Conflict and Consensus Building on Farmland Replotting

Nakajima, Shinsaku; Arimoto, Yutaka

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“…On the one hand, the state control of individual plots has been carried over as the stream of a 'leasehold right.' This stream builds on the ALA that has maintained the conditions advantageous for existing cultivators despite its repeated amendments to relax the tenancy restrictions since the first revision in 1962 (Arimoto and Nakajima, 2010;Imamura, 2003). One such condition is the 'legal renewal' by which a contract cannot be canceled or terminated without official procedures (Arimoto and Nakajima, 2010).…”

Section: Emergence Of the New Tenancy Modelmentioning

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“…This stream builds on the ALA that has maintained the conditions advantageous for existing cultivators despite its repeated amendments to relax the tenancy restrictions since the first revision in 1962 (Arimoto and Nakajima, 2010;Imamura, 2003). One such condition is the 'legal renewal' by which a contract cannot be canceled or terminated without official procedures (Arimoto and Nakajima, 2010). The leasehold right is associated with this 'legal renewal,' allowing for automatic renewal of contracts and thus making formal tenancy arrangements rather rigid.…”

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“…On the other hand, another stream free from 'legal renewal' has emerged to actively promote tenancy by establishing a 'use right' that ceases to be in effect upon the completion of a contract. This allows owners to claim back their farmland without official approval, enabling them to lend their farmland to others without fear of losing the de facto land ownership (Arimoto and Nakajima, 2010).…”

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Japanese land reform in the new era? Farmers’ wellbeing and sustainable farmland management

Nishi

2022

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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This paper examines farmers’ responses to the state initiative of reforming the farmland tenancy institution in Japan. In 2014, Japan’s government launched a new intermediary mechanism for farmland tenancy, called Farmland Banks (FBs), in an attempt to revitalize the farming sector and redress farmland abandonment. FB agencies, established as regional semipublic organizations, promote tenancy on large farms to generate economies of scale: the utter opposite of the post-1945 land reform that undid the prewar landlordism. The study explores why and how farmers have adopted the FB program. Recent studies attend to social and cultural factors influencing landowners’ decisions on land use rather than individual maximization of net economic benefits. However, it remains unclear how farmers negotiate their needs and interests in the process of governing farmland, which involves multiple other actors. Taking the case study approach to one pioneer case of the program adoption, the study expounds that farmers individually and socially negotiated multiple dimensions of wellbeing to accept and tailor the new tenancy arrangements introduced through the FB program. While contributing to the attainment of the national goals, the program adoption reformed the local agricultural landscape, whereby farmers’ tangible and intangible connections to farmland became drastically minimized. This has posed a threat to sustainable farmland management by increasingly disconnecting people from farmland. The study suggests that closer attention to the social and cultural dimensions of farmers’ wellbeing would complementarily remedy the current agricultural policy that skews toward economic and technical dimensions.

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Section: Emergence Of the New Tenancy Modelmentioning

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Section: Emergence Of the New Tenancy Modelmentioning

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Section: Emergence Of the New Tenancy Modelmentioning

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Nishi

2022

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“…However, organizational resource allocation associated with collective decision-making, such as Kanchi and Kokan Bungo, is likely to generate conflicts of interest, making consensus-building difficult （Ishida et al ., 1990 ;Nohmi, 1995 ;Nakajima et al, 2011 ;Fukuyo, 2002） . It is therefore necessary to design and propose a new, more desirable system that can facilitate smooth implementation of Kanchi or Kokan Bungo.…”

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Farmland Consolidation by Plot Exchange : A Simulation-based Approach

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Nakajima

Tomita

2016

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This paper quantitatively examines by simulation the extent to which plot exchange can consolidate fragmented farmland. We first show that individual, decentralized, one-to-one plot exchanges, which are currently conducted by some leading farmers, cannot accomplish sufficient consolidation. This is because occurrences of "double-coincidence-of-wants" necessary for voluntary exchange are too few. We then propose a collective, centralized approach, based on the top trading cycle algorithm by Shapley et al., in which many farmers simultaneously exchange plots. This approach mitigates the restriction of "double-coincidence-ofwants" and can raise the consolidation rate to more than twice that of the individual-decentralized exchange. We also find that the consolidation rate improves dramatically as more farmers participate in the exchange. Our results suggest that it is essential to attract as many farmers as possible and to conduct collective and centralized allocation of plots in order to attain better consolidation.

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Conflict and Consensus Building on Farmland Replotting

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Japanese land reform in the new era? Farmers’ wellbeing and sustainable farmland management

Japanese land reform in the new era? Farmers’ wellbeing and sustainable farmland management

Farmland Consolidation by Plot Exchange : A Simulation-based Approach

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