Land consolidation, rice production, and agricultural transformation

Evidence from household panel data for Vietnam

verfasst von

Manh Hung Do, Trung Thanh Nguyen, Ulrike Grote

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.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Umweltökonomik und Welthandel

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Economic Analysis and Policy

Band

77

Seiten

157-173

Anzahl der Seiten

17

ISSN

0313-5926

Publikationsdatum

03.2023

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Volkswirtschaftslehre und Ökonometrie, Volkswirtschaftslehre, Ökonometrie und Finanzen (sonstige)

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 1 – Keine Armut

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2022.11.010 (Zugang: Geschlossen)