Land Circulation Research Articles

Will Rural Collective-Owned Commercial Construction Land Marketization Impact Local Governments’ Interest Distribution? Evidence from Mainland China

To promote the harmonious human-land relationships and increased urban-rural interaction, rural collective-owned commercial construction land (RCOCCL) marketization reform in some pilot areas was a new attempt by the Chinese Central Government in 2015. In this areas, a novel interest distribution system was established with the land right adjustment and the corresponding local governments were likely to benefit through taxation and land appreciation adjustment fund. This study proposed the hypothesis that the RCOCCL marketization reform would improve local government revenue, and explored the actual effect based on panel census data of county-level administrative units from 2010 to 2018. We applied the difference-in-difference (DID) method to analyze the causal effect of this reform on fiscal revenue with 29 pilot areas selected as the treatment group and 1602 county-level units as the control group. The empirical results of the optimized DID robustness test models and the Heckman two-step method showed that the RCOCCL marketization reform does not have a significant impact because of lower land circulation efficiency, the transfer of land transaction costs, and the policy implementation deviations. Thus, weakening the administrative intervention of local governments in the RCOCCL marketization is essential to the land market development in China.

Performance Evaluation and Sensitivity Analysis of Rural Land Circulation Mode

To evaluate the performance of rural land circulation mode through the analytic network hierarchy process, based on the results of the performance evaluation with analytic network process, we implemented efficiency analysis on five types of rural land circulation mode by two improved efficiency analytic procedures. Finally, we implemented sensitivity analysis for each criterion layer of the evaluation index system with the performance evaluation data, interpreted five types of rural land circulation mode from three perspectives including benefits, costs, and risks with sensitivity analysis results, and drew related conclusions including higher revenue which will lead to smaller difficulty of the rural land circulation. Cost variables were negative variables of the selected rural land circulation mode, and higher risk would lead to the greater difficulty of rural land circulation and related conclusions.

Ecological Aspect of Legal Provision of Modern Land Reform as a Factor of Sustainable Development

The article is devoted to the analysis of the legal support of the Ukrainian land reform from the point of view of its ecological component and realization of the purposes of sustainable development. The ecological aspect of land reform in our state is represented by separate legislative steps of land rehabilitation. In particular, the organizational and legal bases of land melioration have been improved, including the maintenance of field protective forest belts, the legal bases of land division by purpose and territorial planning, etc. The Law on the Circulation of Agricultural Land is aimed at overcoming the moratorium on the alienation of agricultural land. One of its goals is to create conditions for the rational use of land and soil. And this is a prerequisite for their preservation, restoration and improvement, but requires further legal regulation. The paper uses positive foreign experience in land reforms, as well as international and foreign experience in the legal regulation of rational use and protection of land and soil. It is concluded that at the present stage of land reform, the state is trying to restore the efficient use of Ukrainian lands with minimal expenditure of state resources by creating legal, organizational and economic prerequisites, when landowners, land users and local communities, by virtue of their environmental and social legal awareness, legal culture and responsibilities, will be able to restore Ukraine's land potential and achieve sustainable development goals.

Synergies of river and land circulation in towns with small rivers: The case of Poitiers (France)

AbstractThe development of waterfront archeology since the 1970s has motivated the study of the synergies between cities and rivers. The increasing number of excavations in city waterfronts with its inception in Northern Europe, emphasize the complexity and value of riparian areas. These city‐river synergies shed light on such natural and cultural complexity, which requires a multidisciplinary approach and highlights the dynamics of a changing, hybrid and multifunctional riverine area. Although this interdisciplinary field of research has recently been growing, archeological research in France is focused primarily on large hydro systems with respect to smaller ones. This paper focuses on two secondary watercourses—the Clain and the Boivre—surrounding the city of Poitiers in Western France. Studying river and land circulation of the city in a longue durée perspective highlights the importance of small rivers in waterway traffic, as well as their archeological potential. These findings call for a reconsideration of the rich heritage of small rivers in future urban development projects, taking into account the sensitivity of small hydro systems to environmental changes.This article is categorized under: Human Water > Human Water

THE EXPEDIENCY OF STARTING THE SALE OF LAND IN UKRAINE IN AN ECONOMIC DOWNTURN

Purpose. The aim of the article is the characteristics of modern theoretical and practical aspects of the functioning of the agricultural land market in Ukraine in the second half of 2021. Methodology of research. The following methods were used in the study: statistical analysis and comparison – in studying the problematic aspects of the Law of Ukraine “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on the Conditions of Circulation of Agricultural Land”, the dynamics of gross domestic product and public and state-guaranteed debt as the main factors the dynamics of the potential value of land; logical assessment – in substantiating the proposals to restore the moratorium on the sale of agricultural land and repeal the Law of Ukraine “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on the Conditions of Circulation of Agricultural Land”; generalization – in the process of formulating conclusions based on the results of the analysis. Findings. It is established that during the second half of 2019 – the first half of 2021 there was a continuous decline in gross domestic product of Ukraine and a sharp increase in public debt, which negatively affects the potential value of Ukrainian agricultural land. The necessity of prolonging the moratorium on land sales is substantiated. The principles for the development of a new Law of Ukraine “On the market of agricultural land”, which would take into account the interests of all land users. Originality. Recommendations on the need to renew the moratorium on land sales, repeal the current Law of Ukraine “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on the Conditions of Circulation of Agricultural Land” and develop a new, state- and national-oriented Law of Ukraine “On Agricultural Land Market” are formed. Practical value. The practical implementation of the proposed measures will create favourable conditions for the development of the national land market, which will allow to solve state problems in the land and investment spheres, as well as to stimulate the development of the national economy. Key words: land, agricultural land, gross domestic product, state and state-guaranteed debt.

Державне регулювання інвестиційної діяльності в сільському господарстві: нормативно-правовий аспект

Based on the analysis of the world practice of the State regulation of investment activity in agriculture, the article sets priorities that include the development of a regulatory framework, formation of international and the State investment programs, accumulation of investment resources and financing of specific agricultural investment projects. Normative-legal regulation of investment activity in agriculture is analyzed based on consideration of aggregate measures carried out by public authorities, adoption and implementation of legal acts in accordance with institutional powers. The legal basis of this process is the Laws of Ukraine, decrees of the President of Ukraine, resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, orders and directives of the relevant government institutions. For their analysis, a historical digression was made and the evolution of the formation of the normative-legal mechanism of the State regulation of investment activity in agriculture, in particular by periodizing this process, was revealed. The separation of five stages of formation of the normative-legal mechanism of the State regulation of investment activity in agriculture allowed to pay more attention to qualitative changes in agrarian policy, gradual introduction of private land ownership, regulation of agricultural land use. The necessity of further improvement of the legal framework of investment activity in agriculture as an effective factor in the formation of a favorable investment climate and the implementation of relevant activities is substantiated. In this context, the significance of the adoption by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the Law "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine Concerning the Conditions of Circulation of Agricultural Land" and its alleged introduction of market circulation of agricultural land is revealed. It should be expected that the practical implementation of its provisions will help attract long-term lending to agricultural production and significantly expand investment activities.

Does Farmland Size Affect the Collective Action in Rural Areas? An Empirical Study on the Public Irrigation System in China

Since smallholders accounted for a high proportion of 98.1% among the 207 million agricultural business households across China, it is particularly important to study the impact of farmland size on the provision of public goods attached to the public sector industries from the perspective of the irrigation collective action in rural areas. Based on the survey data of 283 villages in China, this paper finds that the farmland size has a positive impact on irrigation collective action, although the average of per capita farmland area is only 0.214 hectares in each household of China. Therefore, it is necessary to promote the farmland scale operation by land circulation, so as to improve the ability of collective action and the development of public sector industries in rural areas of China.

Rural Collective Construction Land Transfer and Intergovernmental Power Allocation under the Background of Provincial Management at County Level

This paper uses the materials obtained from theoretical analysis and field visit and research on the circulation of rural collective construction land and the allocation of inter-governmental power under the background of provincial management at county level. Research and analysis found that the current power structure of China’s rural collective construction land transfer is distributed like a sword hilt, which is actually a manifestation of weakening the county-level government’s ability to allocate land resources. In the practice of county administrated by province reform, in order to ensure the most effective way for the new urbanization and industrialization led by the county-level government to interact and comprehensively advance, it is necessary to reconstruct the domestic collective construction land transfer power allocation system, so as to realize the combination of collective construction land transfer and provincial management at county level.

Impact of forest land tenure security on the circulation of ecological forest land:From the perspective of endowment effect and security perception

Impact of forest land tenure security on the circulation of ecological forest land:From the perspective of endowment effect and security perception

ПРОБЛЕМИ ФУНКЦІОНУВАННЯ І НАПРЯМИ РОЗВИТКУ ВНУТРІШНЬОГО РИНКУ ЗЕМЛІ В УКРАЇНІ

The processes that occur in various areas of the land market affect the quality of development of the national economic system. Issues of volume and conditions of purchase and sale of agricultural land, pricing and rent formation for industrial land use, environmental aspects of land use are extremely important given the feasibility and timeliness of land reform, which highlights the need for clear identification of existing problems and outline possible directions for development, land relations. The article analyzes the state of land use in Ukraine, profitability and profitability of agriculture. Instability, low investment attractiveness of the market, non-compliance with the norms of rational land use, land parceling, non-compliance with the criteria of environmental friendliness were noted. The negative consequences of the moratorium on land sales are the shadow use of land, a significant number of corruption schemes, land lordization, crop rotation violations. It was found that agricultural holdings, as beneficiaries of the current market model, use land quite efficiently, but the state remained excluded from the market. Lack of full circulation of land makes market pricing impossible, local monopolies appear on the rental market. The issue of creating a mortgage land bank for long-term lending secured by land remains unresolved. Among the problem areas are the improper functioning of the state land cadaster, gaps in land inventory and identification of market objects. Institutional regulation requires the determination of the boundaries of settlements, reserve lands and land massifs in the area, the definition of landowners and land users of land plots and their founders. The need for liberalization of market circulation is identified and its possible positive socio-economic consequences are outlined. Further scientific research is proposed to be aimed at solving the problem of developing a regulatory framework for the functioning of the internal land market, capable of providing equal rights and opportunities for all its participants.

An empirical study on the impact of non-grain planting on land transfer decisions based on binary Logit model

The trend of land transfer in China is parallel to the risk of food security. The "factors-countermeasures" method used in the general research is not effective for the symbionism within land transfer. Based on the Logit model, this paper empirically analyzes the impact of non-grain planting on land transfer. Research shows that: (1) In the regression analysis, the inflows and outflows, non-staple planting will be negative effects of land circulation (2) Plants grown planting intensive features suppresses the will of the individual farmers out of land, and grain planting scale features will enhance farmers into the land (3) Age, quality of labor force and total income of family also have significant influence on land transfer

基于熵权TOPSIS模型的农地流转效率评价

基于熵权TOPSIS模型的农地流转效率评价

Study on the path of Integration use of Land Resource elements under the background of Rural Revitalization

At present, with the rapid development of urban-rural integration, the problems of land fragmentation in rural areas, such as low land use rate, poor economic benefits, many production conflicts and disputes, land distribution difficulties and other negative effects, continue to appear, and the rural economic development is very severe. Based on this, this paper mainly studies the path of land resource integration, studies the reform of land system in various aspects, such as land circulation system, homestead reform, land acquisition system and other specific systems, and studies the specific path of land resource integration, so as to promote the land utilization rate, promote the rapid development of population industry and its development The increase of farmers' income.

ORGANIZATIONAL PRINCIPLES OF INVESTMENT ACTIVITY MANAGEMENT IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR OF UKRAINE

Introduction. The idea of the need to accelerate economic growth in agriculture is formed in the context of the development of the agricultural sector of the economy in society. Restoration of a full-fledged investment process in the agro-industrial complex is an important national problem, the solution of which will help increase the food security of the state and the exit of agro-industrial production and the social sphere from the crisis. The effective implementation of economic activity by the enterprise in the long run and ensuring high rates of development, increasing competitiveness in the transition to a market economy is largely determined by the level of activity and scale of investment activity. Methods. The methodological and theoretical basis of the study is the dialectical method of cognition and a systematic approach to the study of the fundamental provisions of economics in relation to the implementation of investment activities in the agricultural sector of Ukraine. A set of special methods of economic research is used in the research process. The conclusions of the research are formulated with the help of abstract and logical method. The method of theoretical generalization is used in the critical analysis of research results of domestic scientists on the substantiation of the development of infrastructure in the agricultural sector of Ukraine. Results. The main objectives of the management system of investment activities of agricultural enterprises are: to determine the economic efficiency of the investment project, in order to establish the feasibility of its implementation; ensuring the possibility of attracting the necessary amount of investment resources for the implementation of the investment project; formation of mechanisms and implementation of measures aimed at improving the efficiency of investment activities. The presented goals of the investment management system can be realized through the mechanism of management of sources of investment resources. Discussion. In the context of the introduction of agricultural land circulation, there is a need to develop institutions that will help attract investment in the development of the agricultural sector of Ukraine. The task is to introduce a system of certification of appraisers, which will determine the fair value of agricultural land that will be the subject of sale. In order to introduce land mortgage lending, we believe that in the future it is necessary to resume the activities of the State Mortgage Bank as a regulator of such operations. Keywords: agricultural sector, investment, investment activity, corporation, management.

Institutional Mechanisms of Land Development Management

A new institutional and neo-institutional theory theoretical apparatus in the field of land economy are revised and the necessity for further land development institutionalization in Ukraine is determined. Social economic relations are analyzed. It is revealed that land relations have an essential structure: in the form of an institutional complex, based on the traditional, customary and religious norms of individuals behavior, as well as social, political, economic, legal and other institutions, as stable socio-economic, organizational and legal structures, institutions and organizations. The main principles of new institutional and neo-institutional economy in the land sphere are determined, namely institute-centrism, limited rationality, historicism, economic opportunism, land good. The relationship nature of land relations institutionalization means with peculiarities of state financial and economic space formation in the author's interpretation is considered at the development level in Ukraine of land circulation institutional infrastructure, The State Land Bank and the National Land Fund formation as state institutions. It has been found that evolutionary institutional changes are inherent in social land development when partial peripheral gradual changes in rules and regulations cause gradual changes and land development. It is proved that state, having administrative advantages, acting by economic methods and methods of legal influence, should change and adapt the institutional environment, as a set of rules, norms that form the basis of production, exchange and redistribution in the land sphere, because the main link in the bundle of land rights, belongs to the people of Ukraine.

Соціально-економічні наслідки земельної реформи в Україні

The article examines theoretical foundations of socio-economic consequences of land reform in Ukraine. Prospects and possibilities for opening of the market of agricultural land in Ukraine through foreign experience in land reform are analyzed. It is determined that threre are a lot of agricultural enterprises, which use agricultural land mainly for maximum self-enrichment, while neglecting norms of rational land use. It is determined that attracted capital will be played the critical role in the process of agrarian reform, which within the legal framework of the mechanism of circulation of agricultural land will be used by all participants, namely the state and owners / sellers with buyers / tenants. The effectiveness of implementation and functioning of the land market will be carried out on the basis of the established scientific base, the operating activity of state bodies and taking into account the interests of market participants. The level of centralization and decentralization of land potential management is taken significant value in foreign countries, representative bodies of territorial communities have specific powers for land use, organizational and legal forms of land use and forms of ownership of land resources are exceptional. It is determined that results of land reform are assessed by identifying the social, economic and environmental consequences, which are considered in physical and qualitative terms. The consequences of land reform are manifested in real economy and have the long-term impact not only on it but also on life of society in general. Totally, this will concern not only the regulatory implementation of the rules for organizing of the market of agricultural land, but also the practical aspect of ensuring the implementation of land reform.

Property rights, land circulation and off-farm labor supply: evidence from a land tenure reform in China

Weak property rights over land prevent efficient allocation of production factors in the developing world. Farmers who lack title secure access to the land they work by providing evidence of productive use. The ``use it or lose it'' principle leads to a thin land rental market and a misallocation of labor between economic sectors. Leverage a land tenure reform in China starting in the late 1990s, I investigate the extent to which secure property rights increase allocative efficiency of land and labor. I exploit implementation of land policies with staggered timing to show that secure property rights led to 1) more land rental participants and a higher share of rented farmland and 2) a reallocation of rural labor towards the non-farm sector. To examine if there is a redistribution of farmland to productive farmers, I estimate a discrete choice model in which leases are categorized based on the relationships between landlords and tenants. The estimation shows that secure property rights lead to landlord-tenant matches that are less driven by relationship and location, indicating a more efficient allocation of land. I further apply the model to labor allocation and find that off-farm workers are more likely to migrate out of their hometowns than to work locally. I finally estimate the welfare impact of the land reform and find that a one standard deviation increase in land right intensity leads to 25\% increase in durable goods consumption.

Abolition of the moratorium on the circulation of agricultural land – is the criminal law of Ukraine ready for this?

The article clarifies the question of whether the current law of Ukraine on criminal liability needs to be changed in connection with the lifting of the moratorium on the circulation of agricultural land and the expected opening of the market for such land.It is proved that from the methodological standpoint it is more correct, when analyzing the relevant torts, to operate not with the term «abuse in the land market», which is popular in the legal literature, but with the wording «abuse in the sphere of land circulation».Based on the study of the relevant historical (drafts of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and foreign (criminal codes of Azerbaijan, Russian Federation and some other countries) experience, as well as taking into account the doctrine of criminalization and differentiation of criminal liability, it is concluded that the introduction of special criminal law prohibitions in the field of land circulation is not expedient.In particular, it is proved that the amendment of the Criminal Code of Ukraine by the provision on liability for illegal registration of an illegal transaction with a land plot will violate such a systemic legal principle of criminalization as the principle of absence of gaps in the law and absence of excessive prohibition. The shortcomings of the doctrinal proposal to supplement the Criminal Code of Ukraine with a norm on abuse of the land market with an abstract disposition are demonstrated. Existing norms on criminal liability for crimes in the sphere of official activity and professional activity related to the provision of public services and crimes against property can be qualified as abuse in the sphere of land circulation are demonstrated. It is believed that the prevalence of these abuses is not the result of gaps in the current substantive law on criminal liability, but, inter alia, the result of failure to ensure the principle of inevitability of criminal response to the commission of already prohibited criminal offenses.

Spatio-temporal pattern and driving mechanisms of cropland circulation in China

Land circulation is the transfer of land management rights without change of contracting and ownership rights. This is an effective solution for alleviating land fragmentation, facilitating the transfer of surplus rural labor, and improving rural income. Based on the provincial-level survey data from the Ministry of Agriculture of China, this study analyzes the spatio-temporal pattern of cropland circulation based on the cropland circulation rate (CCR), and explores the driving mechanism of cropland circulation from the perspectives of population, economy, agricultural investment, and legalization. The results showed that the CCR exhibited a polarized spatial pattern of “high value in the east and low value in the west” across China. Moreover, we observed significant spatial agglomeration of CCR, with Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai as centers of high CCR values and Sichuan and Gansu as centers of low CCR values. Furthermore, the spatial disparity of CCR showed an obviously narrowing trend during the period from 2014 to 2018. As for the circulation modes of cropland, the dominant mode in China is leasing (sub-contracting), which is easy to implement and directly increases farmers’ incomes. This paper further found that the critical driving forces of cropland circulation can be summarized as follows: transformation of rural labor to non-farming occupations, improvement of rural income, and legalization of land circulation markets. It should be noted that many off-farm workers have not given up their management rights for cropland, which is due to the following reasons: unstable job opportunities and insufficient social benefits of off-farm workers, low income from land rent and agricultural production, and lack of legal framework for land circulation. Therefore, urban-rural binary household registration (hukou) and migrant worker employment systems in China should be gradually reformed to accelerate the non-farming transformation of rural labor. Preferential policies for industrial investment can be made to attract more factories to operate in rural areas, which will bring more non-farming jobs to local famers and directly increase their incomes. Moreover, financial subsidy policies, land tenure system reform, and farmland consolidation strategies should also be launched to make land circulation more profitable for both land-givers and land-receivers. Finally, laws and regulations could be perfected and enforced to improve the legalization level of the land circulation market.

Земельна децентралізація як основа фінансової спроможності та сталого розвитку сільських територіальних громад

Земельна децентралізація як основа фінансової спроможності та сталого розвитку сільських територіальних громад