Forest Tenure Reform in China: A Choice Experiment on Farmers' Property Rights Preferences

2011 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Qin ◽  
F. Carlsson ◽  
J. Xu
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Choice Experiment ◽  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Forest Tenure

Property rights, tenure security and forest investment incentives: evidence from China's Collective Forest Tenure Reform

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuanyuan Yi ◽  
Gunnar Köhlin ◽  
Jintao Xu
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Forest Sector ◽  
Investment Incentives ◽  
Large Database ◽  
Tenure Security ◽  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Forest Tenure ◽  
Collective Forest Tenure Reform

AbstractThis paper assesses how tenure reform in China's collective forest sector affects Chinese farmer households’ perception of tenure security and propensity to invest in their forestland. A large database consisting of information from 3,180 households in eight provinces from south to north is used to explore factors correlated with more strongly perceived tenure security and determinants of forest-related investment. The study adds to the limited research testing whether there is endogenous causality between investment and tenure security in forestland, and finds that investment was not undertaken to enhance tenure security. In addition, the data allow for differentiation between perceived tenure security and contracted use and transferability rights. Overall, stronger contracted rights were found to affect investment. China's forest tenure reform – where individual households can manage forestland, empowered by legal certification and stronger contract rights – has thus enhanced tenure security and encouraged forest investment.

scholarly journals Property Rights, Village Political System, and Forestry Investment: Evidence from China’s Collective Forest Tenure Reform

Forests ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Ren ◽  
Jari Kuuluvainen ◽  
Liu Yang ◽  
Shunbo Yao ◽  
Caixia Xue ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Political System ◽  
Investment Incentives ◽  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Forest Region ◽  
Forestry Investments ◽  
Forest Tenure ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Collective Forest Tenure Reform

To investigate the effect of improved property rights and, in particular, village democracy under China’s Collective Forest Tenure Reform (Tenure Reform) on household forestry investments, we estimate both tobit models and the more general Cragg models for farmers’ labor and monetary inputs into forestry, using survey data of 652 households from the southern collective forest region of China. The results reveal that the improved forestland use and disposition rights had a significant effect on household investments in forestry, while the beneficiary right did not. In addition, the results suggest that village democracy had a positive effect on households’ forestry investments. More importantly, we find that village democracy was able to significantly strengthen the investment incentive effect of the improved property rights under the Tenure Reform. These effects may be explained by the fact that village democracy improved households’ perception, cognition, and, subsequently, confidence toward, in particular, the use and disposition rights of the forests entitled to them. Therefore, the findings suggest that to increase the investment incentives of the Tenure Reform further, governments could strengthen the bundle of households’ use and disposition rights, as well as their related policies. Also, our findings indicate that governments could significantly improve the performance of public policies by effectively employing democratic procedures in the process of policy implementation.

scholarly journals Impact of devolved forest tenure reform on formal credit access for households: Evidence from Fujian, China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiayun Dong ◽  
Wenyuan Liang ◽  
Yimin Fu ◽  
Weiping Liu ◽  
Shunsuke Managi
Keyword(s):  
Credit Access ◽  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Forest Tenure

scholarly journals Forest tenure reform implementation in Uganda: Current challenges and future opportunities

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nsita S.A. ◽  
Nakangu B. ◽  
Banana A.Y. ◽  
Mshale B. ◽  
Mwangi E. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Reform Implementation ◽  
Forest Tenure

scholarly journals Analysis on the Willingness of Peasant Households for Forestland Use Right Transfer in the Background of Collective Forest Tenure Reform: A Case Study in Guangyuan City in Sichuan Province

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Minfeng Tang ◽  
Fang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implications ◽  
Basic Unit ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Willingness To Participate ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Forest Tenure ◽  
Individual Household ◽  
Collective Forest Tenure Reform

<p>The objective of this study is to get a better understanding and accurate information regarding factors affecting the forestland transfer, providing first-hand information, and proposing policy implications. The forestland use transfer is the main content in the collective forest tenure reform in China at present. Individual household, as a basic unit of forest production, should be the major participant in the forestland transfer. Using survey data of 329 rural household in 18 villages of three counties, this paper analyzes influencing factors on rural householders’ willingness to partake in forestland use right transfer by employing Binary Logit Regression. Nineteen variables, which were identified as characteristics of householders and households, natural endowment of forestland resources and householders’s awareness of forestland policy. Results indicate that householders’ awareness of pertinent policies and population of the household demonstrate significantly positive effects, while forestland area owned by individual household shows a markedly negative effect on peasants’ willingness to participate in forestland transfer. Some policy implications are discussed in this paper.</p>

scholarly journals Collaborative Forest Management in Nepal: Tenure, Governance and Contestations

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sindhu P. Dhungana ◽  
Poshendra Satyal ◽  
Nagendra P. Yadav ◽  
Bhola Bhattarai
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Benefit Sharing ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Forest Tenure ◽  
History Of ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Financial Arrangements

 Collaborative forest management (CFM) is a ‘community-based’ forest tenure regime that works in partnership between the central government, local government and local forest user groups in Nepal’s Terai, particularly in the management of large, contiguous forests. It has been in practice since the early 2000s in the form of ‘pilot initiatives’ and is gradually receiving greater legal attention. Through our own experiences, available literature and review of policies, we document the evolutionary history of Terai forest and CFM’s current issues. We found that the management aspects of Terai forests have been weak throughout its history. We also found a number of issues and challenges in the implementation of CFM. Some of the prominent issues include ambiguity in tenure rights and security, lack of appropriate and uncontested policy provisions for cost and benefit sharing among collaborators, limited decision-making space for forest-managing communities and local governments, and limited capacity of collaborators for the productive management of forests. We suggest tenure reform in terms of legal, institutional, technical and financial arrangements, so as to make CFM an effective forest management model in the Terai.

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