Does off-farm employment contribute to agriculture-based environmental pollution? New insights from a village-level analysis in Jiangxi Province, China

Shi, Xiaoping; Heerink, Nico; Qu, F.

doi:10.1016/j.chieco.2010.08.003

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“…This result conforms to previous studies arguing that the use of chemical inputs increases with off-farm employment, as farm households tend to substitute fertilizers for labour and have additional incomes for buying inputs [47]. This result is contrary to the study of Shi et al which finds that off-farm employment reduces the level of fertilizer input in agricultural production [18]. However, their findings are restricted to a single village in Jiangxi Province and limited insights can be derived about other regions of China.…”

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“…Smith and Siciliano provide an original synthesis of complex and inter-related factors that contribute to the excessive use of fertilizer in China [17]. Shi et al use a hybrid household-village CEG model to examine the relationship between off-farm employment and the use of chemical fertilizers in agricultural production [18]. Using panel econometric methods, Jiang et al investigate the relationship between urban expansion and agricultural land use intensity at the national scale [19].…”

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Urbanization and the Change of Fertilizer Use Intensity for Agricultural Production in Henan Province

Jiang

2016

Sustainability

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China's urbanization has resulted in significant changes in agricultural land use. However, understanding of the linkages between urbanization and fertilizer use intensity is limited. Using county-level panel data for Henan Province, 1995Province, -2008 and panel econometric models, we investigate the impact of urbanization and other socioeconomic factors on fertilizer use intensity, with a focus on the two key processes related to urbanization-shrinking agricultural land area and increasing urban wages. Our results show that declining agricultural land per capita is associated with greater fertilizer use intensity. Urban wages is positively correlated with fertilizer use intensity. We also find that GDP per capita and per capita expenditure of government for agriculture both positively contribute to the increase of fertilizer use intensity, which is consistent with expectations. Our results imply that other than land conversion, urbanization contains some positive influences on land use sustainability. However, on the other hand, urbanization contributes to agriculture-based environmental pollution by increasing the level of fertilizer use in agricultural production.

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Urbanization and the Change of Fertilizer Use Intensity for Agricultural Production in Henan Province

Jiang

2016

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“…Increased tenure security may stimulate temporary migration (e.g., Ma et al, 2016). 3 Temporary migration in its turn can reduce the efficiency of farm management practices, especially when the hiring of agricultural labor to replace family labor incurs prohibitively large transaction costs or when hired labor is not as efficient as family labor (Feng et al, 2010;Shi et al, 2011). An example is the application of large quantities of fertilizers or water at the time of planting or sowing by temporary migrating households, instead of more efficient applications that are spread over time and depend on the requirements for plant growth.…”

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Land tenure security and technical efficiency: new insights from a case study in Northwest China

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Feng³

et al. 2017

Envir. Dev. Econ.

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ABSTRACT. Improving technical efficiency in agriculture can play an important role in meeting present and future demands for agricultural products, at the same time enhancing the long-term sustainability of land and water use. This paper examines the impact Financial support for the research was provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (71373127, 71573134, 71322301) of household perceptions of land tenure security on technical efficiency using detailed household-level data collected in Minle County in northwest China. The authors find that the (perceived) tenure security provided by land certificates encourages part-time farming with relatively low technical efficiency. The renting out of land by households with migrant members can only partly make up for this negative effect, because land rental markets are thin and highly fragmented. Therefore, the provision of land certificates to rural households has a negative impact on technical efficiency. For tenure security provided by the expected absence of land reallocations in the near future, on the other hand, the authors find that it reduces temporary migration and thereby contributes to higher technical efficiency.

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“…Rice can be grown once a year, called one-season rice, or twice a year, called two-season rice. Due to increasing income from migratory work and the degradation of irrigation systems, two-season rice cultivation that was widely practiced in the region in the past has been converted to one-season rice in many places, which was also observed by Shi, Heerink and Qu (2011). Across surveyed villages except one village that has rich farmland, we observed that older people and some women were the major labor force present on the farm, and the overall efforts in crop cultivation were low.…”

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Social and economic impacts of subsidy policies on rural development in the Poyang Lake Region, China: Insights from an agent-based model

Qing

Holland

Brown

2016

Agricultural Systems

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Does off-farm employment contribute to agriculture-based environmental pollution? New insights from a village-level analysis in Jiangxi Province, China

Cited by 62 publications

References 21 publications

Urbanization and the Change of Fertilizer Use Intensity for Agricultural Production in Henan Province

Urbanization and the Change of Fertilizer Use Intensity for Agricultural Production in Henan Province

Land tenure security and technical efficiency: new insights from a case study in Northwest China

Social and economic impacts of subsidy policies on rural development in the Poyang Lake Region, China: Insights from an agent-based model

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