Mapping out the plotlines : establishing an effective and well-functioning farmland registration system in China
Xiaohui Wu & Keliang Zhu
Chinaas history of the past three decades demonstrates that secure land tenure rights of farmers are clearly an important component of economic development generally, and rural development specifically. The wise application of the law to the reform of land tenure rules and systems remains among the most widely relevant and highly leveraged means of improving the lives of the rural population. The paper begins with the task of laying out the current facts concerning China's efforts to set up a nationwide farmland registration system. It summarizes much of the farmland registration pilot experience in China, in the hope that the cumulative experience and policy recommendations discussed in this paper will provide help and guidance for China in identifying what is needed, and what should be done, to establish a nationwide, effective land registration system over the coming years. One of the most important messages to take away from this paper is that that there are practical, legal-system ways, sometimes rather new and innovative measures, to achieve that goal. This includes such important factors as political leadership, legislation, administrative planning and system design, financial resource mobilization, access to international comparative experience, as well as public participation, women's empowerment and education on farmland registration.
Event: Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2013
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