tenure security, especially issuance of land documents, would affect people’s behavior in China’s rural land rental market …. The econometric analysis shows that possession of documents and fewer major land reallocations would encourage households … to engage in non-kin land renting, and the effect of land right documents is stronger in 2008 than in 2000. …

Constrained access to land is increasingly recognized as a problem impeding rural household welfare in densely … land access and food security. We find that a 10% increase in operated land size would increase total cereal consumption … and home produced food consumption by 0.8% and 2.0%, respectively. We also find that land rental is the dominant mechanism …

In 1999 the Canadian Federal government passed the First Nations Land Management Act, ratifying the Framework Agreement … on First Nation Land Management signed by the government and 14 original signatory First Nations in 1996. This Agreement … allows First Nations to opt out of the 34 land code provisions of the Indian Act and develop individual land codes, and has …

We examine how the system of “federalism, Chinese style” functions in the context of land allocation. China’s land laws … give provision of land a central role in local officials’ growth promotion strategies. Requisitions of farmland by local … over the pace of urban land expansion by enacting regulations limiting conversion of rural land to urban uses. We derive …

Among multiple slippage effects potentially generated in voluntary land retirement programs, this study attempts to … identify one unique source of slippage. Specifically, I examine slippage caused by within-a-farm land conversion from … uncultivated land to cropland. With the U.S. Agricultural Census farm-level longitudinal data on land use and enrollment in the …

share of irrigated land on cropping intensity. …

endogenous spatial interactions among conservation easements and government protected land, independent of spatially correlated … likelihood of subsequent easements on neighboring land. Government-protected land appears to have little effect on the location …

that land allocation decision among grains and oil-seeds are in large determined by output prices for the crops. The crops … are wheat, barley, oats, corn, rye, soybeans, rapeseed, and sunflower. In this chapter, a land allocation model developed …-seeds significantly affect land allocation among these crops and by what magnitudes. We look at the effect of the relative export price …