An Agent-based Model of Farmland Transfer (Version 1.0.0) (1.0.0)

This is model that explores how a few farmers in a Chinese village, where all farmers are smallholders originally, reach optimal farming scale by transferring in farmland from other farmers in the context of urbanization and aging.

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The model is designed to simulate farmers’ behavior of transferring farmland in rural China. We create a world representing a village with heterogeneous farmers who can transfer in or out farmland. The farmers that transfer in land, in general large land holders, are exogenously chosen for the moment. The propensity a farmer transfers, in or out, farmland is determined by his age, degree of off-farm work.The amount of land that a farmer can transfers in is restricted by his optimal farming scale, whereas the amount of land that a farmer can transfers out is restricted by his survival farming scale. In addition, farmers are assumed to only transfer adjacent land in.

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