An assessment of farmers’ satisfaction with land consolidation performance in China
An assessment of farmers’ satisfaction with land consolidation performance in China
复制标题
DOI：
10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.12.002
复制
发表时间：
2017-02
期刊：
影响因子：
7.1
通讯作者：
Wenbin Luo;D. Timothy
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Wenbin Luo;D. Timothy
一个世纪以来，农村土地整理一直是全世界非常重要和有效的发展工具，现在也是中国农村可持续发展不可或缺的工具。中国中央政府每年投入大量资金用于农村整治项目，以帮助保护耕地，提高农业生产，促进农村社区的社会经济发展，帮助建设农村风貌。然而，从社区成员的角度对土地整理项目的绩效进行评估却很少受到重视，这是迫切需要的。家庭对土地整理项目的满意度是衡量整理绩效的关键指标。了解影响农户满意度的因素，是解决农村土地整理与人类行为互动问题的有效途径，有助于提高项目绩效。本文从农户满意度的角度考察了中国农村土地整理的绩效，并分析了影响农户满意度最大的因素。通过问卷调查收集数据，并用概率模型进行分析。研究结果指出了三个显著的问题。首先，总体满意率为76.5%，这意味着杭州、长沙和贵阳地区的大多数农户对土地整理项目感到满意。第二，11个因素显著影响农村居民对土地整理的满意度。这些因素包括农民的教育水平、就业特征、家庭规模、农业生产投入水平、农产品运输方式、农业机械化水平、村内和家庭内土地流转的特点、对土地整理重要性的认识、对社会保险的支持程度以及对农村生产合作社的参与。第三，这些因素中有六个对绩效有积极的影响；四个有负面的影响，一个(就业特征)表现出显著的影响。
Rural land consolidation has been a very important and efficient development tool all over the world for a century and is now an indispensable instrument for rural sustainable development in China. The Chinese central government has devoted large sums of money to rural consolidation projects each year in an effort to help protect cultivated land, to improve agricultural production, to enhance the socio-economic development of rural communities, and to help build rural landscapes. However, little attention has been paid to evaluating the performance of land consolidation projects from the view of community members, which is sorely needed. Household satisfaction with land consolidation projects is a key indicator of consolidation performance. Understanding the factors that influence household satisfaction is an effective way of dealing with problems in the interactions between land restructuring and human behaviors in rural areas and can help improve project performance. This paper examines the performance of land consolidation in terms of rural households’ levels of satisfaction in rural China and analyses the most influential factors of satisfaction. Data were gathered via questionnaires and analyzed with a probit model. Results indicated three significant points. First, overall satisfaction rate was 76.5%, meaning that most rural households in the regions of Hangzhou, Changsha, and Guiyang were satisfied with land consolidation projects. Second, 11 factors significantly affected rural residents’ satisfaction with consolidation. These factors included farmers’ level of education, employment characteristics, family size, input level of agricultural production, agricultural produce transportation methods, level of agricultural mechanization, the characteristics of land transfer in the village and within their own families, the perceived importance of land consolidation, their level of social insurance support, and their participation in rural production cooperatives. Third, six of these factors had positive effects on performance; four had negative effects, and one (employment characteristics) demonstrated a significant influence.