A Study on Accounting for Suburban Agricultural Land Rent in a Chinese Context Based on Agricultural Ecological Value and Landscape Value

Keqiang Wang1,2, Jianglin Lu3,*, Hongmei Liu4, Xin Fan5, Lina Zhang6and Silu Zhang2

Abstract

Agricultural land protection is vital for the realization of national food security and anecological civilization. From the perspective of agricultural ecological value and landscape value,perfecting the theory of agricultural land rent is beneficial to the construction of an ecologicalcivilization. Based on Marx’s land rent theory of agricultural production, the analytical frameworkof the agricultural decision support systems (DSS) was constructed; then, the agricultural landrent in suburbs was theoretically accounted for via a numerical example, and its realization ruleswere simulated according to the conditions of China (i.e., the specific solutions in force). Someinteresting conclusions were found: (1) Agricultural production in suburbs involves both naturalreproduction and social reproduction. (2) Agricultural land rent should include production land rent,ecological land rent, and landscape land rent. (3) The promotion of an ecological civilization and thedevelopment of the economy and society will lead to an increase in the comprehensive coefficient ofagricultural land rent. (4) With the development of the economy, ecological land rent and landscapeland rent should be gradually charged from zero payment to full payment. Based on these conclusions,five corresponding policy implications are proposed to improve the land profit of agricultural landowners to promote agricultural production, food security, and an ecological civilization.

Keywords

suburban agricultural production; agricultural land rent; agricultural ecological value;agricultural landscape value; sustainable land uses; decision support systems

https://doi.org/10.3390/land12122138