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Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 157-173 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Economic Analysis and Policy |
Volume | 77 |
Early online date | 15 Nov 2022 |
Publication status | Published - Mar 2023 |
Abstract
Land consolidation is important to increase the economies of scale in farming, and understanding its determinants and effects is useful for policy-makers to support rural transformation. In this paper, we examine the factors determining the voluntary participation of farm households in land consolidation and investigate its impacts on crop production costs, rural poverty, and rural transformation. Our results show that land consolidation is driven by farming efficiency. It significantly decreases land preparation and harvest costs, increases farm income, and reduces poverty. We conclude that land consolidation should be promoted to facilitate the redistribution of farm land from farmers who want to leave agriculture to those who continue to work in agriculture. The redistribution of farmland promotes agricultural transformation by reallocating labor from farm to non-farm sectors.
Keywords
- Farm income, Land fragmentation, Non-farm income, Poverty reduction, Rural transformation, Simultaneous regression
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)
- Economics and Econometrics
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
Sustainable Development Goals
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In: Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 77, 03.2023, p. 157-173.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Land consolidation, rice production, and agricultural transformation
T2 - Evidence from household panel data for Vietnam
AU - Do, Manh Hung
AU - Nguyen, Trung Thanh
AU - Grote, Ulrike
N1 - Funding Information: We would like to thank the respondents from the surveyed provinces for their kind support and cooperation. We highly acknowledge the financial support of the German Research Foundation ( DFG – FOR/756 ) for the TVSEP project and appreciate the efforts of our colleagues at the Leibniz University Hannover for data collection and cleaning. Manh Hung Do would like to thank the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for financial assistance. We gratefully acknowledge the constructive comments and suggestions from Gokul Prasad Paudel and the other participants of the Conference “Rural Economic Transformation: Pathways to Inclusive and Sustainable Prosperity in Post-COVID-19 Asia” organized by the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) on November 17–19, 2021. We are also grateful to the constructive comments from the Editor and anonymous reviewers.
PY - 2023/3
Y1 - 2023/3
N2 - Land consolidation is important to increase the economies of scale in farming, and understanding its determinants and effects is useful for policy-makers to support rural transformation. In this paper, we examine the factors determining the voluntary participation of farm households in land consolidation and investigate its impacts on crop production costs, rural poverty, and rural transformation. Our results show that land consolidation is driven by farming efficiency. It significantly decreases land preparation and harvest costs, increases farm income, and reduces poverty. We conclude that land consolidation should be promoted to facilitate the redistribution of farm land from farmers who want to leave agriculture to those who continue to work in agriculture. The redistribution of farmland promotes agricultural transformation by reallocating labor from farm to non-farm sectors.
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KW - Farm income
KW - Land fragmentation
KW - Non-farm income
KW - Poverty reduction
KW - Rural transformation
KW - Simultaneous regression
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JO - Economic Analysis and Policy
JF - Economic Analysis and Policy
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