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Grassland transfer is an important management tool for the development of animal husbandry, yet the factors affecting herdsmen’s grassland transfer activity have seldom been investigated. This study analyzes the factors affecting grassland transfer in Hulunbuir and Xilingol, Inner Mongolia, China, using a multinomial logistic regression model. The results suggest that the educational level of the head of the household, their position as a leader of the village, the form of grassland transfer contract, distance from village to town, and height of forage grass have significant effects on the practice of grassland transfer. The quantity of livestock, grassland area per capita, income from animal husbandry as a proportion of total household income, and period of contract for grassland transfer are the main factors affecting grassland inflow, while the number of laborers has a great influence on grassland outflow. As a result, households actively engaged in livestock management tend to borrow more grassland, while households facing labor shortages tend to lend out their grasslands, thereby entailing adjustments to grassland area based on the household management situation. The results also imply that while these land transfers contribute to balancing livestock and grass on grasslands, transfer contracts and human resources must be further developed. Discipline: Agricultural economics Additional key words: livestock, multinomial logit model, grassland inflow, grassland outflow This paper reports the results obtained by the research projects “National Social Science Foundation (15XMZ094)” (2015-2018) and “Development of risk-reducing livestock farming systems coping with extreme weather events in Northeast Asia” (2011-2015). *Corresponding author: e-mail oniki_shunji@affrc.go.jp Received 8 March 2016; accepted 25 August 2016. Introduction As humankind’s most precious natural resource since ancient times, land is the material basis of human survival; for herdsmen, grassland is the source of their survival and security in life (Bao 2011). Grassland transfer is a basic tool for the development of animal husbandry, while also being one of the ways of solving the problem of decentralized and extensive production (Yu et al. 2011). At the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s, the practice of lending and renting grassland appeared in Inner Mongolia. The practice of herdsmen’s grassland transfer did not appear until the mid to late 1990s. Grassland transfer is the exchange of grassland utilization rights under the situation of constant contract land ownership in China.

Factors Affecting Herdsmen’s Grassland Transfer in Inner Mongolia, China