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Forestry
Xiaojin Liu, Xuan Guo, Lishan Li, Fangting Xie
Summary: This study examines the distinct effects of actual and perceived security on forestland investment by rural households. The findings indicate that actual security and possessing forestland certificates have a positive influence on investment, while the logging quota system has a negative impact on cash input. In terms of perceived security, evaluating and comprehending the existing tenure policy contribute positively to investment.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ning Geng, Zhifeng Gao, Chuchu Sun, Mengyao Wang
Summary: The study finds that factors such as off-farm income, part-time employment of family members, agricultural subsidies, and participation in agricultural cooperatives significantly influence farmers' participation in the farmland rental market, with renting-in households experiencing increased income and renting-out households experiencing decreased income.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Xiaoting Ling, Lijuan Yan, Deming Dai
Summary: This paper examines the impact of the green credit policy on firms' investment decisions and finds that the policy reduces investment level for pollutant-emitting firms but improves investment efficiency. This effect is more pronounced for state-owned firms, firms with high-quality corporate governance, and those with a higher analyst following.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Zhidong Wu, Wolin Zheng, Zechen Yang
Summary: This study examines the influence of residual control and claim rights in farmland right confirmation on farmers' farmland wastage behavior. Results show that residual control rights guarantee the farmers' exclusive right to use the farmland independently, and residual claim stimulates the farmers to pursue the goal of agricultural production surplus value. However, the farmland right confirmation is situational dependent on farmers' farmland wastage behavior.
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Environmental Studies
Zhang Yiwen, Shashi Kant
Summary: Understanding farmers' preferences for land use rights is crucial for successful land reforms. This study finds that farmers prioritize distribution equality over tenure security, particularly in farmland reallocations. Additionally, the influence of prosocial motivations on farmers' land property rights preferences varies across different land uses.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Peng Wang, Fanzhi Wang
Summary: Land transfer plays an important role in enhancing land resource allocation and achieving moderate scale operation in rural China. Participating in land transfer significantly increases the income level of farming households, but the impact varies depending on different land transfer acts. Various factors such as the age and physical condition of the household head, the number of agricultural and non-agricultural members, and the poverty status of the household have either positive or negative effects on household income.
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Environmental Studies
Adugna Eneyew Bekele, Dusan Drabik, Liesbeth Dries, Wim Heijman
Summary: This study examined the determinants of conflict among agro-pastoral households in areas affected by large-scale land investments in Ethiopia. Combining household and community surveys, descriptive statistics and a binary logit model were used for data analysis. The results showed that over a quarter of the studied communities experienced land conflicts in the past decade, which have increased since the establishment of large-scale land investments. The scarcity of pastureland and insecurity of land tenure were identified as the key drivers of land conflict.
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Environmental Studies
Nan Zhou, Wenli Cheng, Longyao Zhang
Summary: This study examines the impact of China's latest rural land titling program on households' long-term agricultural investment using official survey data from 2010 to 2015. The results show that the program has a positive effect on households' land-related investment, which is due to enhanced incentives resulting from improved land tenure security.
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Environmental Studies
Tao Li
Summary: With the decline in fish stocks and improvements in fishing control, it is important to pay more attention globally to the rights and restrictions over fisheries resources for small-scale fisheries. This paper specifically examines the legislative status of fisheries tenure rights in China and the judicial opinions on disputes related to overlapping users' rights to fisheries resources. The study reveals that the ambiguous tenure rights legislation in China does not provide a solid foundation for Chinese traditional fishers to influence fisheries-related decision-making processes, leading to incompatible judgments from Chinese courts.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Lingyun Huang, Zhuojun Lei
Summary: This study examined the impact of environmental regulation on corporate green investment in Chinese listed companies. The results indicated an inverted U-shape relationship between command-control environmental regulation and corporate green investment, while market-based and public-participation environmental regulation were positively related to corporate green investment. Non-state-owned enterprises made more green investment compared to state-owned enterprises and were more sensitive to environmental regulation. The marketization process positively moderated the relationship between environmental regulation and corporate green investment, with a more significant impact on non-state-owned enterprises.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2021)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Tzu-Wei Joy Tseng, Brian E. Robinson, Marc F. Bellemare, Ariel BenYishay, Allen Blackman, Timothy Boucher, Malcolm Childress, Margaret B. Holland, Timm Kroeger, Benjamin Linkow, Moustapha Diop, Lisa Naughton, Thomas Rudel, Jolyne Sanjak, Priya Shyamsundar, Peter Veit, William Sunderlin, Wei Zhang, Yuta J. Masuda
Summary: Land tenure security is increasingly recognized as a crucial element for advancing global sustainable development agendas. The majority of studies show that improved land tenure security has positive impacts on human well-being and environmental outcomes. More research is needed to understand the effects of non-technical interventions and rights devolution in informing future land policy efforts and accelerating sustainable development.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2021)
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Environmental Studies
Zarema Akhmadiyeva, Thomas Herzfeld
Summary: Kazakh farmers have fewer restrictions on land use compared to Uzbek farmers, and insufficient law enforcement allows Kazakh farmers to violate existing restrictions on land transferability. Uzbek farmers tend to underuse their rights, leading to a decrease in their willingness to increase agricultural production.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
A. Mirzabaev, M. Sacande, F. Motlagh, A. Shyrokaya, A. Martucci
Summary: The Great Green Wall program aims to restore degraded ecosystems in the Sahel region, with an economic evaluation showing a $1.2 return for every dollar invested in land restoration. It may take up to ten years for land restoration activities to break even from a social perspective, but the study highlights economically attractive and ecologically sustainable activities and locations, despite challenges like lower survival rates of planted trees and grasses, persistence of land degradation drivers, and growing violent conflicts.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2022)
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Environmental Studies
Min Li, Apurbo Sarkar, Yuge Wang, Ahmed Khairul Hasan, Quanxing Meng
Summary: This research evaluates the impact of ecological property rights on farmers' investment behavior in economic forests and constructs an evaluation framework. The results show that forest land use rights, economic products, and eco-product income rights positively influence farmers' forestry investment, while disposal rights have a negative impact. Additionally, only the right to profit from ecological products affects farmers' investment willingness. The study also finds that the integrity of property rights and farmers' forest land expropriation risk have an impact on investment decisions.
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Environmental Studies
Qiangqiang Zhang, Jiaying Tian, Jie Zheng, Nazir Muhammad Abdullahi, Xuexi Huo
Summary: This study analyzes the impact of land tenure security on the farm succession willingness of farmers and related paths using survey data from 1012 apple growers. The results show that land tenure security plays a significant role in promoting farm succession willingness and does so by improving farmers' farmland investment intentions. Therefore, reforms of the farmland property rights system and addressing climate change are important factors for achieving sustainable agricultural development.
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Economics
Fangping Rao, Abudureheman Abudikeranmu, Xiaoping Shi, Nico Heerink, Xianlei Ma
Summary: Reforms in irrigation management, specifically through participatory approaches, can influence farmers' adoption decisions of different irrigation technologies. While participatory irrigation management induces farmers to switch to government-promoted technology, it does not necessarily drive the adoption of localized self-governed technology. The promotion of participatory irrigation management can contribute to more sustainable water use in drought-prone areas, but the autonomy of localized irrigation systems needs more attention from local governments.
WATER RESOURCES AND ECONOMICS
(2021)
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Agronomy
Min Su, Nico Heerink, Peter Oosterveer, Tao Tan, Shuyi Feng
Summary: China's minimum grain procurement price program has negatively affected households' use of chemical fertilizer and pesticides, with pesticides being more responsive. While the higher prices stimulated agrochemical use, the expansion of area contributed to lower usage per unit of land. However, the large negative direct effect of the minimum procurement price on fertilizer and pesticide use overshadowed these counteracting indirect effects.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Margaret Atosina Akuriba, Rein Haagsma, Nico Heerink
Summary: This study examines the impact of governance perceptions on the cooperativeness of water users in small-scale irrigation schemes in northern Ghana, using household survey data and lab-in-the-field experimental results. The findings suggest that when users perceive their water user association (WUA) to be successful in conflict resolution, cooperativeness is lower. However, perceptions of accountability, transparency, and participation in governance have a positive effect on cooperativeness.
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Business
Chen Weng, Hui Wang, Nico Heerink, Marrit van den Berg
Summary: Based on data from the China Household Finance Survey, this article examines the relationship between credit constraints and entrepreneurial performance among rural households. The findings show that access to credit significantly and positively affects the profits of credit-constrained entrepreneurial households. However, the profits of households that are not credit-constrained do not depend on loan sizes. The study highlights the importance of developing new rural financial institutions, providing proper compensations for expropriated land, and promoting savings and investments in different types of assets for improving the performance of rural entrepreneurs.
EMERGING MARKETS FINANCE AND TRADE
(2022)
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Development Studies
Yan Wu, Janneke Pieters, Nico Heerink
Summary: This study provides new empirical evidence on gender wage differences among rural-urban migrants in China, finding that the gender wage gap is 16%-18% and does not differ based on residence location. Industry sorting is more important for migrants living at workplaces, while education and experience are more important for those living in urban communities. Differences in returns to characteristics are the main driver of the gender wage gap, especially for migrants living in urban communities.
REVIEW OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
(2021)
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Environmental Studies
Yu Hong, Nico Heerink, Wopke van der Werf
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Economics
Guangcheng Ren, Xueqin Zhu, Nico Heerink, Shuyi Feng
CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2020)
Article
Economics
Chen Qian, Fan Li, Gerrit Antonides, Nico Heerink, Xianlei Ma, Xiande Li
CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2020)
Article
Development Studies
Margaret Atosina Akuriba, Rein Haagsma, Nico Heerink, Saa Dittoh
WORLD DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES
(2020)
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Economics
Erdenechuluun Tumur, Wim J. M. Heijman, Nico Heerink, Bakey Agipar
CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2020)
Article
Economics
Yan Wu, Nico Heerink, Linhui Yu
CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2020)
Article
Economics
Xianlei Ma, Nico Heerink, Ekko van Ierland, Hairu Lang, Xiaoping Shi
CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2020)
Article
Economics
Rong Tan, Rongyu Wang, Nico Heerink
CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2020)
Article
Development Studies
Guangcheng Ren, Xueqin Zhu, Nico Heerink, Shuyi Feng, Ekko van Ierland
SOCIETY & NATURAL RESOURCES
(2019)
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Economics
Yuepeng Zhou, Xiaoping Shi, Nico Heerink, Xianlei Ma