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Farmers’ attitudes toward land titling and its potential effects on rural development in China

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  • Zhonghua Huang
  • Xuejun Du

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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate farmers’ attitudes and behavior toward land titling and to study its potential effects on rural development. Design/methodology/approach - Using household survey data collected from five provinces of China in 2010, this paper assesses farmer’s attitudes toward land titling and examines the potential effects of land titling on rural land transferring and labor migration. Findings - Rural residential land titling has significant effects on farmers’ attitudes toward land transferring and their migration intention. Farmers who have more non-agricultural development opportunities are more likely to welcome land titling. The titling of rural residential land could provide secure property rights for farmers, and thus stimulate them to trade, mortgage their rural residential property, and migrate to urban areas. Research limitations/implications - Land titling in rural China will probably affect rural land transferring and encourage rural labor migrate to urban, and thus promote rural development. Originality/value - This paper investigates farmers’ attitudes and behavior toward land titling, and examines its potential effects on rural land transferring and labor migration, based on national survey data. This paper sheds new lights on farmers’ demand for types of land tenure reforms and how these reforms would affect the perceived opportunities available for farmers.

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  • Zhonghua Huang & Xuejun Du, 2018. "Farmers’ attitudes toward land titling and its potential effects on rural development in China," China Agricultural Economic Review, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 10(3), pages 425-442, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:caerpp:caer-10-2015-0130
    DOI: 10.1108/CAER-10-2015-0130
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    1. Ying Chen & Xiaolu Ni & Yajia Liang, 2022. "The Influence of External Environment Factors on Farmers’ Willingness to Withdraw from Rural Homesteads: Evidence from Wuhan and Suizhou City in Central China," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(9), pages 1-13, September.
    2. Ding, Zhao & Jiang, Yuansheng, 2020. "Experience, learning behavior, and rural households’ preferences for microfinance," 2020 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, Kansas City, Missouri 304308, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    3. Gao, Yang & Liu, Bei & Yu, Lili & Yang, Haoran & Yin, Shijiu, 2019. "Social capital, land tenure and the adoption of green control techniques by family farms: Evidence from Shandong and Henan Provinces of China," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 89(C).
    4. Lili Chen & Jiquan Peng & Yibei Zhang, 2022. "Research on the Impact of Rural Land Transfer on Non-Farm Employment of Farm Households: Evidence from Hubei Province, China," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(23), pages 1-19, November.

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