Retired Farmers and New Land Users: How Relations to Land and People Influence Farmers' Land Transfer Decisions

Grubbström, Ann; Eriksson, Camilla

doi:10.1111/soru.12209

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“…Although the current research on "global land grabbing" [9,[35][36][37][38] has enriched the understanding of the roles of various actors and factors involved in land deals, no study has identified, so far, the factors that can influence the landowners' decision to refuse to sell the land even when a good price is offered. Thus, while other studies investigated the people's reasons for persistent landownership in the rural-urban fringe [39] or land attachment in general [40][41][42], this is the first attempt to reveal factors contributing to Romanian landowners' resistance to sell within the foreign land grabbing context.…”

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What Drives Landowners to Resist Selling Their Land? Insights from Ethical Capitalism and Landowners’ Perceptions

Petrescu-Mag

Kopaei

Petrescu

2021

Land

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Foreign land grabbing is acknowledged as a phenomenon that generates disempowerment and dispossession of local farmers, human rights violations. Previous studies have revealed the lack of ethical benchmarks in foreign large-scale land transactions that raise moral concerns. It is evident that when resources are scarce and people depend on them, the balance between values and interests transforms itself into a dilemma. Within this context, the aims of the paper were to bring to the fore critical reflection on a more ethical perspective of large-scale land acquisitions and to extend the scant information on what factors determine landowners not to sell their land to foreigners to limit land grabbing. This context justifies the need for a critical reflection on a more ethical perspective of large-scale land acquisitions. Therefore, two objectives were set. The first one is to document the role of ethics in large-scale land transactions. Based on the land grabbing literature, authors selected a set of eight land grabbing narratives, most often interrelated and overlapping, that pose ethical considerations. The second objective is to reveal how well a set of variables can predict the “Resistance to sell” the land to foreigners even when an attractive price is offered. As ethics is a social construct, the analysis captured the stakeholders’ perspective on land grabbing. Therefore, a questionnaire was applied to a sample of 332 Romanian landowners from twelve randomly selected counties to reveal their perceptions. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to observe how well a set of seven variables could predict landowners’ “Resistance to sell” their land to foreign buyers. The use of PLS-SEM was justified by the existence of single items and the need to examine many structural model relations. Results showed that the variables with the strongest contribution to the prediction of the dependent variable are the “Probability to join an association for farmers rights defense”, the “Importance of the land price offered by the potential foreign buyer”, and the “Perceived effect of agricultural land conversion to urban land”. Raising awareness on the importance of buyer attributes, increasing people’s perception of the negative effect of agricultural land conversion to urban land, or strengthening the state’s image as a necessary actor to limit land grabbing will increase landowners’ resistance to sell their land to foreigners. Finally, it can be inferred that, within this frame of discussion, ethics should be valued as a means to create economically viable and morally justifiable solutions for foreign large-scale land transactions.

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confidence: 99%

What Drives Landowners to Resist Selling Their Land? Insights from Ethical Capitalism and Landowners’ Perceptions

Petrescu-Mag

Kopaei

Petrescu

2021

Land

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“…Research has shown that where no successor can be designated, or the successor is not ready to take over the farm, farmers tend to continue to gradually wind down their business rather than selling up or leasing the land out to younger farmers outside the family a phenomenon termed the 'retirement effect' [22]. Long-term land leasing offers landowners, who may want to retire from farming, the opportunity to earn stable and long-term income from their land while ensuring the maintenance of the land, machinery and associated farm buildings without any fear of disruption in their income stream [22,72]. Long-term land leasing also ensures ownership of the land is retained should a successor require it in the future.…”

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“…Generally, farmers identify themselves strongly with their farmland and its sense of place, across both space and time, which can make it difficult for them to consider disengaging from active farming and engaging in longer-term land leasing [46]. There is always the desire to continue the family tradition in farming, with a sense of duty to be custodians of the land and a desire to keep the farm operational for future generations [46,72]. Farming on owned land rather than leasing the land has been described as providing the farmer with identity, occupation, control, and status in the community as well as social and cultural capital.…”

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The Case for Long-Term Land Leasing: A Review of the Empirical Literature

Adenuga

Jack

McCarry

2021

Land

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Land, as a factor of production, has a vital role within the agricultural sector compared with other sectors. However, in recent years, land mobility has become a significant issue around the world with increased concentration and competition for land ownership, limiting the overall competitiveness of the agri-food sector and constraining the potential opportunities for new entrant farmers to access land. While land leasing is increasingly being embraced as a common form of land tenure serving as an alternative to the purchase of land for agriculture, the length of lease has been shown to have a significant impact on land productivity and sustainability. In this study, we provide a comprehensive and systematic review exploring the benefits of longer-term land leasing with a particular focus on developed countries and some selected developing countries in the context of commercial farming with more formal arrangements. Specifically, we highlight the barriers to long-term land leasing and identify potential incentives that might be adopted to encourage long-term land leasing for both landowners and farmers who seek to rent land.

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“…In the case of information service related to cultivated items for returnees, when users select cultivated items and comparative items, comparative information on the number of farm households, area, facility area, road area, self-cultivation area, and lease area is provided for the item. However, there is a problem in which it is difficult to find the meaning of providing the information [7].…”

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Implementation of Returning Farmers Database Set Using Characteristics Information And Local Environment Information

et.al¹

2021

TURCOMAT

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In recent years, returning farms are attracting attention as a new way of life from urbanites who are about to retire. Returning farming means that the population living in the city leaves the city and continues a new form of life in rural areas. In other words, the fever of returning farming and returning villages is increasing, and the present is called the era of returning farming. As interest in returning farms increases, it is essential to provide accurate information for a successful return to farming life. Therefore, in this paper, a set of returned farmers database was constructed to provide information related to returning farmers with improved reliability and accuracy. To this end, personal characteristic information of returnees and local environmental information were linked. In addition, a set of databases for returning farmers was constructed using population movement statistics and agricultural management database. In this paper, data necessary for service development were selected and collected. In addition, a total of three types of service scenarios were created according to the type of use of returnees, and information on customized policy projects for returnees were constructed. Finally, an exploratory analysis of the collected data was conducted. In other words, refinement work was carried out to build the utilized database set, and the database set was constructed according to the purpose of use. As a result, the agricultural support information and the agricultural management body database were used based on the basic characteristic information of the returnees to provide selective customized information and establish a database set to improve reliability. Through this, it is possible to provide a customized service for anyone interested in returning to farming to easily access the farming information database set and obtain related information.

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Retired Farmers and New Land Users: How Relations to Land and People Influence Farmers' Land Transfer Decisions

Cited by 38 publications

References 36 publications

What Drives Landowners to Resist Selling Their Land? Insights from Ethical Capitalism and Landowners’ Perceptions

What Drives Landowners to Resist Selling Their Land? Insights from Ethical Capitalism and Landowners’ Perceptions

The Case for Long-Term Land Leasing: A Review of the Empirical Literature

Implementation of Returning Farmers Database Set Using Characteristics Information And Local Environment Information

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