Rural human settlement environment, non-agricultural transfer of labour and arable land abandonment in China.

ABSTRACT: The arable land abandonment caused by the large-scale non-agricultural transfer of labour has attracted substantial attention from all walks of life in China. Promoting improvement in human settlement environment can accelerate the construction of infrastructure, ameliorate grassroots organization and enhance management capacities while simultaneously decelerating agricultural production costs. High level of human settlement environment can also attract the labour force to return, stimulate the vitality of rural elements and endogenous powers. Then, can improving rural human settlement environment alleviate the phenomenon of arable land abandonment caused by non-agricultural labour transfer? In order to answer this question, based on the micro-survey data of 1325 households in 5 provinces

SUBMITTER: Zheng X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11401077 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature