The Impact of Collective Forestland Tenure Reform on Rural Household Income: The Background of Rural Households’ Divergence

Wei, Jian; Xiao, Hui; Liu, Can; Huang, Xiaotao; Zhang, Dahong

doi:10.3390/f13091340

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“…In other scholars' studies, it was found that, in terms of geographical location conditions, the more developed areas in east-central China, areas with good forestry resource endowment, and areas with significant reform are relatively more efficient in developing forestry and more effective in largescale operation [23], and academic research hotspots are also focused on relevant regions with more diversified business models and relatively obvious farmers' willingness to engage in forest management, as concluded by Han [73], Zheng [24], and Hu [74] in related studies; however, in this study, it is found that the factors of scale operation and diversification have no effect on the willingness of minority farmers to engage in forest management.…”

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“…The transfer of collective forest rights has been steadily promoted, and the number of new business entities reached 294,300, operating more than 280 million mu of forest land. In recent years, although the reform of collective forest rights system has achieved good results, the productivity of collective forest land has not yet been fully released, the comprehensive benefits and operational efficiency of collective forestry [22] are still not high, the economic income from forestry for forest landowners is relatively small [23].…”

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Are Minority Forest Farmers Willing to Participate in Forest Man-Agement? Evidence from the Minority Regions of Southwest China

Ya¹,

Chang²,

Dou³

et al. 2023

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Forest resources are an important material basis for ecological protection and economic devel-opment, and are responsible for the dual mission of guaranteeing national ecological safety and grain safety. Forest land is an important carrier of forest resources, and forest landowner is a direct component of forest land management. Forest landowners’ willingness to engage in forest man-agement affects whether the important value function of forest resources can be implemented. Are there differences in the willingness and behavior of forest management between ethnic minority foresters and ordinary foresters? How to stimulate the forest management willingness and behavior of forest farmers in ethnic minority areas?These questions will be about the realization of the value of forest resources. Through the analysis of 185 questionnaires in Yunnan Province, this paper clarifies the current situation of forest management of forest farmers in minority areas. Then, using the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework, we select three indicators including the socio-economic at-tributes of individual farmers, the cognition and experience of forest landowners, and policy guidance. And we use the binary logistic regression model to analyze the factors affecting the willingness of forester to participate in forest management. Through the above analysis, we find that: (1) Forest landowners' willingness to engage in forest management in minority regions is relatively high, at 71.98%. (2) Individual farmers’ socioeconomic attributes have the most significant degree of influence on willingness to engage in forest management, while forest landowners' cognitive and related experiences, policy guidance and other related variables influence willingness to engage in forest management at the macro level. (3) Literacy has a significant positive contribution to man-agement intentions, while forest land area, living standard, whether they are compensated by public welfare forest, and whether they participate in the project of returning farmland to forest and grass have a significant negative effect on management intentions. (4) There are significant differences between forest landowners' willingness to engage in forest management and the influencing factors between minority regions and non-minority regions. Finally, we suggest to improve the willingness to engage in forest management and forestry industry development in minority regions through innovative management methods, concentrated and continuous large-scale management, en-couraging capital investment and driving forest landowners to "nearby employment", optimizing the logging quota system and raising the compensation standard for public welfare forests. This study has important practical significance for promoting the realization of forest ecological products value, consolidating the achievement of poverty alleviation in forest areas and realizing rural re-vitalization in China.

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Are Minority Forest Farmers Willing to Participate in Forest Man-Agement? Evidence from the Minority Regions of Southwest China

Ya¹,

Chang²,

Dou³

et al. 2023

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“…(3) Control variables. Considering that farmers' forestry income is also influenced by other factors besides the forestry industry, and addressing the endogeneity problem caused by omitted variables, we selected a series of control variables based on relevant studies and the principles of availability, comparability, and quantifiability (Abdulai et al, 2016;Abhilash, 2018;Li et al, 2021a;Lin & Chen, 2020;Lu et al, 2018;Lu et al, 2020;Wei et al, 2022;Xiong et al, 2018;. Control variables refer to potential factors or conditions other than experimental variables in an experiment that affect the changes and results of the experiment.…”

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“…②Rural human capital level (X3). Rural human capital, as an important input factor in forestry production and operation, has a significant promoting effect on the growth of farmers' forestry income (Wei et al, 2022). The per capita education years of rural residents are used to measure the level of rural human capital.…”

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The Impact of Forestry Industry Integration on the Forest Farmers' Income in China: A Theoretical and Empirical Study

Chen,

Jin,

Wang

et al. 2024

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Transforming the forestry development model and promoting the integrated development of the forestry industry has become an important way for forestry to break through development bottlenecks and achieve efficiency enhancement, prosperity of forest areas, and income increase for forest farmers. In this study, we have theoretically elaborated on the mechanism by which the integrated development of the forestry industry affects the income level of forest farmers. In terms of empirical research, we use the inter provincial panel data from 2005 to 2019 to empirically test the individual heterogeneity, regional heterogeneity, and spatial spillover effects of forestry industry integration on forest farmer income with the help of fixed effect model, quantile regression model and spatial panel model. Results showed that, firstly, the level of integration in the forestry industry is on the rise, with most provinces in the middle or high integration stage. Among them, the Northeast region has the highest level of integration. Secondly, there is a positive spatial correlation in the income of Chinese forest farmers, and the spatial correlation is gradually increasing. The income of forest farmers in coastal provinces is relatively high, as indicated by the presence of HH clusters. Thirdly, the integration of the forestry industry has significantly improved the income level of forest farmers, and there are group heterogeneity and regional differences. The heterogeneity of income is reflected in the increasing income effect of forestry industry integration, which continuously strengthens with the improvement of the income level of forest farmers. Regional heterogeneity is mainly manifested in the Northeastern, Eastern, and Central regions. The integration of forestry industries can significantly promote the growth of forest farmers’ income, while in the Western regions, the income increase effect of forestry industry integration has an inhibitory effect, but is not significant. Finally, the integration of the forestry industry has significant spatial spillover effect and the indirect effect is greater than the direct effect. However, the spillover effect coefficient is 0.007, which is still at a relatively low level, and the diffusion effect generated by factor flow still needs to be strengthened. Efforts to boost integrated forestry industry development will broaden the income channels of forest farmers by leveraging high productivity of the agglomeration effects, diffusion effect and demonstration effect, strengthening regional communication and cooperation, and promoting integrated forestry industry development with adjacent regions. This study helps to correctly grasp the relationship between forestry industry integration and farmers’ income, and provides decision-making reference for local governments to formulate policies for increasing farmers’ income in the development of forestry industry integration based on actual situations.

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“…Liu et al (2017b) demonstrated through survey data that the CFTR significantly increased both forestry income and total income for households [21]. However, Wei Jian et al (2022) found in their study that the effect of the CFTR on increasing income varied significantly among households of different income levels, with a greater increase in income for wealthier households than for poorer ones [22]. Zang et al (2015) showed that the CFTR gradually increased the income gap between households [23].…”

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The Impact of Collective Forest Tenure Reform on Timber Production in China: An Empirical Analysis Based on Provincial Panel Data

Yang,

Wang,

Hou

et al. 2024

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China initiated a new collective forest tenure reform (CFTR) in 2003, which transferred the use rights of collective forest land and the ownership of collective trees to farmers. To assess the impact of the CFTR on timber production and to understand its underlying mechanisms, this study first conducted a theoretical analysis on how CFTR affects the production of commercial and non-commercial timber, leading to the provided hypotheses. Then, based on a panel dataset for 28 provinces from 1998 to 2018, a Time-varying Difference-in-Differences model was employed for empirical analysis. The results show that the CFTR led to an increase of 24.18% in commercial timber production and 34.37% in non-commercial timber production. The CFTR boosted the production of both types of timber initially, but the incremental effects were weakened over time. The incremental effects of the CFTR on commercial timber production was larger in regions with more collective forests. After the CFTR, the proportion of economic forest land in total forest land increased, contributing to a short-term rise in commercial timber production. In regions with higher timber market prices, reforms have a greater effect on increasing timber production, implying that farmers are more sensitive in their response to market values.

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The Impact of Collective Forestland Tenure Reform on Rural Household Income: The Background of Rural Households’ Divergence

Cited by 12 publications

References 28 publications

Are Minority Forest Farmers Willing to Participate in Forest Man-Agement? Evidence from the Minority Regions of Southwest China

Are Minority Forest Farmers Willing to Participate in Forest Man-Agement? Evidence from the Minority Regions of Southwest China

The Impact of Forestry Industry Integration on the Forest Farmers' Income in China: A Theoretical and Empirical Study

The Impact of Collective Forest Tenure Reform on Timber Production in China: An Empirical Analysis Based on Provincial Panel Data

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