Enabling governance: Practical logic of effective governance of land fragmentation: Based on the typical case analysis of three counties

Effective control of land fragmentation is a necessary part of promoting agricultural modernization and implementing food security strategies. Based on the perspective of "enabling governance", an analytical framework of "subject-mechanism-path" was constructed to examine the land fragmentation governance practices in three counties and explain the practical logic of effective land fragmentation governance. The findings were as follows: (1) The grass-roots government was the enabling body, providing various governance elements for land fragmentation management. (2) The grass-roots government empowered village communities by institution, resource and organization, and enhance the collective capacity of village communities. (3) Under the empowerment of the grass-roots government, multiple subjects took the village community collective as the center to form a land fragmentation governance structure follow the principle of "village community overall planning-farmer participation-management subject undertaking", and promoted the orderly development of land fragmentation governance. The paper presented the operation process and practical logic of land fragmentation effective management, and provided practical enlightenment for land fragmentation management.