Systems of Land Use as a Determinant of Land Tenure

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of farmers’ risk perceptions regarding rubber farming on their land use choices, including rubber specialization and crop diversification. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional survey data of some 600 smallholder rubber farmers in Xishuangbanna in Southwest China is employed. This paper develops a general conceptual framework that incorporates a subjective risk item into a model of farmers’ land use choices, thereby developing four econometric models to estimate the role of risk perceptions, and applies instrumental variables to control for the endogeneity of risk perceptions. Findings The results demonstrate that risk perceptions play an important role in smallholders’ decision-making regarding land use strategies to address potential risks in rubber farming. Smallholders with higher risk perceptions specialize in rubber farming less often and are more likely to diversify their land use, thereby contributing to local environmental conservation in terms of agrobiodiversity. The land use choices of smallholder rubber farmers are also associated with ethnicity, household wealth, off-farm employment, land tenure status, altitude and rubber farming experience. Originality/value This study contributes to a better understanding of the implications of farmers’ risk perceptions and shows entry points for improving the sustainability of rubber-based land use systems.

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Vulnerabilities and Threats to Natural Forest Regrowth: Land Tenure Reform, Land Markets, Pasturelands, Plantations, and Urbanization in Indigenous Communities in Mexico

Land ◽

10.3390/land10121340 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (12) ◽

pp. 1340

Author(s):

Elena Lazos-Chavero ◽

Paula Meli ◽

Consuelo Bonfil

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Tenure ◽

Natural Regeneration ◽

Forest Conservation ◽

Biosphere Reserve ◽

Indigenous Communities ◽

Landscape Restoration ◽

Peasant Communities ◽

Tenure Reform ◽

Biological Corridor

Despite the economic and social costs of national and international efforts to restore millions of hectares of deforested and degraded landscapes, results have not met expectations due to land tenure conflicts, land-use transformation, and top-down decision-making policies. Privatization of land, expansion of cattle raising, plantations, and urbanization have created an increasingly competitive land market, dispossessing local communities and threatening forest conservation and regeneration. In contrast to significant investments in reforestation, natural regrowth, which could contribute to landscape regeneration, has not been sufficiently promoted by national governments. This study analyzes socio-ecological and economic vulnerabilities of indigenous and other peasant communities in the Mexican states of Veracruz, Chiapas, and Morelos related to the inclusion of natural regeneration in their forest cycles. While these communities are located within protected areas (Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve, Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve, El Tepozteco National Park, and Chichinautzin Biological Corridor), various threats and vulnerabilities impede natural regeneration. Although landscape restoration involves complex political, economic, and social relationships and decisions by a variety of stakeholders, we focus on communities’ vulnerable land rights and the impacts of privatization on changes in land use and forest conservation. We conclude that the social, economic, political, and environmental vulnerabilities of the study communities threaten natural regeneration, and we explore necessary changes for incorporating this process in landscape restoration.

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Main trends and problems of spatial development of agricultural land use and land tenure in the Non-Chernozem Economic Zone of Russia

10.33920/sel-04-2104-01 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

G.A. Polunin ◽

V.V. Alakoz

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Tenure ◽

Agricultural Land ◽

Spatial Development ◽

Agricultural Land Use ◽

Economic Zone

The article sets out the main goals, objectives and priorities of the spatial development of agricultural land use and land tenure in the territories of the Non-Black Earth Economic Zone. The principles, main directions and scenarios of the spatial development of agricultural land use are given. The greatest attention is paid to the mechanisms of spatial development of agricultural land use.

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Problems of Land Tenure and Land Use of the Trans-Baikal Buryats and its Solution by the National Authorities

Humanitarian Vector ◽

10.21209/1996-7853-2021-16-3-62-70 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 62-70

Author(s):

Sanzhieva Tatyana E. ◽

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Tenure ◽

Baikal Region ◽

Historical Narrative ◽

National Committee ◽

Main Task ◽

Autonomous Region ◽

National Movement ◽

Land Relations ◽

Far Eastern

The article is devoted to the problem of land tenure and land use by the Buryat population in the Trans-Baikal region at the beginning of the XX century, before the formation of the BMASSR, which became the main one in the self-preservation of the ethnos. If the national movement and the struggle for autonomy have been well studied in historiography, the regulation of land relations is the main motive for activating the national movement and the demand for autonomy. The article is based on published and unpublished materials of the Burnatskom, the Far Eastern Republic and the Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Region. The author used microhistorical approach, as well as historical, narrative and comparative methods, which made it possible to study the historical events of 1900–1923 in the field of land relations in Transbaikalia against the historical background of events taking place in the country, in close connection with changes in political conditions and the formation of administrative and state structures. It was believed that the Buryats had more land, therefore at the beginning of the 20th century. According to the land reform, the withdrawal to the “state colonization fund” for the resettlement of immigrants increased and the unauthorized seizure of the land of the Buryats by Russian peasants during the revolutionary period increased. The tsarist government reduced the land holdings of the Buryats in order to switch them to agricultural economy, despite the ineffectiveness of its distribution. A great inconvenience for land use was the artificially created striped distribution of land between the Buryat and Russian populations. The problems of land tenure and land use became one of the incentives of the national movement and the formation of its governing body – the Buryat National Committee (Burnatskom), whose main task was the establishment of national autonomy, within which land problems must be resolved. Burnatskom managed to create an aimak administration, which was able to exist during the period of the Provisional Government, and during the years of the civil war. With the formation of the Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Region as part of the Far Eastern Republic, the problem of land tenure and land use by the Buryat population remained open in connection with the continuing seizure of Buryat lands by Russian peasants. Despite the new legislation of the Far Eastern Republic and the RSFSR, the land issue in the BMAO was not resolved. Keywords: Trans-Baikal region, Buryats, land use, land tenure, national movement, Burnatskom, Buryat- Mongolian Autonomous Region

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Main trends and problems of spatial development of agricultural land use and land tenure in the Non-Chernozem Economic Zone of Russia

10.33920/sel-04-2101-01 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 5-16

Author(s):

G.A. Polunin ◽

V.V. Alakoz

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Tenure ◽

Agricultural Production ◽

Agricultural Land ◽

Spatial Development ◽

Agricultural Land Use ◽

Existing Problems ◽

Land Relations ◽

European Part Of Russia ◽

Economic Zone

The article outlines the main trends in the spatial development of agricultural land use and land tenure in the Non-Chernozem Economic Zone of the European part of Russia, which are summarized in several groups; worldwide trends, the most significant changes in countries, production and market phenomena, changes in the forms and types of ownership and land management. An assessment of the main problems that prevent the spatial development of agricultural land use is considered in the article paying the special attention to the areas unfavorable for agricultural production. The authors describe the existing problems in the field of land relations and administration of agricultural lands.

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Land for the Fellahin, VI Land Tenure and Land Use in the Near East

American Journal of Economics and Sociology ◽

10.1111/j.1536-7150.1959.tb00309.x ◽

1959 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 193-193

Author(s):

Raymond E. Crist

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Tenure ◽

Near East

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Determinants of forest land use decisions among rural farm households in south-western Nigeria

Agricultura tropica et subtropica ◽

10.2478/ats-2018-0009 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 51 (2) ◽

pp. 83-91

Author(s):

Ayoade Matthew Adetoye ◽

Samuel Ayodele Adewuyi ◽

Dare Akerele

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Tenure ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Sustainable Land Use ◽

Farm Households ◽

Primary Data ◽

Forest Land ◽

Land Use Decisions ◽

Choice Proportion ◽

Multistage Sampling

Abstract The study examined factors determining forest land use decisions among rural farm households in south-western Nigeria. Primary data on socio-economic and community characteristics as well as land use systems were obtained from 300 farm households using a structured questionnaire through a multistage sampling technique. The study revealed that marital status (P < 0.01), gender (P < 0.01), land tenure security (P < 0.01), dominant crop type (P < 0.05), and preference for tree on farm land (P < 0.01) are factors influencing forest land use decision in either agroforestry, pure cultivation or in both practices. Land use choice proportion estimation shows that 63 % are still willing to retain their existing land use practice (pure cultivation). A total of 32 % are willing to shift completely from their existing land use practice while 4 % of the respondents are willing to practice both “agroforestry and pure cultivation” simultaneously. The study therefore suggests the need for a change in forest land use policy, particularly, with a view influence the pattern of use, limitation on type of crop that can be grown, and compliance to sustainable land use practice. This would go a long way in driving forest land use towards agroforestry – a practice identified as a means of ensuring food security while ensuring safe environment.

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