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来源类型	Article
规范类型	其他
DOI	10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.06.014
	Drivers of cropland abandonment in mountainous areas: A household decision model on farming scale in Southwest China.
	Yan J; Yang Z; Li Z; Li X; Xin L; Sun L
发表日期	2016
出处	Land Use Policy 57: 459-469
出版年	2016
语种	英语
摘要	Cropland abandonment has emerged as a prevalent phenomenon in the mountainous areas of China. While there is a general understanding that this new trend is driven by the rising opportunity cost of rural labor, rigorous theoretical and empirical analyses are largely absent. This paper first develops a theoretical model to investigate household decisions on farming scale when off-farm labor market is accessible and there is heterogeneity of farmland productivity and distribution. The model is capable of explaining the hidden reasons of cropland abandonment in sloping and agriculturally less-favored locations. The model also unveils the impacts of heterogeneity of household labor on fallow decisions and the efficiency loss due to an imperfect labor market. The model is empirically tested by applying the Probit and Logit estimators to a unique household and land-plot survey dataset which contains 5258 plots of 599 rural households in Chongqing, a provincial level municipality, in Southwest China. The survey shows that more than 30% of the sample plots have been abandoned, mainly since 1992. The econometric results are consistent with our theoretical expectations. This work would help policy-makers and stakeholders to identify areas with a high probability of land abandonment and farming practice which is less sustainable in the mountainous areas.
主题	Water (WAT)
关键词	Cropland abandonment Household decision model Opportunity cost of farming China
URL	http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13311/
来源智库	International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/130533
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yan J,Yang Z,Li Z,et al. Drivers of cropland abandonment in mountainous areas: A household decision model on farming scale in Southwest China.. 2016.

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