Realizing that frequent land reallocation and abusive land requisition has led to the insecurity of the land-use rights of farmers, the government has taken various action to promote land tenure security (Tao and Xu 2007).
As a result, the inhabitants are facing food insecurity, declining fertility of land and shrinkage of shifting cultivation cycle.
And, in many areas, they must overcome increasingly volatile agricultural markets, the growing insecurity of access to land, and the degradation of natural resources on which they depend.
As a consequence, the risk of land insecurity for firm owners was much higher than for those in the wage-earning sector.
This paper contributes to the literature on the issue of land rights insecurity in developing countries.
The authors test this hypothesis by exploiting variation in the intensity of land rights insecurity under the HRS across and within villages by using data from the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) household survey.3 By exploiting the source of variation, De La Rupelle et al. (2009) show that migration behavior varies with the contractual structure of land holdings.
It is this toxic mix of land tenure insecurity and a blind drive for productivity that has helped give rise to China's tainted fields.
Plagued by land conflict that has sparked some of the country's most brutal violence over the past decade, the once lush virgin rainforest is home to sprawling cocoa plantations and remains a tinderbox of land disputes and insecurity.
But they were soon resumed; America pushed out its own frontiers and took an expansionary view of its role in the world.One motive driving this expansion was the insecurity of settlers in a hostile land.
Mines cause household food insecurity through land denial and loss of livestock; health and hygiene problems due to lack of access to shelter, water and sanitation, and hardship due to the difficulties rehabilitating or accessing essential economic infrastructure.
