Assessing farmland protection policy in China
Assessing farmland protection policy in China
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DOI：
10.1016/j.landusepol.2006.01.005
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发表时间：
2008-01-01
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影响因子：
7.1
通讯作者：
Ding, Chengri
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作者：
Lichtenberg, Erik;Ding, Chengri
中国政府将耕地转为工业和住宅用途，特别是在最具生产力的农业地区，作为对国家持续生产足够水平的主食谷物的主要威胁。为此，中国政府出台了一系列措施，旨在保护耕地，特别是最具生产潜力的耕地。本文回顾了现有的证据，中国的耕地保护政策的绩效，其粮食安全目标的光。我们总结了近年来的耕地保护措施。尽管对耕地转换有行政限制，但耕地面积继续减少。有证据表明，很大一部分农田损失并不代表粮食生产能力的下降。它还表明，其他生产要素的增加可以弥补耕地的损失，耕地保护并不是实现中国粮食安全目标的最有效手段，甚至不是必要手段。然而，现有的制度和政策结构为耕地保留不足和过度耕地转换提供了激励，导致土地利用效率严重低下。我们讨论了这些失败对未来政策发展的影响，重点是土地分配制度的改革。(c)2007爱思唯尔有限公司保留所有权利。
The government of China targeted conversion of farmland to industrial and residential uses, especially in the most productive agricultural regions, as the chief threat to the nation's continued capacity to produce adequate levels of staple cereals. In response, it has introduced a number of measures aimed at protecting farmland, especially farmland with the greatest production potential. This paper reviews the existing evidence regarding the performance of China's farmland protection policies in light of its food security goals. We summarize recent farmland protection measures. Despite administrative restrictions on farmland conversion, cropland continues to decline. The evidence suggests that a substantial share of farmland losses does not represent a reduction in food production capacity. It also suggests that increases in other factors of production can compensate for farmland losses and that farmland protection is not the most efficient-or even a necessary-means of meeting China's food security goals. However, the existing institutional and policy structure create incentives for both insufficient farmland retention and excessive farmland conversion, resulting in significant inefficiencies in land use. We discuss the implications of these failures for future policy development, with an emphasis on reform of the land allocation system. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.