Spatial Differentiation of Cultivated Land Use Intensification in Village Settings: A Survey of Typical Chinese Villages

Quanfeng Li, Zhe Dong, Guoming Du and Aizheng Yang
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Quanfeng Li: School of Public Administration and Law, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
Zhe Dong: School of Public Administration and Law, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
Guoming Du: School of Public Administration and Law, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
Aizheng Yang: School of Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China

Land, 2021, vol. 10, issue 3, 1-18

Abstract: The intensified use of cultivated land is essential for optimizing crop planting practices and protecting food security. This study employed a telecoupling framework to evaluate the cultivated land use intensification rates in typical Chinese villages (village cultivated land use intensifications—VCLUIs). The pressure–state–response (PSR) model organizes the VCLUI indexes including the intensity press, output state, and structural response of cultivated land use. Empirical analysis conducted in Baiquan County, China, indicating that the cultivated land use intensification levels of the whole county were low. However, the intensifications of villages influenced by physical and geographic locations and socioeconomic development levels varied significantly. This paper also found that variations in the VCLUIs were mainly dependent on new labor-driven social subsystem differences. Thus, the expanding per capita farmland scales and increasing numbers of new agricultural business entities were critical in improving the VCLUI. Overall, the theoretical framework proposed in this study was demonstrated to be effective in analyzing interactions among the natural, social, and economic subsystems of the VCLUI. The findings obtained in this study potentially have important implications for future regional food security, natural stability, and agricultural land use sustainability.

Keywords: cultivated land use intensification; the pressure-state-response model; the village setting; China; land system; telecoupling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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