioned losses; and (3) the expansion of aquaculture ponds leads to a decrease in the carbon storage of cultivated land, which in turn has negative impacts such as an increase in atmospheric carbon concentration.

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An evaluation of contemporary China’s land use policy – The Link Policy: A case study from Ezhou, Hubei Province

Cited by 29 publications

References 63 publications

Post-Resettlement Support Policies, Psychological Factors, and Farmers’ Homestead Exit Intention and Behavior

Post-Resettlement Support Policies, Psychological Factors, and Farmers’ Homestead Exit Intention and Behavior

Water and Land as Shared Resources for Agriculture and Aquaculture: Insights from Asia

Research on Expansion Characteristics of Aquaculture Ponds and Variations in Ecosystem Service Value from the Perspective of Protecting Cultivated Lands: A Case Study of Liyang City, China

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