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Tenure, land rights, and farmer investment incentives in China

Year: 1998

Type: article

Abstract: The goal of this paper is to understand the nature of the property rights associated with China's land tenure systems and to study the impact of these property rights on agricultural production efficiency. The results show that land tenure and associated property rights in rural China affect the production behavior of farmers. The most robust finding is that the right to use land for long periods of time encourages the use of land‐saving investments. While the results show that land tenure affects agricultural production decisions, the difference between collective and private plots, however, is small compared to the private plot‐ communal productivity gap that existed in the pre‐reform period.

Source: Agricultural Economics

DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.1998.tb00515.x

Authors: Guo Li, Scott Rozelle, Loren Brandt

Institutions: Stanford University, University of California, Davis, University of Toronto, Muscular Dystrophy Canada

Language: English

Topic: Land Rights and Reforms

Subfield: Soil Science

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Zero hunger

Open Access status: green

Funders: Ford Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation