The impact of migration on agricultural restructuring: Evidence from Jiangxi Province in China

Qian, Weixing; Wang, Dazhe; Zheng, Li

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.07.024

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“…As shown in Table 2, a positive relationship between rural-urban migration experience and technical efficiency is observed in Meitan County. As analyzed in several previous studies, rural-urban migrants would provide financial and human capital to promote agricultural production [43][44][45]. We also found that the distance from home to village committee is negatively associated with technical efficiency.…”

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Aging of Agricultural Labor Force and Technical Efficiency in Tea Production: Evidence from Meitan County, China

Liu

Zhang

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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While the aging of agricultural labor force and its impact on agricultural production have been attracting extensive attention, little is known about the relationship between aging of agricultural labor force and technical efficiency in tea production. Using the stochastic frontier analysis and cross-sectional survey data covering 241 tea-producing farmers in Meitan County in China, this study attempts to investigate the impact of aging of tea-producing farmers on technical efficiency in tea production in the mountainous areas of southwestern China. The results show that the average technical efficiency in tea production is 0.581, implying a great room for improving technical efficiency in tea production in Meitan County. While there might exist an inverted U-shaped relationship between farmers’ age and technical efficiency, the aging of tea-producing farmers would exert negative impact on technical efficiency in tea production. In addition, rural–urban migration experience, number of household laborers, distance from home to village committee, and township location are also significantly related with technical efficiency. The findings in this study are proved to be robust. Hence, several policy implications for meeting the challenges from aging of agricultural labor force and improving technical efficiency in tea production in the mountainous areas of southwestern China are also discussed.

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Aging of Agricultural Labor Force and Technical Efficiency in Tea Production: Evidence from Meitan County, China

Liu

Zhang

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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“…Studies on the impact of rural population decline on rural landscapes have shown that farmland abandonment has affected rural biodiversity and triggered the succession of ecological landscapes [10]. Labor outmigration has weakened agricultural cultivation and increased the areas and the possibility of farmland abandonment by farmers [3,[11][12][13]. The fragmentation of land reduces the marginal productivity of agricultural labor and further promotes the migration of rural labor to the nonagricultural sector [14].…”

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Has Rural Migration Weakened Agricultural Cultivation? Evidence from the Mountains of Southwest China

Zhang

Deng

et al. 2020

Agriculture

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Linkages between rural migration and agricultural restructuring have become a key aspect of rapid urbanization in developing countries and a research focus for optimizing rural–urban development and rural reconstruction. Using continuous statistical data from the mountains of Southwest China, we examined the structure, changes and regional differences in agricultural cultivation under urbanization, analyzed the reasons for the restructuring of agricultural cultivation, and revealed the adaptation linkages between the rural–urban transition and agricultural restructuring. The results showed that land-use changes and rural migration caused by urbanization significantly affected the cultivation structure and its change trends: the proportion of food crops decreased, while the proportion of vegetables and orchards increased. However, regional differences in the agricultural cultivation structure were significant in the various township zones. Rural migration weakened agricultural cultivation in the lake basin and nationality townships but enhanced agricultural cultivation in the river valley townships. On the basis of the adaptation linkages of urbanization, rural migration, agricultural intensification, cultivation structure and economic development, chain-type changes and adaptation processes between rural migration and agricultural restructuring were demonstrated. These findings indicate that favorable locations and appropriate policies can promote the integration and restructuring of smallholder agriculture for commercialization and intensification and vice versa.

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“…However, other studies have found that outmigrants who return to their agricultural communities of origin may bring back the skills and technologies to modernize agricultural operations. This may still represent a loss of ecological knowledge, and may not actually contribute to the long-term sustainability of the agricultural sectors, but it challenges the notion that outmigration automatically causes agriculture to wither and die (Qian, Wang & Zheng, 2016;Qin & Liao, 2016). Whatever the case, because research finds that young in-migrants, including return migrants, bring valuable "new viewpoints, experiences, and knowledge" to rural communities (MacMichael, 2015:38), policies that try to stem migration in any direction may work to stifle social change and diversity.…”

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2018

Focaal

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The economic crash in Iceland created a sense of social and political collapse that extended far beyond the economic realm. Calls for a “New Iceland” were invoked, where the Icelandic political arena would be “cleaned” and reimagined in drastic ways. In this article, I explore how ideas circulating in the wider European region about how Icelanders dealt exceptionally well with the crisis not only failed to reflect the lived effects of the collapse but also echoed long-standing nationalist ideals of Icelanders’ imagined reality of themselves. I show how nation branding in Iceland after 2010 added to the conception that Iceland dealt with the crisis in an exceptional way, and I critically ask why Iceland received such a positive depiction in the international media.

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The impact of migration on agricultural restructuring: Evidence from Jiangxi Province in China

Cited by 79 publications

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Aging of Agricultural Labor Force and Technical Efficiency in Tea Production: Evidence from Meitan County, China

Aging of Agricultural Labor Force and Technical Efficiency in Tea Production: Evidence from Meitan County, China

Has Rural Migration Weakened Agricultural Cultivation? Evidence from the Mountains of Southwest China

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