Socialized Farmland Operation—An Institutional Interpretation of Farmland Scale Management

Yiqing Su, Qiaoyuan Huang, Qi Meng (), Liangzhen Zang and Hua Xiao
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Yiqing Su: Regional Social Governance Innovation Research Center, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
Qiaoyuan Huang: School of Public Policy and Management, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
Qi Meng: School of Public Policy and Management, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
Liangzhen Zang: Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Hua Xiao: Rural Revitalization Service Center of Pingyuan County, Dezhou 253100, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, 1-21

Abstract: Farmland scale management is an important approach for developing countries to ensure food security in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. At present, the realization of farmland scale management through the path of farmland use rights trading encounters obstacles in practice; moreover, the new model of farmland scale management has rarely been systematically discussed. Considering the farmland trusteeship practice implemented in Shandong Province of China as the research case, this study discusses the essence and realization premise of the new farmland scale management model represented by farmland trusteeship based on case analysis. The conclusions are as follows. (1) The high cost generated from farmland scale management is the main obstacle to realize this model. (2) The process of realizing farmland scale management through farmland trusteeship is actually the process of meeting the requirements of the socialization of farmland use, the socialization of the farmland management process, and the socialization of farmland output. Thus, in the context of the existence of a large number of small and scattered farmers in China, the socialized farmland operation is the essence of farmland scale management. (3) Effective collective action is the premise of realizing socialized farmland operation. Undeniably, a lot more systematic explorations are further demanded to strengthen the irrigation management and infrastructures, promote and ensure stable village leadership, and comprehensively improve the ability of rural collective action to ensure the further strengthening of socialized farmland operation so as to realize stable farmland scale management, which will be pursued in the future.

Keywords: farmland scale management; farmland use rights trading; farmland trusteeship; farmland transfer; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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