Why Have China’s Poverty Eradication Policy Resulted in the Decline of Arable Land in Poverty-Stricken Areas?
Arable land resources are the basic livelihood security for people in poverty-stricken areas, and poor people are prone to uncontrolled expansion of arable land and exogenous ecological damage to secure their livelihoods. To avoid this vicious cycle, China’s poverty eradication policy requires great...
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| author | Rong Ran Lei Hua Tingrou Li Yejing Chen Junfu Xiao |
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| description | Arable land resources are the basic livelihood security for people in poverty-stricken areas, and poor people are prone to uncontrolled expansion of arable land and exogenous ecological damage to secure their livelihoods. To avoid this vicious cycle, China’s poverty eradication policy requires greater management and restoration of arable land in poverty-stricken areas, but it is unknown what impacts it may bring. Therefore, this study examines the impact of policy implementation on arable land by the Difference-in-Differences (DID) model and uses the mediating and moderating models to test the policy’s mechanism on arable land. The results reveal that the policy significantly reduces the arable land, and the results remain robust, controlling for potential endogeneity variables and robustness tests. What’s more, the results of the mediating and moderating effect models indicate that the reduction of arable land is mainly due to the increase of unit yield, guiding the local people to abandon degraded land and to carry out ecological restoration, thus reducing the arable land area and achieving sustainable development. Finally, recommendations are proposed from the perspective of human-land coordination. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8a1c43a2631e45b3afff2d333db0f90e2023-11-19T17:03:33ZengMDPI AGLand2073-445X2023-09-011210185610.3390/land12101856Why Have China’s Poverty Eradication Policy Resulted in the Decline of Arable Land in Poverty-Stricken Areas?Rong Ran0Lei Hua1Tingrou Li2Yejing Chen3Junfu Xiao4School of Public Policy and Administration, Chongqing University, Shapingba District, Chongqing 400044, ChinaSchool of Public Policy and Administration, Chongqing University, Shapingba District, Chongqing 400044, ChinaSchool of Public Policy and Administration, Chongqing University, Shapingba District, Chongqing 400044, ChinaSchool of Public Policy and Administration, Chongqing University, Shapingba District, Chongqing 400044, ChinaSchool of Economics and Business Administration, Chongqing University, Shapingba District, Chongqing 400044, ChinaArable land resources are the basic livelihood security for people in poverty-stricken areas, and poor people are prone to uncontrolled expansion of arable land and exogenous ecological damage to secure their livelihoods. To avoid this vicious cycle, China’s poverty eradication policy requires greater management and restoration of arable land in poverty-stricken areas, but it is unknown what impacts it may bring. Therefore, this study examines the impact of policy implementation on arable land by the Difference-in-Differences (DID) model and uses the mediating and moderating models to test the policy’s mechanism on arable land. The results reveal that the policy significantly reduces the arable land, and the results remain robust, controlling for potential endogeneity variables and robustness tests. What’s more, the results of the mediating and moderating effect models indicate that the reduction of arable land is mainly due to the increase of unit yield, guiding the local people to abandon degraded land and to carry out ecological restoration, thus reducing the arable land area and achieving sustainable development. Finally, recommendations are proposed from the perspective of human-land coordination.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12/10/1856arable landChina’s poverty eradication policypoverty-stricken areasdifference-in-differences |
| spellingShingle | Rong Ran Lei Hua Tingrou Li Yejing Chen Junfu Xiao Why Have China’s Poverty Eradication Policy Resulted in the Decline of Arable Land in Poverty-Stricken Areas? Land arable land China’s poverty eradication policy poverty-stricken areas difference-in-differences |
| title | Why Have China’s Poverty Eradication Policy Resulted in the Decline of Arable Land in Poverty-Stricken Areas? |
| title_full | Why Have China’s Poverty Eradication Policy Resulted in the Decline of Arable Land in Poverty-Stricken Areas? |
| title_fullStr | Why Have China’s Poverty Eradication Policy Resulted in the Decline of Arable Land in Poverty-Stricken Areas? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Why Have China’s Poverty Eradication Policy Resulted in the Decline of Arable Land in Poverty-Stricken Areas? |
| title_short | Why Have China’s Poverty Eradication Policy Resulted in the Decline of Arable Land in Poverty-Stricken Areas? |
| title_sort | why have china s poverty eradication policy resulted in the decline of arable land in poverty stricken areas |
| topic | arable land China’s poverty eradication policy poverty-stricken areas difference-in-differences |
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