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Govt Targets Land Pollution to Ensure Food Security

Morgan Figuers — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:31:16 +0000

The Ministry of Environmental Protection is strengthening measures to hold polluting companies accountable for land pollution amid increasing public health hazards triggered by soil pollution. They will be held responsible for land pollution, regardless of any change in their management structure, including restructuring, merger or dissolution.
According to the directive, “the company which inherits the debts and rights (of the polluter) should shoulder the responsibility” for providing financial assistance to restore the productivity of polluted land.
Land pollution is an increasing concern, as it poses a threat to food security. “Land pollution has directly led to declining food quality,” Sun Tiehang, an ecologist and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told the Guangzhou-based Nanfang Daily.

China Issues New Land Management Statute

Liu Yong — Fri, 30 May 2008 09:55:40 +0000

From Xinhua:

China has published a statute, “Methods for Punishing Violations of Regulations on Land Management“, that replaces the “Provisional Methods for Punishing Violations of Regulations on Land Management” as of June 1.
The document was recently issued jointly by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the Ministry of Supervision (MOS), the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MHRSS) and the Ministry of Land Resources (MLR).
The new statute is the latest indication that the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the State Council have always given priority to the issue of land use. It follows several important measures taken by the authorities to maintain order in land management.

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New policy tackles land management bottleneck

Sophie Beach — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 19:55:55 +0000

Caijing magazine reports on the failures of the new land management law to protect farmers’ interests during the commercial development of farmland. Some reports say that 200 million farmers have been displaced as local governments sell farmland for private development. Despite the new legal requirements that farmers be compensated for repossessed land, in practice the governments sell the land for tens or hundreds of times the compensation price. According to Caijing, “Experts say that in this situation, farmers can only get 5-10 percent of the value of land transfers. The government and real estate developers pocket the lion’s share. In many places, incomes from land transfers can amount to 70-80 percent of local revenues. ” An English translation of the article is here.

Farmers have begun to launch protests and petitions against the unfair confiscation of their land by local governments, as this earlier Washington Post article reports. Commercial development of farmland is also causing a shortage of arable land and depriving farmers of their income. See the Asia Times article from July here.

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