Has China’s new round of collective forest reforms caused an increase in the use of productive forest inputs? |
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| Institution: | 1. College of Management, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China;2. College of Economics and Management, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China;3. Department of Forestry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA;1. School of Economics, Renmin University of China, People''s Republic of China;2. Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley, United States;3. National School of Development, Peking University, People''s Republic of China;1. Institute of Rural Development, Changbei Economic and Technological Development Zone, Jiangxi Agricultural University; No. 1101 Zhimin Avenue, Nanchang 330045, China;2. Collaborative Innovation Center of Modern Agriculture and Decision Support of Sustainable Development of Competitive Industries in Jiangxi, China;3. School of Tourism Management, South China Normal University, No. 50 Zhongshan Avenue West, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510631, China;1. Economics and Management College, Northwest Agricultural and Forestry University of China, 712100, China;2. China National Forestry Economics and Development Research Center, Beijing 100714, China;3. Canadian Forest Service, Atlantic Forestry Center, P.O. Box 4000, 1350 Regent Street, Fredericton, NB E3B 5P7, Canada;4. Economics and Management College, China Agricultural University, No. 17 Qinghua East Road, 100081 Beijing, China;1. College of Economics and Management, Zhejiang Agriculture & Forestry University, Lin''an 311300, China;2. Research Academy for Rural Revitalization of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang A&F University, Li''an 311300, China |
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| Abstract: | Forestland tenure and financial incentives are the most important policy issue to sustainable forest resource management. The new wave of reform of collective forestland tenure (NRCFT) has been launched since 2003 and the governmental matching reform measures (MRMs) for the NRCFT have been introduced since 2009. The objective of these reforms is to enhance sustainable forest resource management in Chinese collective regions by encouraging rural households’ productive forest inputs. We use a unique dataset of 1778 sample households in 18 counties of nine provinces with six years and employ a fixed effects model with clustered standard errors. Our empirical results indicate that: 1) the NRCFT has increased households’ forestland area of different tenure types, and the effects of the MRMs on rural households’ labor input and production expenditures for forestry purposes are generally positive, especially household used forestland as collateral for a loan and afforestation or reafforestation subsidy and reform of Annual Allowance Cut (AAC) have significantly contributed to increase in the use of productive forest inputs; 2) the NRCFT and the MRMs have different impacts on the use of productive forest inputs for different tenure forests, and these reforms have caused the most significant changes in rural households’ production decision changes for household responsibility forestland; 3) both the NRCFT and the MRMs have significant effects on rural households’ rent-in and rent-out forestland; and 4) forestland fragmentations have caused additional labor and investment inputs for rural households’ forest resource management and protection. And finally, market drivers and household and village characteristics factors also affect households’ decisions for productive inputs for their managing forests. |
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| Keywords: | The reform collective forestland tenure Effect analysis Forestland Matching reform measures Production factor allocation China |
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