Cultivated land planting structure is directly related to China’s food security. The Central Rural Work Conference in 2021 pointed out that ensure security, attention should be paid the adjustment of structure. Therefore, it necessary explore whether tenure security has an impact on farmers’ cultivated non-grain behavior. Based micro survey data 550 farmers Guanzhong Plain, this paper explores ...

Land tenure and carbon rights constitute critical issues to take into account in achieving emission reductions, ensuring transparent benefit sharing and determining non-permanence (or non-compliance) liabilities in the context of REDD+ strategies and projects. This is so because tenure systems influence who becomes involved in efforts to avoid deforestation and improve forest management, and th...

Blackman et al. (1) assess the forest cover impacts of providing indigenous Peruvian communities with formal title to land they have long inhabited. We applaud the authors’ use of high-quality forest change data and rigorous causal methods; both are critical gaps in the land tenure and forest change literature (2). Their findings are encouraging, especially given Peru’s globally important biodi...

Land tenure inequity is a major social problem in developing nations worldwide. In societies, where land is a commodity, inequities in land tenure are associated with gaps in income distribution, poverty and biodiversity loss. A common pattern of land tenure inequities through the history of civilization has been the formation of latifundia [Zhuāngyuán in chinese], i.e., a pattern where land ow...

Abstract In this paper, we use a discrete choice experiment conducted among pastoralists in four different semi-arid counties Kenya characterized by land tenure regimes to analyze how make tradeoffs between security and grazing flexibility – the so-called pastoralist paradox. Results show that there is one group of respondents who are desperate for change seem prefer either or private title dee...

Humans have a long history of activity in Mediterranean Basin landscapes. Spatial heterogeneity in these landscapes hinders our understanding about the impacts of changes in human activity on ecological processes, such as wildfire. The use of spatially-explicit models that simulate processes at fine scales should aid the investigation of spatial patterns at the broader, landscape scale. Here, w...

This paper shows how property rights insecurity can result in the reproduction of local inequalities because of social matching in assets markets. A principal-agent framework is used to model the landlord’s decision to rent when he takes into account the risk of losing the land and contract enforcement is decreasing in social distance with his tenant. These effects are quantified for the case o...

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is proposed as a necessity, as the agricultural sector will need to adapt to resist future climatic change, to which high emissions from the sector contribute significantly. This study, which is an exploratory case study based on qualitative interviews and field observations, investigates the barriers to making a CSA-adjustment in maize production among Maya comm...