Factors's Analysis for Increasing Abandoned Cultivated Land Areas at chugoku area Paying attention to differences among areas and relation among factors

Yoshida, Shinichi; Sato, Takumi; Datai, Hisashi

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“…Another study revealed that the higher the ratio of elderly people in the region, the more abandoned farmland [ 27 ]. Furthermore, Kamada and Nakagoshi showed that mountainous farmland was abandoned and transformed into forest plantations by using two rural cases [ 44 ], and other previous studies also revealed similar evidence that paddy lands located in less-favored areas tended to be abandoned (in a Japanese journal) [ 45 , 46 ]. This trend is similar to other developed East Asian countries such as China and Korea [ 34 ].…”

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“…Our dataset includes non-farmer landowners; therefore, it can be different from the statistical data presented by the government. Previous studies have shown the importance of paddy land location as a determinant of farmland abandonment [ 45 , 46 ]. Therefore, the characteristics of the regions where paddy land was located were included in Model 2.…”

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“…This trend is similar to other developed East Asian countries such as China and Korea [ 34 ]. Yoshida et al revealed that diverse regional drivers affect farmland abandonment [ 46 ]. However, these studies analyzed community-based agricultural data, but only limited studies addressed the drivers affecting land abandonment using individual data: Senda [ 47 ], Hattori and Yamaji [ 48 ], and Kurihara et al [ 49 ].…”

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Socio-economic drivers of irrigated paddy land abandonment and agro-ecosystem degradation: Evidence from Japanese agricultural census data

Mameno

Kubo

2022

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The abandonment of irrigated paddy land has increased in Japan, which can cause a decline in food security and biodiversity. Despite the importance of individual decisions, most studies have only examined regional or community-based determinants of paddy land abandonment. This study aimed to uncover the socio-economic determinants affecting individual landowners’ decisions to abandon paddy land, using Japanese agricultural census data (2005, 2010, and 2015) composed of over one million unique paddy landowners. Results showed that low agricultural benefits are a key driver of abandonment, similar to European countries. Conversely, there is a positive correlation between the population of full-time cultivators in a household and paddy land abandonment, which contradicts previous evidence. Although some mosaics of socio-ecological landscapes with high biodiversity formed through long-term human influence (i.e., the Satoyama landscapes) are less-favored agricultural areas, the paddy land in some of these landscapes tends not to be abandoned. These findings support effective policymaking that balances biodiversity conservation and the provision of agroecosystem services in semi-natural landscapes.

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Socio-economic drivers of irrigated paddy land abandonment and agro-ecosystem degradation: Evidence from Japanese agricultural census data

Mameno

Kubo

2022

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“…There have been many analyses of the causes of farmland abandonment but relatively little discussion of what kind of data should be used in these analyses. In Japan, where the farmland abandonment problem is becoming increasingly serious, many researchers have analyzed the determinants of farmland abandonment [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. They have used data from the census surveys conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) every five years as the basis [20].…”

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Estimation of Determinants of Farmland Abandonment and Its Data Problems

Kitano¹

2021

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Abandoned farmland is particularly problematic in developed countries where agriculture has a comparative disadvantage in terms of effective use of land resources invested over time. While many studies have estimated the causes of these problems, few have discussed in detail the impact of data characteristics and accuracy on the estimation results. In this study, issues related to the underlying data and the estimation of the determinants of farmland abandonment were examined. Most previous studies on farmland abandonment in Japan have used census data as the basis of their analyses. However, census data are recorded subjectively by farmers. To address this, surveys of abandoned farmland are being conducted by a third party, and the results are compiled into a geographic information system (GIS) database. Two types of datasets (subjective census data and objective GIS data) were examined for their estimation performance. Although the two sets of data are correlated, there are considerable differences between them. Subjective variables are compatible with subjective data, and objective variables are compatible with objective data (meaning that parameters are easily identified). Original data for analysis, such as policy variables, are compatible with objective data. In policy evaluation research, attention should be paid to objective data collection.

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Agricultural Landscape: Farmland Abandonment and Direct Payments

Tsuchiya

Hagihara

2016

Labor Forces and Landscape Management

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Factors's Analysis for Increasing Abandoned Cultivated Land Areas at chugoku area Paying attention to differences among areas and relation among factors

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Socio-economic drivers of irrigated paddy land abandonment and agro-ecosystem degradation: Evidence from Japanese agricultural census data

Socio-economic drivers of irrigated paddy land abandonment and agro-ecosystem degradation: Evidence from Japanese agricultural census data

Estimation of Determinants of Farmland Abandonment and Its Data Problems

Agricultural Landscape: Farmland Abandonment and Direct Payments

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