Changes in and prospects for cultivated land use since the reform and opening up in China

Lai, Zhaohao; Mei-qiu, Chen; Liu, Taoju

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104781

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“…The impact of rural land circulation on farmers ' this has resulted in a dramatic decrease in the production of grain, thus severely challenging national food security [27,41,42].…”

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Will land circulation sway “grain orientation”? The impact of rural land circulation on farmers’ agricultural planting structures

Peng

Chen

et al. 2021

PLoS ONE

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This study calculates the effect of different types of land circulation on farmers’ decision-making regarding agricultural planting structure, using field survey data involving 1,120 households in Hubei province, China, and PSM (propensity score matching) and GPSM (general propensity score matching) methods. Results from PSM showed that land circulation could significantly increase farmers’ decisions to plant food crops, which confirms the positive effect of rural land circulation on the “grain orientation” of crop planting structure. Results from GPSM further indicate that the total land circulation, the paddy land circulation, and the dry land circulation all have significantly positive effects on planting structure adjustment towards “grain orientation.” Additionally, planting structure adjustment towards “grain orientation” increases as the scale of land circulation increases, and the former shows a higher rate of increase than the latter, which confirms that rural land circulation facilitates an adjustment in structure towards planting food crops.

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“…The impact of rural land circulation on farmers ' this has resulted in a dramatic decrease in the production of grain, thus severely challenging national food security [27,41,42].…”

Section: Plos Onementioning

confidence: 99%

Will land circulation sway “grain orientation”? The impact of rural land circulation on farmers’ agricultural planting structures

Peng

Chen

et al. 2021

PLoS ONE

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“…The cultivated land quantity of 31 provinces in China varies greatly, with the largest difference of 1584.57 × 10 4 ha in Heilongjiang Province and 19.16 × 10 4 ha in Shanghai at the minimum, with a difference of 82.7 times between them. To reflect the total amount of cultivated land resources in the province and the actual situation in China, the following formula is used to calculate I TA : 100 max   TA TA I i TA (12) In Eq. (12), TA i is the total area of cultivated land in province i.…”

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“…GAO et al [11] (2019) have analyzed the change of cultivated land spatial and temporal characteristics of China from 1990 to 2015 based on the geomorphic zoning. LAI et al [12] (2020) analyzed the change of cultivated land use of China since the reform and opening up period. In addition, there were plenty of the studies of cultivated land quantity change.…”

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Comprehensive Evaluation of Cultivated Land Resources in China Based on Three Dimensions: Quantity, Quality and Ecology Danger

Yang

Liu

2021

E3S Web Conf.

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Based on TOPSIS-Grey Relational Analysis Method, the three dimensions of cultivated land quantity, quality and ecological danger are organically integrated to build a comprehensive evaluation indicator system of practical and national cultivated land resources and quantitative calculation method by taking the province-level administrative region as the evaluation unit. The index of cultivated land quantity, quality, and ecological danger and the comprehensive index of cultivated land resources are calculated quantitatively in 31 province-level administrative regions of China. The comprehensive endowment and superiority of cultivated land resources in each province are also analysed systematically. The results show that there are 10 provinces (municipalities directly under the Central Government and autonomous regions) classified as “high superiority” provinces in terms of cultivated land resources. There are 9 provinces classified as “relatively high superiority” provinces. The dominant types of cultivated land resources in China can be classified into six types: superiority type of quantity, superiority type of quantity and ecology, superiority type of quality and ecology, superiority type of ecology, comprehensive superiority type, and unclear superiority type. Most provinces have a certain “single superiority”, “double superiority”, or “comprehensive superiority”.

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“…For example, the Grain to Green Program (GTGP) converts cropland on steep slopes to forest and grassland, and mainly relates to structural changes in forestry and agriculture [10,62]. Additionally, the income of Chinese farmers has improved since the reform of the "household contract responsibility system", but farmers' dependence on farming income driven by intensively farmed land is still very high, which reduces and threatens the ecological and financial contribution of some ES [56,63,64]. On the other hand, the underlying implication of ES attention is farmers' insight that conventional agriculture practice endanger ES, combined with the willingness to protect and restore ES [1,[65][66][67][68].…”

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How Does Improve Farmers’ Attitudes toward Ecosystem Services to Support Sustainable Development of Agriculture? Based on Environmental Kuznets Curve Theory

Yang

Chen

et al. 2020

Sustainability

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Agroecosystems are complex socio-ecological systems that are managed by farmers to achieve desired outcomes, including economic income and environmental benefits contributed by ecosystem services (ES). Therefore, understanding farmers’ attitudes for ES will provide references for targeted agricultural environment management, which is critical to achieving the sustainable development of agriculture. The aim of this study is to identify the attitudes of farmers regarding ES, and to test whether and how annual household income and social demographic characteristics affect farmers’ attitudes toward ES. Using face-to-face interviews to collect data and the hypothesis of environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) to provide an analytical framework, the results reveal that, in general, the perceptions of farmers’ attitudes on ES are highly complex, caused by characteristics of the farmers. Furthermore, the inflection points of the U-shaped curves, where priorities change from increasing income to paying more attention to waste assimilation and biological pest control, are identified at 17,091 and 25,071RMB, respectively. Initiatives that aim to achieve sustainable agricultural development by strengthening ES provisions should be sensitive to farmers’perceptions. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen farmers’ educational attainment, concentrate fragmented cultivation area and create reasonable incentives for preserving and restoring of ES and increasing farmers’ income together, which then can enhance the positive outcomes from income growth.

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Changes in and prospects for cultivated land use since the reform and opening up in China

Cited by 91 publications

References 45 publications

Will land circulation sway “grain orientation”? The impact of rural land circulation on farmers’ agricultural planting structures

Will land circulation sway “grain orientation”? The impact of rural land circulation on farmers’ agricultural planting structures

Comprehensive Evaluation of Cultivated Land Resources in China Based on Three Dimensions: Quantity, Quality and Ecology Danger

How Does Improve Farmers’ Attitudes toward Ecosystem Services to Support Sustainable Development of Agriculture? Based on Environmental Kuznets Curve Theory

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