Collective Forest Tenure Arrangement,Right Realization And Farmers' Forestry Benefits

Launched a pilot project in 2003,the new round of collective forest tenure reform started officially in 2008,is considered to be another great reform of China's rural management system after the household contract responsibility system.The collective forest tenure reform implemented the contracting and management right of forestland and forest ownership of farmers.Relying on this basis,it made a wide range of arrangements for forest reform scheme,demarcation of certification,allowing flexibility management,implementing the disposal right,ensuring the income right and other aspects.Many research results suggest that the main reform has achieved great success,entering the period of supporting reform.The goal of the collective forest tenure reform is resource development,growth of farmers' income,good ecology,harmonious forest region,illustrating that farmer interest is one of the key points in the reform.Therefore,this paper focuses on the interests of farmers,especially the study on forest benefit.The three representative provinces of Liaoning,Jiangxi and Yunnan are selected as samples,making further research on farmers involved in forest benefit.In this paper,based on the review for related achievements of domestic and foreign research on forest tenure reform,the farmers involved in forest benefit is defined as three aspects:farmerforestry rights and interests,farmerforestry property and farmer policy cognition.This paper has carried out the following research works.Firstly,This paper analyzes the inherent relationship and mechanism of collective forest tenure reform with farmers' forestry rights and interests,capacity for forestry rights and farmers' policy cognition.Secondly,the farmer forestry income is divided into farmer forestry business income,forestry wage income,forestry transfer income and forestry property income,using the seeming unrelated regression procedures(SUR)to analyze the change of farmer various forestry income in 2010 and 2014.The results show that the forestry income of farmers has increased greatly,which mainly results from the increase of forestry operating income and forestry transfer income.The policies of forestry cooperative organizations and mortgage impact greatly on Farmers' forestry income.Thirdly,through analysis,the property rights,management mode and resource endowment are considered to be influence factors of farmers'forestry production(input)behaviors.And the Heckman two-stage selection model is used to analyze the influencing factors of farmer s forestry production(input)behavior.The conclusions are:the stability of property rights,management modle.forest land area and household non-farm employment proportion are significant effects on Farmers' production(input)behavior decision.Among farmers with forest input,resource endowment is a significant effect on there labor input,and all the property rights,management modle.resause endowment are significant effects on there incapital input.Fourthly,farmers' cognition on the forestry tenure reform is analysed.The entropy method and fuzzy evaluation are used to evaluate degree of farmer satisfaction for the main reform and various supporting reform policies.The conclusions are:farmers have higher satisfaction with main reform and lower satisfaction with supporting reform.Fifthly,pointing at the discovered problems in the analysis,the policy recommendations are put forward from two aspects,policy direction selections and path selections.