Sustainable natural resource use in rural China: Recent trends and policies

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

doi:10.1016/j.chieco.2010.08.005

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“…With surface water resources largely diminished, irrigation in North China relies heavily on groundwater, which has led to the rapid decline in water tables in several areas. The decrease in groundwater level is especially alarming near Beijing in Hebei Province, which covers most of the Hai River Basin, one of nine major river basins in China [3]. Over-pumping in this region has resulted in serious environmental consequences such as land subsidence, intrusion of saline water into freshwater aquifers and deterioration of ecosystems [4][5][6].…”

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Impacts of Off-Farm Employment on Irrigation Water Efficiency in North China

Yin

Huang

Yang

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Water

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This paper examines the impacts of off-farm employment on irrigation water efficiency (IWE) with a set of household level data collected in Hebei Province in North China. A major finding is that households with higher shares of laborers working off-farm locally seem to achieve higher IWEs. The effect of local off-farm employment is greater among those households that have made more efforts to use furrow irrigation. We also find that households with higher shares of elderly laborers and those with larger land holding are associated with lower IWEs. Households with better soil quality and those that pump from deeper wells are associated with higher IWEs.

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Impacts of Off-Farm Employment on Irrigation Water Efficiency in North China

Yin

Huang

Yang

et al. 2016

Water

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“…The data were collected among 312 households in 21 villages in Minle County, Gansu Province, northwest China. Given the prevailing problems with the sustainable use of land and water resources in China's intensive agricultural system (e.g., Qu et al, 2011), and given China's national policy goal of being self-sufficient in grain production, the insights obtained from this study may provide an important input into the development of science-based policies for sustainable agricultural development and rural poverty reduction in China.…”

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

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Heerink

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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“…Although urbanization was concentrated in coastal regions in the early period of the economic reforms, rapid urban land expansion began to take place in the vast inland region due to the "Go West" Policy, a policy shift propagated by the central government that aimed at directing industrial and economic development from the coastal areas to the interior regions since the mid-1990s [4]. The launch of the Grain for Green Program in 1999 has also largely contributed to the accelerated rate of decline of cultivated area in the beginning of the 21 century [5]. Both agricultural land conversion and agricultural land use intensity affect food production [6,7].…”

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

Jiang

2016

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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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Sustainable natural resource use in rural China: Recent trends and policies

Cited by 79 publications

References 40 publications

Impacts of Off-Farm Employment on Irrigation Water Efficiency in North China

Impacts of Off-Farm Employment on Irrigation Water Efficiency in North China

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

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

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