Abstract
<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>
Highlights
Since the promulgation of A Decision on Accelerating the Forestry on June 2003, a new round of comprehensive reform of collective forest right system has been carried out nationwide(Wang et al, 2007; Xu, 2010)
The objective of this paper is to explore factors affecting rural households’ willingness to participate in forestland transfer, to provide first-hand information and propose policy implications
The questionnaire included four parts: the first part asked about age, education, engagement in farming etc.; the second part was to collect information about characteristics of household such as household size, migrant labors etc.; the third part included questions pertaining to forestland variables such as forestland area, number of parcels and other information about forestland transfer; the last part was to acquire information about householders’ awareness of forestland transfer policy, household ownership of forestland certificates, participation in decision making at the General Assembly and willingness to engage in forestland transfer
Summary
Since the promulgation of A Decision on Accelerating the Forestry on June 2003, a new round of comprehensive reform of collective forest right system has been carried out nationwide(Wang et al, 2007; Xu, 2010). Collective forest reform boosts forestland area owned by individual peasant household. It causes fragmentation of forestland management (Wen, 2008). In areas where collective forests have been allocated to individual household, the costs and complexity of managing forests are likely to increase. It is the clarified forestry right and decentralization of forest ownership that provide a prerequisite condition for forestland transfer to occur (Kong, 2008), and it has become evitable and in the future (Zeng & Nie, 2009). Forestland right transfer refers to use right transfer and contractual right transfer (Kong, 2008), and its essence lies in the transposition and transaction of property right (Zeng et al, 2009)
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