LDPI Working Paper 18. Upheaval in Chinese Villages. A Case Study of Rural Land Expropriation for 바카라 사이트淟arge-Scale바카라 사이트� Commercial Farming in Rural China
Abstract
Tens of millions of Chinese peasants are in the process of being uprooted from their agricultural land and farmhouses, leaving them in the short run with few means to sustain their families. This study examines a very recent campaign in China to consolidate land for large-scale commercial farming, analyzing three major actors, namely agribusiness entrepreneurs, local government officials, and peasants. This example of very large-scale rural land grabbing is tightly connected to the new stateled campaign of 바카라 사이트淐onstructing a Socialist New Countryside.바카라 사이트� By comparing two models of land consolidation, defined by the author as 바카라 사이트渞eversible바카라 사이트� and 바카라 사이트渋rreversible,바카라 사이트� she argues that the top-down implementation of the campaign favors the 바카라 사이트渋rreversible바카라 사이트� model, thus causing many unintended consequences, including forced land dispossession, a rise in agrarian capitalist land accumulation, and increased hardships on vast numbers of peasants who have now lost much of their autonomy, while becoming precarious wage laborers.
Citation
Liu, K. LDPI Working Paper 18. Upheaval in Chinese Villages. A Case Study of Rural Land Expropriation for “Large-Scale” Commercial Farming in Rural China. The Land Deal Politics Initiative, (2013) 25 pp.
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