Conditions for Collective Land Use by Community-Based Organizations
Case Study of Community Farming Enterprises in Japan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12959820 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daisuke Takahashi (0000-0001-7105-4047, Takushoku University, corresponding author), Takeshi Fujie (Meiji University), Tetsuji Senda (Kyoto University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 209-209 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-12 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of the Commons (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1875-0281 • E-ISSN: 1875-0281 |
| Publisher | Ubiquity Press, Ltd. (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5334/ijc.1151 |
| OpenAlex | W4285030106 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 23 |
The small scale of farms and scattered farmland plots in Japanese agriculture have hindered efficient farmland utilization. We used the spatial anticommons problem as the theoretical grounding to study the conditions for collective land use by community farming enterprises. We achieved this by constructing large-scale community-level data, on community farming enterprises and community characteristics, for six prefectures in the Hokuriku and Kinki regions (12,028 rural communities). Then, using regression analysis, we examined the relationship between the collective use of farmland through collective farming enterprises and the variables related to community functions, controlling for the characteristics of rural communities and dummy variables for former municipalities. The results of the descriptive statistics and econometric analysis indicated that the level of farmland improvement projects and the scale of community functions, such as the number of local meetings, are positively associated with the collective use of farmland by community farming enterprises. These factors affecting collective actions are similar to those in the case of common pool resources in the existing literature. This finding suggests that a community-based self-governing mechanism can play an important role for the governance of underused resources, i.e., the tragedy of the anticommons, as in the case of the tragedy of the commons
Agriculture · Business · Common ownership · Common-pool resource · Commons · Community organization · Descriptive statistics · Econometric analysis · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Land tenure · Local community · Market economy · Microeconomics · Political science · Regional science · Scale (ratio · Tragedy of the commons · Land Rights and Reforms · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Rural development and sustainability
Symmetric Tragedies
The value-added of laboratory experiments for the study of institutions and common-pool resources
Social Capital, Human Capital and the Community Mechanism
Instrumental Variables and the Search for Identification
The role of formal and informal institutions in farmland consolidation
Small-scale European forestry, an anticommons
The tragedy of the commons’ by underuse
Bundle of Rights Reversed
Drivers of joint cropland management strategies in agri-food cooperatives
Farm mechanization, scale economies and polarization
Effects of land fragmentation on the governance of the commons
Multi-actor arrangements for farmland management in Eastern Spain
The Tragedy of the Anticommons
Heterogeneity, Group Size and Collective Action
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |