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New Round of Collective Forest Rights Reform, Forestland Transfer and Household Production Efficiency

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  • Jinna Yu

    (Business School, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang 550025, China)

  • Yiming Wei

    (School of Business, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210046, China)

  • Wei Fang

    (Institute of Agricultural Economic and Information, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China)

  • Zhen Liu

    (School of Business, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210046, China)

  • Yujie Zhang

    (Business Economics Group, Wageningen University and Research, 6700 HB Wageningen, The Netherlands)

  • Jing Lan

    (College of Public Administration, Nanjing Agricultura University, Nanjing 210095, China)

Abstract

The purpose of this paper was to analyze the influence mechanism of the new round of Collective Forest Rights Reform (CFRR) on farmers’ production efficiency from the perspective of forestland transfer. Based on the panel data of field investigation in Jiangxi Province, a panel logit model was used to verify whether the new round of CFRR has affected farmers’ forestland circulation behavior. The results showed that the new round of CFRR has played a significant role in promoting forestland circulation. Secondly, the non-parametric DEA method was used to estimate the technical, scale, and comprehensive efficiency of households. DID and panel quantile models were constructed to analyze the impact of forestland inflow policy and forestland outflow policy effects on rural household productivity. The regression results showed that the effect of forestland inflow has had a significantly positive impact on scale and comprehensive efficiency, but it only had a significant effect on technical efficiency in the 0.1 quartile. The effect of forestland outflow was not found to be significant for technical, scale, and comprehensive efficiency, but it was found to be negative for technical efficiency in the 0.75 quartile and negative for scale efficiency in the 0.5 and 0.75 quantiles.

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  • Jinna Yu & Yiming Wei & Wei Fang & Zhen Liu & Yujie Zhang & Jing Lan, 2021. "New Round of Collective Forest Rights Reform, Forestland Transfer and Household Production Efficiency," Land, MDPI, vol. 10(9), pages 1-22, September.
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