scholarly journals Mitigation of land scarcity situation through tenure practices: a study on two selected villages in Jashore district of Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-169
Author(s):  
AK Ghosh ◽  
MHK Sujan
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Rural Households ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Land Distribution ◽  
Rural Farmers ◽  
Land Scarcity ◽  
Land Tenancy ◽  
Land Transaction ◽  
Cultivable Land

Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries with immense pressure on agricultural land in rural areas. Mainstream of the rural households depend on either agriculture or its associated activities for their livelihood. However, rural land distribution is highly skewed, majority of them are landless. Under such a land scarce situation, farmers in rural areas have been gradually inclining towards land tenancy. Present study steered to explore the nature and volume of temporary land transaction through tenancy agreement in studied areas and to scrutinize its role in aligning land distribution. In 2017, a total of 166 farmers were randomly selected from two different villages in Jashore district for study. Result of the study administrated that land tenancy practice has been significantly mitigating land disparity among rural farmers. Study also explored that comparatively rich farmers are leaning towards tenant out land and most of these lands tenanted in by the landless and marginal farmers. Consequently, on an average landless farm could significantly increases their cultivable land from 0.01 acre to 0.98 acre compared to the marginal farm 0.31 to 0.73 acres. At the same time, cultivable land of medium farm has decreased as of 3.74 acres to 2.83 acres in studied villages. Int. J. Agril. Res. Innov. Tech. 10(2): 164-169, December 2020

scholarly journals Rural Land Market, Livelihood and Welfare among Households in Oyo State, Southwest Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Olubunmi O. Alawode
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rural Households ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Land Market ◽  
Land Markets ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Crop Farming ◽  
Southwest Nigeria

With rapid population growth and resulting increased land fragmentation, landholding becomes smaller, negatively impacting on the living standard of rural households. Thus, the need to understand the potentials of land markets to improve rural households’ access to land through the adjustment of households’ landholding for livelihood activities, and its consequent effect on their welfare. This paper examined the relationship between rural land market, livelihood and welfare among households in Oyo state, Southwest Nigeria. Using a structured questionnaire, a survey was conducted on a sample of 200 respondents, who were selected through multistage sampling procedure. Descriptive statistics, Land Market Index (LMI), Tobit model and multiple regression analysis were used to analyse the primary data. Results show that majority (74.0%) of households were involved in crop farming with mean income of ₦53 833.33 (±26 784.560), which was relatively higher than livestock ₦31 567.08 (±20 897.47). The mean total monthly expenditure was ₦26 548.50 (±8945.5692). Identified land transaction methods include purchase (76.3%), lease (19.8%), and rent (3.9%). On the average, 97.0% of land held by households were acquired through market (LMI=0.97). Sex and household status had significant positive effects on the extent of households’ participation in land market at p<0.01. Also, LMI, crop farming and livestock farming had significant positive effect on households’ welfare. Obtaining land through market for livelihood activities promotes households’ welfare. Rural land market and livelihood activities have significant positive effects on the welfare of farmers. There is need for Government to facilitate formal land markets in rural areas.

scholarly journals Empirical Studies on the Relationship between Households’ Trust in Government and Agricultural Land Tenancy-Based on the Households Survey in Four Provinces

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Yuan Wei ◽  
Xu Guanjun ◽  
Li Yingzi ◽  
Jin Jingjing
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Trust In Government ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Land Tenancy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

In the premise of the separation of ownership and use right of land in China’s rural areas, agricultural land tenancy will be inevitably subject to the influence from the grass-roots government. In order to analyze the role of the trust in government from farmers in land tenancy, we have made a field research on 1305 households in 36 villages randomly selected in Shandong, Hubei, Gansu and Guangxi Provinces and got first-hand data in the year of 2010.In this thesis, we made statistical descriptions of households’ trust in government and agricultural land tenancy in field survey areas firstly, and then found that the formers have significant effect on the latter from the empirical analysis. Furthermore, as with the increase of the degree of farmers’ trust in government, the ratio of the land tenancy net of final use of the land will become less and less, which means a greater possibility of land leasing. In another word, the more the households’ trust in government is, the more inclined the land tenancy will be. In this paper, we have explained the conclusions above and given the relevant policy recommendations from the conclusions.

scholarly journals Alternative Methods for Keeping Land in Agriculture

1973 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederic O. Sargent
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Land Market ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Second Homes ◽  
Land Use Controls

Creeping urbanization without land use controls is threatening rural areas with the loss of prime and scenic agricultural land. The operation of a relatively free land market shifts land to the highest bidder—one who believes he can make a profit, or one who judges his psychic income from ownership and/or use sufficient to make him prefer land ownership to alternative investments or consumption. As farmers retire and sell to nonfarmers, prime agricultural land adjacent to cities is transferred to more intensive, profitable, and irreversible urban uses—residences, commerce, recreation, and industry. Farmland is shifted from active farming to retirement homes and second homes, both at retail and in large developments. This land use trend is frequently cited as undesirable by municipal planners since it leads to a loss of prime agricultural land which may be needed for future food production and reduces pastoral scenery. In a recent study in Massachusetts, J. B. Wyckoff found that the process of suburbanization was consuming rural land at a very rapid rate—from two to eight times the historic rate.

scholarly journals Types of Agriculture Land Tenancy System in Demak District, Demak Regency

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Miranda Martiza Mouris ◽  
Bakti Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Mutual Arrangement ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Land Protection ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Land Tenancy ◽  
System 2 ◽  
The Government ◽  
On Farm

Agricultural tenancy system is a farmland management system commonly used by farmers. This system poses as a provider for rural community’s job opportunities and occupations. The purpose of this research is to identify types of tenancy system and the on-farm profiles in Demak District, Demak Regency. The connection between farmlands and these profiles may become a ground for mutual arrangement with the government in order to protect the existence of farmlands. The result of survey to 238 respondents in the district identified there are at least four types of tenancy system that exist in Demak District society, namely: (1) basic tenancy system, (2) partial tenancy system, (3) farm bussiness tenancy system, and (4) managerial tenancy system.  Furthermore, based on age characteristics and farming experience data, it is identified that there are possibilities of scarcity in farming profiles of the next generation, which may threat the existence of farmlands. Author argued that the scarcity may be due to job diversification in rural areas. This research suggests a new approach to implement the agricultural land protection policy by modifying one of the existing agricultural land tenancy systems into a contract based system with the government. The contract is aimed to formalize and bind on-farm profiles with their farmland, as well as to limit the number of them. Thus, other productive labor force may be shifted to another field for regional economic development.

scholarly journals Review on Gender and Poverty, Gender Inequality in Land Tenure, Violence Against Woman and Women Empowerment Analysis: Evidence in Benin with Survey Data

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baoubadi Atozou ◽  
Radjabu Mayuto ◽  
Alexis Abodohoui
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Rural Households ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Poisson Model ◽  
Land Rights

Inequalities in opportunities and rights between women and men have occupied many researchers over the last two decades. This study reviews literature on (i) gender and poverty, (ii) inequalities in land rights between women and men and their implications for the economic and social development of rural areas in developing countries, and (iii) violence against women in the rural population. World Bank survey data (3507 rural households) were used to analyze women's perceptions of agricultural land rights and violence against women in Benin. The Poisson model is adopted to investigate the determinants of physical violence against women in rural households in Benin. The results show that women are more vulnerable to poverty than men. Women are disadvantaged in access to productive assets such as access to credit and arable land, education, labor market, control of incomes earned in households, and are excluded in decision-making in households and institutions. The results also highlight that women in rural areas do not have access to land and do not participate in land management decisions. Based on the Poisson model, the results show that restrictions imposed on women by their spouses significantly increase the number of physical violence against women in households. Moreover, the results suggest also that an increase in the economic value of assets owned by women significantly reduces the incidence of physical violence against women in households. These results suggest that implementing development actions to increase incomes and empowerment women helps to reduce poverty, increases food security, reduces violence against women, and improves household welfare. 

scholarly journals The analysis of the spatial layout of land in relation to less favoured areas (LFA) in the Milejów comune, Łęczna district

2019 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 00014
Author(s):  
Żanna Stręk ◽  
Justyna Wójcik-Leń
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Spatial Arrangement ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
Production Space ◽  
Political Conditions

Rural land in Poland accounts for more than 90% of the area of the country and plays a very significant role. It is inhabited by 38.1% of the population. Unfortunately, these people are largely unemployed. The present status of the agricultural production space is a result of many centuries of human activity closely connected with social and economic, legal and political conditions. The spatial arrangement of land in the rural areas of central, southern, south eastern and eastern Poland, developed by historical processes, is characterized by the frequent occurrence of individual plot patchworks. An incorrect configuration of land owned by farmers considerably affects the profitability and effectiveness of agricultural production. The accession of Poland to the European Union offered many options for development to our country and in particular to the Polish countryside. Reconstruction of the defective spatial structure in Poland is one of the priorities of the EU’s agricultural policy. Numerous development programmes (SOP, RDP) are used for financing land consolidation and exchange works which are one of the basic tools for transforming ownership and structural relations in rural areas. With regard to the fact that agricultural land in Poland is greatly differentiated, particular attention should be paid to less favoured areas (LFA). It seems obvious that farmers in LFA are not able to generate the same earnings from crops as those generated by farmers in favoured areas. For the purposes of this publication, detailed surveys were carried out in the Milejów commune, Łęczna district, Lublin voivodship. Five villages in that commune were classified as less favoured areas. The analyses showed that Milejów is one of two communes in the Łęczna district with the smallest average area of plot owned by individual farmers. Based on the analysis of the structure of ownership and use, fragmentation and distribution of plots, as well as identification of less favoured areas, an alternative land development model was proposed, along with the reconstruction of the existing arrangement of land through comprehensive consolidation and exchange of land.

scholarly journals Rural Renovation in les Landes, South West France : A French Regional Development Experiment

2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (27) ◽  
pp. 365-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. G. Ironstone
Keyword(s):  
Land Management ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
South West ◽  
Constant Rate ◽  
Term Basis

Regional planning is an important item of government policy in France, and the rural land management of the Landes in the Aquitaine region offers a good example. The factors which instigated this planning operation were the constant rate of decrease in the areas under forest and of agricultural land, the decline in economic activity in an area where the natural environment is not very favourable and the exodus of the population. Numerous measures have been taken to improve the level of the economy in this region. In 1965, la Compagnie d'aménagement des Landes de Gascogne was established; its main objective is to protect the forest from destruction by creating enclaves of subsistence agriculture, which serve as fire breaks and at the same time reactivate the economy. La Compagnie d'aménagement des Landes de Gascogne aims there fore at stabilizing the region once again by setting up new activities. The arable land has been re-divided and transport, drainage and irrigation equipment, capable of attracting labour, is being installed. The planning organization has partially attained the goals that were set. The area of forest devastated by fire has been reduced more and more, and agricultural returns are higher. On a long term basis, the application of this plan of land management in the rural areas of Aquitaine is proving a success.

scholarly journals Can Land Transfer Alleviate the Poverty of the Elderly? Evidence from Rural China

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (21) ◽  
pp. 11288
Author(s):  
Wei Wang ◽  
Xin Luo ◽  
Chongmei Zhang ◽  
Jiahao Song ◽  
Dingde Xu
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Rural Elderly ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Relative Poverty ◽  
Land Transfer ◽  
Elderly Poverty ◽  
Effective Transfer ◽  
The Impact

This study explores the impact of farmland transfer on the multidimensional relative poverty of the elderly in rural areas to provide a reference for the study of rural land transfer in China and improve the welfare system for the elderly. Based on the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) rural sample data in 2018, this paper uses the AF multidimensional index measurement method to assess multidimensional relative poverty in rural areas. Logit regression estimation examines the single index poverty of rural older adults transferred from rural land and the impact of multidimensional relative poverty, using the propensity score matching method (PSM) to analyze the results’ robustness. The transfer of agricultural land has different impacts on the poverty of different rural elderly poverty indicators and negatively affects the comprehensive effect of rural elderly poverty. The transfer of agricultural land significantly alleviates rural elderly poverty. Reasonable and effective transfer of agricultural land, together with improved rural social security and a caring service system for the elderly, will promote the continuous operation of large-scale agricultural operations and alleviate rural elderly poverty.

Agricultural land rehabilitation following 2010 Darfield (Canterbury) earthquake

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 432-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Almond ◽  
T.M. Wilson ◽  
F. Shanhun ◽  
Z. Whitman ◽  
A. Eger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Surface Deformation ◽  
Fault Rupture ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Land Owners ◽  
Agricultural Use ◽  
Recovery Group ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Micro Topography

This paper describes the nature of earthquake damage and rehabilitation of rural land affected by fault rupture and liquefaction following the 4 September 2010 Darfield (Canterbury) Earthquake. Remediation of land damaged by fault rupture and liquefaction was a significant concern for affected farmers and land-owners. A multidisciplinary team of researchers linked to the Rural Recovery Group (responsible for recovery of rural areas following the Canterbury earthquake) used a variety of techniques to assess land damage and evaluate the effectiveness of various rehabilitation techniques. It was found that land damage caused by strike slip fault rupture could generally be repaired by heavy roller. In areas of severe surface deformation and fracturing, deep cultivation followed by rolling was necessary to close surface fractures and flatten fault micro-topography to restore the land to a useable condition for agricultural use. Liquefaction damage to land consisted of blistered topography (by liquefied sediment injecting between topsoil and sub-soil) and liquefied sediment ejection at the surface. Both surfaces were often unsuitable for continuing agricultural operations. Several passes by a rotary-hoe and power-harrow effectively smoothed blisters and returned paddocks to a suitable state. Land severely affected by sediment ejection required scraping or grading of the sediment to < 50 mm and cultivation of the material into the topsoil. Both treatments resulted in destruction of current pasture or crop. Land less severely affected could be treated by spreading only, which conserved the existing pasture. Future work will track the on-going recovery of remediated and un-remediated land.

Climate Change and Land Use Change of Rural Households in The Red River Delta, Vietnam

2013 ◽  
pp. 79-94
Author(s):  
Ngoc Luu Bich
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Rural Households ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Red River ◽  
Red River Delta ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Main Production ◽  
Farming Households

Climate change (CC) and its impacts on the socio-economy and the development of communities has become an issue causing very special concern. The rise in global temperatures, in sea levels, extreme weather phenomena, and salinization have occurred more and more and have directly influenced the livelihoods of rural households in the Red River Delta – one of the two regions projected to suffer strongly from climate change in Vietnam. For farming households in this region, the major and traditional livelihoods are based on main production materials as agricultural land, or aquacultural water surface Changes in the land use of rural households in the Red River Delta during recent times was influenced strongly by the Renovation policy in agriculture as well as the process of industrialization and modernization in the country. Climate change over the past 5 years (2005-2011) has started influencing household land use with the concrete manifestations being the reduction of the area cultivated and the changing of the purpose of land use.

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