The impact of land transfer on peasant strati. cation -An analysis based on a survey of Jingshan county, Hubei province

CHEN Baifeng (陈柏峰)
School of Law, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law; Research Center for Rural China Governance, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Abstract:
Peasants’ motivation and purpose for transferring land vary from time to time. Based on a survey of 10 villages in
Jingshan county, Hubei province, this article finds that the specific forms of rural land transfer include active long
term transfer, passive long-term transfer and short-term transfer. Land transfer has an important impact on the
stratification of the peasantry. Present institutional arrangements for land ignore the legitimate interests of migrant
families and poor and weak villagers and therefore they hold different attitudes toward land tenure institutions than
middle peasants do. Based on the conclusions of an empirical analysis, this article puts forward a series of policy
recommendations aimed at protecting the land rights of poor and weak peasant households.
Key words:
land transfer, stratum, peasant stratification, land tenure institutions

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