Does land management scale influence farmers' utilization of straw resources? Empirical evidence from rural China

Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 112, P. 107820 - 107820

Published: Jan. 16, 2025

Language: Английский

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The synergistic effects of microcredit access and agricultural technology adoption on maize farmer’s income in Kenya

PLoS ONE, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 20(1), P. e0316014 - e0316014

Published: Jan. 6, 2025

Addressing global food security demands urgent improvement in agricultural productivity, particularly developing economies where market imperfections are perverse and resource constraints prevail. While microcredit is widely acknowledged as a tool for economic empowerment, its role facilitating technology adoption improving incomes remains underexplored. This study examines the synergistic effects of access on maize farmers Kenya. Using household-level data, we employ an endogenous switching regression framework to control possible endogeneity microcredit. Our findings shows that positively influences advanced technologies. Key determinants, including marital status, use fertilizer application, extension services, cooperative membership, identified significant determinants access. Notably, Average Treatment Effect Treated (ATT) indicates 40.52% increase income among who microcredit, mainly driven by timely high-quality seeds, improved technologies, enhanced inputs. These results highlight microcredit’s promoting allocative efficiency enhancing Total Factor Productivity (TFP) within systems. Robustness checks, propensity score matching sensitivity analyses, corroborate these findings. The recommends implementation targeted financial policies educational initiatives meant promote credit access, encourage savings, literacy, credit-constrained households. Integrating measures could strengthen rural markets drive sustainable development across regions.

Language: Английский

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How Can Farmers’ Green Production Behavior Be Promoted? A Literature Review of Drivers and Incentives for Behavioral Change

Agriculture, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(7), P. 744 - 744

Published: March 31, 2025

The promotion of farmers’ green production behavior (GPB) to accelerate agricultural development and food system transformation is a popular issue worldwide. Based on the representative literature from 2015 October 2024, this study reviews connotation stage characteristics GPB. current research focuses primarily primary industry, particularly agriculture, which not in line with global trend rural development; thus, it seems necessary reiterate connotation. driving factors GPB are discussed at individual, household, external levels, relationships effects each group reviewed; future should re-examine formation mechanism perspective industry integration upgrading. This paper refers practices major economies worldwide summarizes policy implications concerning A multiagent incentive constructed perspectives government-led, market-oriented, social participation. Finally, based evolving trends agriculture development, three potential directions proposed as follows: (i) broadening scope integration; (ii) empowering through digital intelligence; (iii) increasing security. review beneficial for better understanding promoting globally.

Language: Английский

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How Does Information Acquisition Ability Affect Farmers’ Green Production Behaviors: Evidence from Chinese Apple Growers

Agriculture, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(5), P. 680 - 680

Published: April 26, 2024

Green production is crucial in promoting sustainable agricultural practices, ensuring food safety, and protecting the rural ecological environment. Farmers, as main decision makers of production, their green behaviors (GPBs), directly determine process development. Based on survey data 656 apple growers Shaanxi Gansu provinces 2022, this paper uses a graded response model to measure information acquisition ability (IAA) farmers constructs an ordered Logit empirically explore influence mechanisms IAA, benefit cognition (GBC), new technology learning attitude (NTLA) farmers’ GPBs. The results show following: (1) IAA has significantly positive impact adoption GPBs by farmers, with high are more conscious adopt technologies; (2) affecting GPBs, GBC plays mediating role; (3) NTLAs have moderating effect GPB adoption; (4) there generational, educational regional differences Policy should improve facilities, strengthen promotion training, awareness level, formulate relevant policies mobilize enthusiasm for technologies.

Language: Английский

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The Impact of Digital Literacy on Farmers’ Green Production Behavior: Mediating Effects Based on Ecological Cognition

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(17), P. 7507 - 7507

Published: Aug. 30, 2024

Farmers’ green production behavior is one of the main determinants sustainability agricultural economy. In this study, Ordered Logit, OLS, and 2SLS models were conducted to evaluate impact digital literacy on farmers’ behavior. On basis, Propensity Score Matching (PSM) method was deal with endogeneity bias that may result from sample self-selection problem. We also adopt mediation effect model test mediating mechanism ecological cognition between The results showed three different types significantly improved found by 19.87%, 15.92%, 24.16% through learning, social, transaction literacy. Meanwhile, improves increasing cognition. demonstrate Therefore, policies increase among farmers should be further promote

Language: Английский

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Spatio-temporal pattern assessment of China’s environmental performance and its spatial drivers: evidence from city-level data over 2003–2019

Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 31(10), P. 15223 - 15256

Published: Jan. 30, 2024

Language: Английский

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Impact of Digital Literacy on Farmers’ Adoption Behaviors of Green Production Technologies

Agriculture, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(3), P. 303 - 303

Published: Jan. 30, 2025

The application of digital technology offers new opportunities to promote the green transformation and upgrading agriculture. Farmers’ literacy, as a critical link between agricultural development, significantly influences their production decisions. Whether literacy serves an enabling factor driving farmers’ adoption technologies warrants further exploration. This paper uses entropy method measure levels employs Probit model for empirical analysis survey data from 643 farmers in Shandong Shaanxi provinces, examining how technologies. baseline regression result indicates that can increase A mechanism reveals enhanced promotes through three pathways: enhancing risk perception, expanding social capital, strengthening effectiveness promotion. Heterogeneity demonstrates improved enhances four technologies—water-saving irrigation, pest control, pollution-free pesticide, straw return fields—and exerts stronger impact on large-scale middle-generation farmers. Accordingly, this study suggests improving village infrastructure, comprehensively, formulating differentiated extension policies.

Language: Английский

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Strategy choice for agricultural green transformation in China from system dynamics perspective

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 9

Published: March 26, 2025

China faces multiple pressures on productivity enhancement, ecological protection and livelihood improvement, how to reconcile these objectives is an important consideration in the choice of strategies for agricultural green development. In this study, we try propose a comprehensive approach consider development from system dynamics perspective, which aims identify synergies trade-offs among under different scenarios National Pilot Zones Green Development Agriculture China, Xuzhou City Nanping are selected as two target areas. The research demonstrates that modeling can effectively facilitate strategic choices decision-makers. There upward trends terms improvement index, gross food production, farmers’ income pilot zones, achieve overall synergy before 2030, although trade-off relationship between production environmental protection. Furthermore, transformation index based could guide choices. economically prosperous zones has leading level transition scenario (reaching 83.76 surpassing other scenarios), shows greater potential prioritize high-quality Meanwhile, business-as-usual less-developed city highest 97.61 indicating need supportive policies maintain process. brief, decisions should be structural characteristics goals system, with emphasis both short-term progress long-term trends.

Language: Английский

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Influence of Information Literacy on Farmers’ Green Production Technology Adoption Behavior: The Moderating Role of Risk Attitude

Agriculture, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(7), P. 701 - 701

Published: March 26, 2025

Green production technology is a critical component of contemporary agricultural development, playing pivotal role in the promotion sustainable practices. Information literacy basic ability for farmers to engage production, including information awareness, knowledge, and ability. In order investigate impact on farmers’ green adoption behavior, this paper constructs indicators using factor analysis, based survey data from 1316 farming households Shanxi Hebei provinces, empirically analyzed behavior moderating effect risk attitude Heckman model model, respectively. The empirical evidence indicates following: (1) can significantly contribute decisions degree technologies. (2) has significant all five (3) results heterogeneity analysis indicate that coefficient technologies by with different endowment characteristics varies significantly. more pronounced small-scale high share income. (4) interaction term between degree. Based these findings, recommends relevant institutions focus enhancing literacy, strengthening guarantee system, developing differentiated strategies promoting

Language: Английский

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The impact of social capital and government support on farmers’ willingness to pay for road governance: a case study of rural road governance in China

Frontiers in Environmental Science, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 13

Published: April 3, 2025

The global environmental governance landscape is currently confronted with complex and pressing challenges, while rural road environments play a crucial role in providing essential services to ecosystems, making them key factor the success or failure of governance. Based on 2018 China Labor Dynamic Survey Database (CLDS), this article approaches issue from perspective uses informal social networks farmers as starting point construct an analytical framework for capital farmers’ willingness engage Additionally, examine close link between welfare policies participation public affairs, specifically focuses potential moderating effect government support (agricultural subsidies) instrumental variable method mitigate its endogeneity. study shows that: (1) Both improvements trust can promote However, process participation, exposure cutting-edge green technologies precisely activate individuals’ (2) In promoting individual farmer protection it emphasize incentives provided by policies, increase agricultural subsidies, expand their depth breadth coverage. (3) Government departments should enhance industrial vitality northeastern regions, accelerate transformation, invigorate economic activity, prevent population loss causing disruptions villages. western context-specific cultural intervention measures be developed. Through long-term continuous “cultural governance” practices, bottom-up, progressive approach adopted stimulate enthusiasm non-interest-driven affairs achieve self-sufficiency field.

Language: Английский

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