China's food security has increasingly been one worldwide concern. And, most researchers argue that land transfer further aggravates the problem of non-grain in rural China. We theoretically pursue the the internal mechanism of the effects of land rental on the grain production and then employ...

Land fragmentation is regarded as obstacle to agricultural productivity and remains serious in rural China. Many researchers suggest that developing land rental markets is one effective approach to land defragmentation, but few papers empirically confirm it. This paper employs Chinese provincial...

Using household-level data collected from three provinces in China, this paper investigates the links between land rentals conducted by acquaintances and land fragmentation. The econometric results indicate that the land rentals between acquaintances and those between non-acquaintances have...