TY - JOUR
T1 - Management adaptation to flood in Guangdong Province in China: Do property rights Matter?
AU - Thennakoon, Jayanthi
AU - Findlay, Christopher
AU - Huang, Jikun
AU - Wang, Jinxia
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Improving land rights in China is often considered as an important factor that facilitates farmers’ invest-
ments in agriculture. However, whether securing land rights is important for farmers’ adaptation to
changing climate or not has not been addressed in the literature, particularly with respect to manage-
ment decisions. This paper examines the relationship between land tenure types and farmer adaptation
through management decisions in response to extreme weather events in Guangdong Province in China.
Based on a household survey of rice farmers, our results show that compared to a normal year with minor
weather events farmers with contracted land are more likely to implement adaptation measures in
response to extreme weather events than those who have rented their land from the collective and from
other farmers. The results suggest that farmers’ adaptive behaviour in response to extreme weather
events is significantly different from their day-to-day adaptation to ongoing changes in climate.
Farmers’ adaptive capacity is also positively influenced by age, the public provision of information, by
the presence of social capital, and by plot quality. The results of this study highlight the importance of
properly defined land rights for the likelihood of adaptation, and thereby increasing agricultural produc-
tivity and ensuring food security in the context of a changing climat
AB - Improving land rights in China is often considered as an important factor that facilitates farmers’ invest-
ments in agriculture. However, whether securing land rights is important for farmers’ adaptation to
changing climate or not has not been addressed in the literature, particularly with respect to manage-
ment decisions. This paper examines the relationship between land tenure types and farmer adaptation
through management decisions in response to extreme weather events in Guangdong Province in China.
Based on a household survey of rice farmers, our results show that compared to a normal year with minor
weather events farmers with contracted land are more likely to implement adaptation measures in
response to extreme weather events than those who have rented their land from the collective and from
other farmers. The results suggest that farmers’ adaptive behaviour in response to extreme weather
events is significantly different from their day-to-day adaptation to ongoing changes in climate.
Farmers’ adaptive capacity is also positively influenced by age, the public provision of information, by
the presence of social capital, and by plot quality. The results of this study highlight the importance of
properly defined land rights for the likelihood of adaptation, and thereby increasing agricultural produc-
tivity and ensuring food security in the context of a changing climat
U2 - 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104767
DO - 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104767
M3 - Article
SN - 1873-5991
VL - 127
SP - 1
EP - 9
JO - World Development
JF - World Development
ER -