Abstract
Land recuperation is an important institutional guarantee for green agricultural development and an important measure to promote rural revitalization. Asset specificity is a crucial factor that affects farmers’ subsequent willingness to participate in land recuperation. Based on the perspective of farmer differentiation, this study uses survey data of 605 farmers in four counties of Gansu Province and employs the entropy method and the double-hurdle model to measure asset specificity and how it affects the subsequent willingness of different types of farmers to participate in land recuperation. The results show that: (1) farmers’ willingness to participate in land recuperation increases with the degree of their part-time occupations; (2) geographical location specificity has a significant negative effect on farmers’ intention and degree of subsequent land recuperations, and the impacts on non-farmers and II part-time farmers are significantly smaller than that on pure farmers and part-time farmers; (3) physical asset specificity has the most negligible influence on farmers’ subsequent willingness to participate; (4) human capital specificity has a significant negative impact on the intention and degree of land recuperation by farmers, and the effect is more significant for pure farmers than non-farmers; (5) factors such as land recuperation compensation satisfaction, land recuperation policy trust, social connection, and off-farm employment willingness promote the subsequent land recuperation willingness and degree of land recuperation of farmers, while the cultivated land area reduces the subsequent degree of participation in land recuperation.
Highlights
Published: 6 June 2021Implementing a land recuperation strategy of ‘storing grain on the ground’ is an effective way to consolidate food security, build an ecological civilization, and deepen agricultural reform [1]
Different types of farmers had slightly different willingness to carry out land recovery, and the order of willingness may be as follows: non-farmers > II part-time farmers > I part-time farmers > pure farmers
From the perspective of farmer differentiation, we focus on the effect of three dimensions of asset specificity on farmers’ intention and willingness to continue participating in land recuperation
Summary
Implementing a land recuperation strategy of ‘storing grain on the ground’ is an effective way to consolidate food security, build an ecological civilization, and deepen agricultural reform [1]. China’s per capita cultivated land area is less than half of the world’s per capita level, and the quality of cultivated land is far from what it used to be. China faces two significant challenges: decreasing quantity and quality of cultivated land. Cultivated land protection is grim in China [2]. Land recuperation is an effective way to protect farmlands and restore the ecological environment [3]. According to Document No 1 of the central government in 2019, the pilot system of crop rotation and land recuperation should be expanded to improve cultivated land recovery in China
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