Land property rights and rural enterprise growth: Evidence from land titling reform in China

D Bu, Y Liao - Journal of Development Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
We exploit a large-scale land titling reform in China that clearly entitles rural households to
land rights by issuing uniform land use certificates and study how this impacted …

The impact of China's new agricultural subsidy policy on grain crop acreage

P Fan, AK Mishra, S Feng, M Su, S Hirsch - Food Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
As China is the world's largest producer, importer, and consumer of agricultural products, the
new agricultural subsidy policy has significant implications for the global agricultural market …

Aging population, farm succession, and farmland usage: Evidence from rural China

B Zou, AK Mishra, B Luo - Land Use Policy, 2018 - Elsevier
The aging farming population has a significant influence on production agriculture,
succession planning, successors, and farmland usage. Given recent trends in urban …

Rural land rights reform and agro-environmental sustainability: Empirical evidence from China

Y Xu, X Huang, HXH Bao, X Ju, T Zhong, Z Chen… - Land use policy, 2018 - Elsevier
The landscape of China's rural land market has been changed by several significant land
right reforms since the 1970s. It is always of great interest to both the government and the …

Social capital, land tenure and the adoption of green control techniques by family farms: Evidence from Shandong and Henan Provinces of China

Y Gao, B Liu, L Yu, H Yang, S Yin - Land Use Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
In China, land tenure security refers to the stability of land management rights in the context
of the Three Rights Separation Policy, according to which rural land ownership rights, land …

Collective action for the market-based reform of land element in China: The role of trust

L Zhou, WT de Vries - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
The market entry of collectively-owned operating construction land (COCL) is an important
policy of the Chinese government to promote the flow of rural land elements in the market …

How did land titling affect China's rural land rental market? Size, composition and efficiency

W Cheng, Y Xu, N Zhou, Z He, L Zhang - Land Use Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Based on 2010–2015 official surveys conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture, we apply the
difference-in-differences method to study how the latest land titling reform in China affected …

Determinants of farmland abandonment on the urban–rural fringe

T Zhou, E Koomen, X Ke - Environmental Management, 2020 - Springer
China's urban explosion has resulted in a substantial loss of agricultural production on the
fringes of many cities. Farmland is not only converted into urban uses but also taken out of …

Land transfer in rural China: Incentives, influencing factors and income effects

K Peng, C Yang, Y Chen - Applied Economics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Land transfer incentives and their effect on farmers' income in developing countries have
been widely examined in the literate, but little is known about the driving mechanism of rural …

How does nonfarm employment stability influence farmers' farmland transfer decisions? Implications for China's land use policy

B Su, Y Li, L Li, Y Wang - Land Use Policy, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper examines the impact of nonfarm employment stability on migrant workers'
farmland transfer decisions. Using data on 1148 migrant workers extracted from the Chinese …