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Impact of Farmland Abandonment on Soil Conservation
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Impact of Farmland Abandonment on Soil Conservation

A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil-Sediment-Water Systems".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 21 June 2024 | Viewed by 1047

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Marina Cabral Pinto

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Department of Geosciences, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Interests: soils; water; exposure and health
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Dr. Munesh Kumar

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Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, HNB Garhwal University, Srinagar Garhwal, Uttarakhand 249 161, India
Interests: soils, exposure and helth; carbon sequestration
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Farmland Abandonment is an increasingly global land cover change phenomenon with major impacts on the environment and human well-being. Abandonment of farmland can be a more complex transition of land change, including the cessation of agricultural activities to non-agricultural land use, such as forestry, residential construction, and tourism.  Such processes are likely to reduce the primary productivity of desirable plant species or crops, as well as to cause the succession or invasion of undesirable vegetation species. Land abandonment promotes land degradation processes. The goal of this Special Issue is to demonstrate the complexities of the topic of land abandonment while emphasizing the soil conservation implications.

Articles or reviews that discuss the factors that affect agricultural abandonment and the subsequent restoration research are appreciated.  We highly encourage the submission of integrative studies on agricultural land abandonment, which involve different techniques, such as remotely-sensed observations, Mapping.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.

Dr. Marina Cabral Pinto
Dr. Munesh Kumar
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Keywords

  • drivers
  • land abandonment
  • decrease land use intensity
  • soil conservation
  • carbon sequestration

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Does Non-Farm Employment Promote Farmland Abandonment of Resettled Households? Evidence from Shaanxi, China
by Jingjing Sun, Jie Li and Yue Cui
Land 2024, 13(2), 129; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/land13020129 - 24 Jan 2024
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The de-agrarianisation of the labor force in the poverty alleviation resettlement (PAR) inevitably influences households’ farmland management and farmland abandonment in the relocated areas. Drawing on survey data from 1079 households in Shaanxi, China, this study uses the Heckman two-stage model to empirically [...] Read more.
The de-agrarianisation of the labor force in the poverty alleviation resettlement (PAR) inevitably influences households’ farmland management and farmland abandonment in the relocated areas. Drawing on survey data from 1079 households in Shaanxi, China, this study uses the Heckman two-stage model to empirically examine the relationship between non-farm employment and farmland abandonment in relocated areas. Additionally, it explores heterogeneity by considering the quantity and spatial distribution of non-farm employment, as well as the moderating effect of the withdrawal of rural homesteads (WRH). The results show that: (1) non-farm employment significantly promotes both behavioral and scale of farmland abandonment, with the magnitude of this impact varying based on the quantity of non-farm employment; (2) Heterogeneity analyses show that areas with non-farm employment exert a noteworthy positive effect on farmland abandonment. On average, farmers engaged in non-farm employment outside the county (NEO) exhibit a higher marginal effect on both behavioral and scale aspects of farmland abandonment compared to those engaged in non-farm employment within the county (NEI). Furthermore, only when the number of NEI reaches 3 does the probability and scale of farmland abandonment surpass those of NEO; (3) Mechanism analysis sheds light on the role of WRH, indicating that the cultivation of land in WRH weakens the promotion of farmland abandonment by non-farm employment, particularly in the NEI group. Conversely, the duration of WRH strengthens the contributions of non-farm employment to farmland abandonment, and this effect is concentrated in the NEO group. These findings underscore the importance of actively cultivating and introducing new types of agricultural management entities, promoting the moderate-scale operation of farmland, and encouraging the recultivation of withdrawn rural homesteads as strategies to curb farmland abandonment. Full article
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