Reports
04.18.11
Reports
02.01.11
A Seventeen-Province Survey of Rural Land Rights in China
He Jianan
Landesa
China continues to boost economic development in the countryside by extending secure land tenure rights to its 200 million farming families, according to findings from a seventeen-province survey, published in the 2011 Chinese Academy of Social...
Reports
10.01.10
A Case Study on Large-Scale Forestland Acquisition in China
He Jianan
Landesa
Rural development and forest restoration have been key priorities for the Chinese government over the last decade, and indeed many countries in the world. To address these priorities, the Chinese government has aggressively promoted new investment—...
Reports
04.01.10
Who Owns Carbon in Rural China?
He Jianan
Landesa
Despite decades of rapid economic growth in China, rural areas remain largely undeveloped. Rural China is home to more than 195 million hectares of forestland—the equivalent of around 5 billion tons of carbon. Rights to forestland are either 1)...
Reports
10.01.07
The Impact of Regulatory Takings by the Chinese State on Rural Land Tenure and Property Rights
He Jianan
Landesa
With the realization of China’s rapid ecological deterioration, partly caused by irresponsible logging, the Chinese government has in recent years taken a series of drastic measures to improve forest coverage. One important approach was to declare...
Reports
10.01.07
The Dispute Resolution Process in Relation to Logging Permits in China
Landesa
This paper focuses on questions related to the granting of logging permits in China. The author finds the current system for the granting of logging permits in China to be lacking. In order to find a solution to this issue, the author reviews...
Reports
04.01.01
Women and Land Tenure in China: A Study of Women’s Land Rights in Dongfang County, Hainan Province
Landesa
This report discusses women’s rights to land in China. The report is based on field research conducted in January 2000 in the city of Dongfang in the Hainan Province. It finds that granting women in China legal rights to land is unlikely to...
Reports
02.01.00
The Joint Stock Share System in China’s Nanhai County
Landesa
Between 1979 and 1983, China made the dramatic transition from a socialist agriculture dominated by large collective farms to a more market-oriented agriculture dominated by small family farms. This report describes the experiment’s background in...