Abstract
With the rapid progress of urbanization, the loss of cultivated land has attracted great attention worldwide, and economic compensation is one of the incentives commonly used by the governments to enhance farmers’ enthusiasm in protecting cultivated land. In recent years, although various economic compensation modes have been implemented by the Chinese government, such modes are still experimental and exploratory. Thus, designing and implementing a national economic compensation mode is urgent to effectively protect the quantity and quality of cultivated land. This study focuses on the mode of cultivated land protection fund (CLPF) in Chengdu, which is the earliest mode of the implementation of economic compensation in China in 2008. First, we analyzed the farmers’ satisfaction with the CLPF through a face-to-face interview with 296 farmers in Chengdu. Then, we used the path analysis method to identify the influencing factors of farmers’ satisfaction from the characteristics of farmers and the policy. Results show that the CLPF was generally supported by farmers. Nevertheless, room for improvement still exists. Particularly, farmers’ satisfaction was low in the design of the government’s supervision management of the CLPF. Farmers’ satisfaction with compensation standard, funding use requirement, and the government’s supervision management were remarkably affected by factors, including farmers’ educational level, cultivated land area, total annual agricultural income, farmers’ knowledge of the CLPF, farmers’ recognition of the value of the CLPF, and farmers’ perception of the changes in household economics. Particularly, the direct influence of farmers’ perception of the changes in household economics was the most important. Finally, we proposed the recommendations for constructing a national economic compensation mode for cultivated land protection. Our results have certain guiding significance for promoting the sustainable development of cultivated land protection policies by means of economic incentives in China and other countries.
Highlights
The urbanization rate will reach 60% by 2030 and 67.2% by 2050 [1]
Rapid urbanization has led to a reduction in the area of cultivated land, and it will result in a 1.8–2.4% loss of farmland worldwide, and 80% of farmland losses will occur in developing countries in Asia and Africa by 2030 [2]
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Summary
The urbanization rate will reach 60% by 2030 and 67.2% by 2050 [1]. Rapid urbanization has led to a reduction in the area of cultivated land, and it will result in a 1.8–2.4% loss of farmland worldwide, and 80% of farmland losses will occur in developing countries in Asia and Africa by 2030 [2]. In the rapid urbanization in South Korea from 1986 to 1996, the expansion of residential land caused a large amount of farmland loss [3]. In India, urbanization has rapidly transformed agricultural lands into non-agricultural ones [4]. The reduction of cultivated land caused by urbanization has two direct reasons. Urban boundary expansion encroaches on the farmland around the city. The transfer of rural labor to the city results in the abandonment of farmland
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