Does the Collective Forestland Tenure Reform Promote Rural Households’ Forestry Inputs? Based on Dual Perspectives of Rural Households’ Divergence and Inter-Generational Differences

Jian Wei, Hui Xiao, Hao Liu, Xiaotao Huang and Dahong Zhang ()
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Jian Wei: School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Hui Xiao: School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Hao Liu: Development Research Center, China National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Beijing 100714, China
Xiaotao Huang: School of Economics and Management, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350007, China
Dahong Zhang: School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 20, 1-23

Abstract: As the most direct subject of collective forestland tenure reform, rural households’ forestry production behavior is an important guarantee for the promotion of sustainable forestry development. Based on the survey data of 12,760 rural households in 9 provinces in China, we construct a theoretical analysis framework of the impact of collective forestland tenure reform on rural households’ forestry inputs from the perspective of rural household differentiation and inter-generational differences, and elucidate the mechanism of the effect of collective forestland tenure reform on rural households’ forestry inputs in the context of rural household differentiation and inter-generational differences. The results of the empirical analysis show that collective forestland tenure reform significantly increases rural households’ forestry inputs; this effect has a differentiated impact on rural households with different degrees of differentiation and inter-generational differences. Although the collective forestland tenure reform provides a good institutional environment for households to increase the enthusiasm of forestry inputs, the positive incentive effect of collective forestland tenure reform tends to decline as the degree of households’ differentiation and inter-generational differences deepen. Therefore, this research tries to provide an “indirect” policy adjustment idea to deepen the policies related to collective forestland tenure reform by starting from the differentiation of households and inter-generational differences.

Keywords: collective forestland tenure reform; forestry inputs; farmer differentiation; inter-generational differences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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