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LAND USE POLICY
Volume 107, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105517
Keywords
Land consolidation; Spillover effects; Land use transition; Rural revitalization; Sustainable development
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The study highlights the close relationship between the rise of large-scale farming and local non-farm employment and agricultural mechanization levels, with significant spatial spillover effects. The expansion of local large-scale farming is positively associated with the ratio of non-farm employment and level of agricultural mechanization, influencing the increase of large-scale farms in neighboring counties.
In this paper, we search to link changes in non-farm employment and agricultural mechanization to the emergence of large-scale farming in China. Based on county-level data for the Jiangsu Province from 2002 to 2016, we use spatial panel data techniques to understand how the increase in large-scale farming in one county is explained by changes in employment and mechanization in the county itself as well as by changes in the neighboring counties. Our results confirm the presence of substantial spatial spillover effects. The level to which large-scale farming is present and expanding in one county is positively associated with local non-farm employment and agricultural mechanization levels. A local higher non-farm employment ratio also contributes to an increase in large-scale farms in neighboring counties. Hence, if a local government intends to support large-scale farming, it can bank on the creation of non-farm employment and support agricultural mechanization in the county it governs. Also economic and policy changes in the neighboring counties will induce land use transition when non-farm employment is created.
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