Demographic change and its impact on farmers' field production decisions

Ji, Yueqing; Hu, Xuezhi; Zhu, Jieming; Fang, Zhong

doi:10.1016/j.chieco.2017.01.006

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“…Rapid urbanization and industrialization have had negative environmental consequences [19] such as significant haze pollution [20]. Furthermore, urbanization has led to demographic changes in both urban and rural areas of China [21], resulting in particular phenomena such as the "elderly village" [17] in which younger people have migrated from rural villages to urban centers. Thus, in order to best formulate effective policies in urban and rural planning it is important to understand residents' attitudes and behavior toward both the environment and their domicile under these changing circumstances.…”

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Environmental Satisfaction, Residential Satisfaction, and Place Attachment: The Cases of Long-Term Residents in Rural and Urban Areas in China

Chen

Hall

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Sustainability

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Drawing on literature from environmental psychology and urban planning, this study evaluates the relationships between environmental satisfaction, residential satisfaction, and place attachment in the context of both rural and urban areas in China. A field survey was carried out with 490 valid questionnaires collected in rural areas and 420 from urban areas in China. Partial least squares path modeling was applied for testing the relationships between the three main constructs. The results indicate a significant mediating role of residential satisfaction between environmental satisfaction and place attachment, suggesting the importance of residential satisfaction in residents’ attachment-building to place. This study also found significant differences between rural and urban contexts with the mediating effect of residential satisfaction being absent from the rural sample.

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Environmental Satisfaction, Residential Satisfaction, and Place Attachment: The Cases of Long-Term Residents in Rural and Urban Areas in China

Chen

Hall

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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“…In the process of rural labor transfer, not only are the labor input quantity and structure changed, but the input-output relationship of agricultural land use is also reshaped through substitution among input factors (Zhong et al, 2016). Many studies have confirmed the substitution effect of capital on labor in agricultural production (e.g., Yang et al, 2013;Ji et al, 2017Ji et al, , 2012, through which the transfer of labor triggers a chain of far-reaching effects that finally affect agricultural land use (Chen et al, 2014).…”

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Off-farm employment and agricultural land use efficiency in China

2021

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The non-agricultural employment transfer of the rural labor force has fundamentally changed the labor input in China in recent decades. A good understanding of how the off-farm employment of rural laborers affects agricultural land use in China is needed. We use the Driscoll and Kraay standard errors fixed effects model to investigate the relationship between rural laborers' off-farm employment and agricultural land use efficiency based on a panel data of 1,961 counties in China. We find that the distribution of county-level agricultural land use efficiency is heavily skewed to the right, with many counties below the national average efficiency level. We also identify a robust U-shaped relationship between off-farm employment and the change in agricultural land use efficiency, indicating that the substitution effect of capital and technology for rural labor has changed from weak to strong. The findings have important policy implications for the joint reform of the household registration (hukou) system and the rural land use system (i.e., the Three Rights Separation Reform) in China. Using the criteria derived from empirical analysis, we also perform content analysis to assess 20 rural land use policies implemented between 2014 and 2020. We find that these documents covered the three important areas to improve rural land use efficiency, that is, rural-urban mobility, rural land rights market development, and rural land rights protection. Although a synergy among the three areas has not yet been achieved, the central government has already put in place policies to enable and support coordinated actions in the three areas. The lessons learned from China also serve as a helpful reference for addressing the challenge of rural labor loss in other developing countries.

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“…As we know, the number of household's laborers allocated to agricultural production is reduced. The migration of household's laborers will directly lead to a decline in the efficiency of agricultural production, and farmland will gradually be abandoned (Gellrich & Zimmermann, 2007; Ji, Hu, Zhu, & Zhong, 2017; Zhao, 1999). In the migration process, wage earnings are considered to be a key factor in the household labor migration and farmland abandonment (Che, 2016; Zhang et al., 2020).…”

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Does household laborer migration promote farmland abandonment in China?

2020

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This paper investigates the effects of household labor migration on rural household decision making over on the abandonment of farmland using 11,413 rural households' data from 2012 to 2016 in China. The results demonstrate that with every 1% increase in the number of 1, 2, 3, or more household migrant laborers, the average probability of rural households' farmland abandonment increases by 2.9%, 5.0%, and 7.8%, respectively. There is an inverted U‐shaped relationship between the average age of household migrant laborers and farmland abandonment. Both off‐farm employment and part‐time employment have positive impacts on farmland abandonment. If the age of the household head is younger, the number of household members is smaller, the village has suffered natural disasters, and village elevation is higher, rural households with laborers migrating are most likely to abandon farmland. As the rural household laborer migrates, the wage earning of rural household increases, which leads to the households gradually giving up management of farmland, which may be an important mechanism for Chinese households abandoning farmland. The establishment of a paid transfer system may be an effective way to solve the issue of farmland abandonment.

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Demographic change and its impact on farmers' field production decisions

Cited by 35 publications

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Environmental Satisfaction, Residential Satisfaction, and Place Attachment: The Cases of Long-Term Residents in Rural and Urban Areas in China

Environmental Satisfaction, Residential Satisfaction, and Place Attachment: The Cases of Long-Term Residents in Rural and Urban Areas in China

Off-farm employment and agricultural land use efficiency in China

Does household laborer migration promote farmland abandonment in China?

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