Ecological compensation for winter wheat fallow and impact assessment of winter fallow on water sustainability and food security on the North China Plain

Ti, Jinsong; Yang, Yadong; Pu, Liangliang; Wen, Xinya; Yin, Xia; Chen, Fu

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.129431

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“…Control variables: Li et al (2015) found that cultivated land awareness, literacy, labour force size, farmers' trust in fallow policies, cultivated land area and farmers' own attitudes towards fallow were important factors influencing farmers' willingness to fallow; Liu and Hu (2021) argued that farmers' willingness to fallow is affected by their subjective perceptions and the living environment they live in. Ti et al (2022) put forward that increasing farmers' awareness of fallow compensation policies and farmers' trust in the local government can increase farmers' fallow willingness. found that the smaller the number of plots, the higher the satisfaction with the policy, the more social ties and the stronger the inclination to urban employment, the higher the farmers' willingness to participate in fallow; concluded that age and gender are the main factors influencing farmers' willingness to fallow, and suggested that the government's provision of off-farm employment opportunities to farmers would facilitate the effective implementation of the fallow policy, while the reduction of social opportunities would increase the economic pressure on farmers' livelihoods, further prompting them to go out for employment to earn more income.…”

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The influence of asset specificity on farmers’ willingness to participate in fallow from the perspective of farmer differentiation

Zhang

Xie

Luo

et al. 2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Fallow is an important institutional guarantee for green agricultural development and an important measure to promote rural revitalization. Asset specificity is a crucial factor that affects farmers’ willingness to participate in fallow. In order to improve farmers’ willingness of to fallow and promote the long-term promotion of fallow system, based on the perspective of farmer differentiation, a total of 1,240 micro survey data in four cities of Gansu province was used to quantify the asset specificity by the entropy method. A multivariate ordered Logit model and a double-hurdle model were established to explore the effects of asset specificity on the willingness of farmers with different degrees of differentiation. The results show that: 1) There are differences in fallow willingness among different types of farmers. The fallow willingness of non-farmers and II part-time farmers is generally stronger than that of pure farmers and I part-time farmers. 2) Geographical location specificity has a significant negative impact on the fallow willingness of the four types of non-fallow farmers, and has significant negative impacts on the subsequent fallow willingness and fallow degree of the four types of fallow farmers. 3) Physical asset specificity has a significant negative effect on the fallow willingness of pure farmers, I part-time and II part-time farmers among non-fallow farmers, but has little effect on the subsequent fallow willingness of fallow farmers. 4) Human capital specificity has a significant negative impact on the fallow willingness of the four types of non-fallow farmers, and has a significant negative impact on the subsequent fallow willingness and fallow degree of the four types of fallow farmers.

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Section: Variable Selectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The influence of asset specificity on farmers’ willingness to participate in fallow from the perspective of farmer differentiation

Zhang

Xie

Luo

et al. 2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…Specifically, we suggest continuing to optimize the layout of grain crops towards an environmental-friendly way. Relevant measures include consolidating the achievements of the cultivated land rehabilitation policy in the Heilonggang region of Hebei province, and appropriately expanding the pilot areas of this policy to continue reducing the sown area of winter wheat in northern NCP where the production of winter wheat is high irrigation-water intensive and high energy intensive [ 42 , 43 ]. At the same time, in Henan, Jiangsu, and Anhui, the sown area of winter wheat-summer maize and winter wheat-rice double cropping system should be increased through moderate subsides to ensure a stable grain supply of the NCP.…”

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Changes in the Water-Energy Coupling Relationship in Grain Production: A Case Study of the North China Plain

Wang

Xiao

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Water consumption and energy consumption are inevitable in grain production, but few studies have focused on the integrated assessment of these two indicators and their relationships. To address the research deficiency, taking the North China Plain (NCP) as a case study, this paper quantifies the changes in grain crop planting structure and the accompanying changes in irrigation water consumption (IWC) and energy consumption (EC) in the NCP. On this basis, the water-energy coupling index (CI) is constructed to analyze the water-energy coupling relationship in the context of grain crop planting structure change. The results revealed that the sown area of three of the four main grain crops in the NCP, namely winter wheat, summer maize, and rice, roughly increased in the south and decreased in the north, while the sown area of spring maize increased in most counties where it was planted in the NCP from 2000 to 2015. With the change of grain crop planting structure, IWC and EC of winter wheat in the NCP decreased by 19.87 × 106 m3 and 16.78 × 108 MJ, respectively, mainly distributed in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, while IWC and EC of other crops all increased. In terms of CI values, although that of spring maize increased, those of winter wheat, summer maize, and rice all decreased, and the overall CI values of grain production in the NCP decreased from 0.442 in 2000 to 0.438 in 2015, indicating that grain crop distribution has been optimized toward a less water- and energy-intensive and more sustainable layout in the NCP. This paper can add case and methodological support to the food-water-energy (FEW) nexus research and can also provide policy suggestions for regional crop optimization layout and conservation of both water and energy resources.

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“…The results obtained are presented in column (5) of Table 3. In addition, in order to mitigate potential bidirectional causality, the control variables in the benchmark regression are borrowed and lagged by one period in their entirety, replacing the original control variables in the benchmark model in order to avoid the endogeneity problem, and the results obtained are shown in column (6) of Table 3. According to the results in the two columns of the table, the estimated coefficients of treat × post remain significantly negative at the 1 percent level, supporting the results of the benchmark regression.…”

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“…Water resources are an important factor affecting the use of arable land. Fallowing gives a period of reprieve in the natural supply system of water resources and a rise in the water table of soil groundwater resources [6]. Fallowing avoids the overconsumption of agricultural labour and promotes the recovery of the physical quality of the labour force.…”

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Can a Crop Rotation and Fallow System Reduce the Carbon Emission Intensity of Agriculture?

Zhang,

Sun,

Xia

et al. 2024

Land

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Under the carbon emission pattern of “peak carbon and carbon neutrality”, the policy of crop rotation and fallow system (CRFS) is regarded as an important initiative to promote the green, low-carbon, and high-quality development of agriculture. Focusing on balanced panel data from 30 provinces in China from 2010 to 2021, this paper empirically examines the impact of CRFS on agricultural carbon emissions (ACEI) and its internal mechanism using a multi-temporal difference-in-differences model. The benchmark regression results show that CRFS can significantly reduce ACEI, and the results remain robust after validation by multiple methods. Mechanism results show that CRFS is able to reduce ACEI by reducing factor mismatch and promoting the level of agricultural services. Heterogeneity analysis results show that the arable land fallow rotation system is more conducive to promoting the reduction in agricultural carbon emission intensity in the main grain producing areas, main grain marketing areas, high land transfer areas, and plantation areas than in the grain production and marketing balanced areas, low land transfer, and animal husbandry areas. This study demonstrates the effectiveness of the CRFS policy implementation, provides a doctrinal basis for expanding the scope of CRFS implementation, and provides policy recommendations for relevant departments to improve the CRFS policy.

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Ecological compensation for winter wheat fallow and impact assessment of winter fallow on water sustainability and food security on the North China Plain

Cited by 17 publications

References 48 publications

The influence of asset specificity on farmers’ willingness to participate in fallow from the perspective of farmer differentiation

The influence of asset specificity on farmers’ willingness to participate in fallow from the perspective of farmer differentiation

Changes in the Water-Energy Coupling Relationship in Grain Production: A Case Study of the North China Plain

Can a Crop Rotation and Fallow System Reduce the Carbon Emission Intensity of Agriculture?

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