Farmers' Perception of Sustainability for Crop Production on the North China Plain

Wei, Yongping; White, Rob; Chen, D.; Davidson, Brian; Zhang, J. B.

doi:10.1300/j064v30n03_09

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“…The parameter estimates of the Tobit model highlighted the value of extension (EXT) and education (EDU) to boost farmers' awareness of the need for resource protection, as noted elsewhere (e.g. Ervin and Ervin, 1982;Baidu-Forson, 1999;Wei et al, 2007). This shows that there are opportunities for educational institutions and agricultural extension services to design and implement appropriate information dissemination packages.…”

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“…A total of 304 households from 14 villages were surveyed (152 each from the project and control villages). Following the methodology of Wei et al (2007), previously applied in the North China Plain, a structured questionnaire was developed to gather the required information. It consisted of three parts.…”

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“…As outlined by Feder et al (1985), researchers typically select a number of potential independent variables for inclusion in an analysis based on prior theorising and they test, usually via logistic (logit) or probit regression, which variables correlate with perception or adoption in some statistically significant sense. Typically, these variables are categorised into four groups: farmer and farm household characteristics including age, education and farming/employment orientation of farmers (Ervin and Ervin, 1982;Gould et al, 1989), farm biophysical characteristics including farm size, area planted and farm fragmentation (Rahm and Huffman, 1984;Wei et al, 2007), farm financial/management characteristics including farm income, off-farm income and risk aversion (Gleeson et al, 2002;Nkonya et al, 2005) and exogenous factors such as input and output prices, extension services and program participation (Baidu-Forson, 1999;Rasul and Thapa, 2003). Knowler and Bradshaw (2007) reviewed 31 separate analyses of the adoption of conservation agriculture and identified nearly 170 significant variables.…”

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The environment and the natural resource base have been severely degraded in Alxa League, western Inner Mongolia, China, over the past half-century. This study reports surveys that reveal farmers' perceptions of environmental degradation and their adoption of improved management practices in this poor and remote desert region. Surveys were made in villages that had been engaged in a large environmental rehabilitation and management project [Alxa League environmental rehabilitation and management project (ALERMP)] and those that had not. The survey results showed that farmers perceived environmental degradation in terms of increased frequency and severity of sandstorms, movement of sand dunes, deterioration of pasture quality and declines in groundwater depth and quality. Farmers had low adoption rates for improved management practices, ranging from zero to a maximum of 28Á5 per cent for the most adopted practice. A Tobit model analysis showed that the education level of farmers, the availability of extension services and whether farmers had participated in ALERMP were highly significantly correlated with the farmers' perception of degradation. The farmers' adoption of improved management practices was found to be significantly correlated only with whether they had participated in ALERMP. This shows that specific extension activities of the type possible in large and well-funded projects are required if farmers are to recognise degradation and adopt improved management practices. The promotion of farmer education and strengthening of extension services are recommended as the best policy strategies for improving environmental management in this region.

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“…Respondents were asked to verify real farm practices, not reply with answers that correspond to an ideal farm; still, it is possible that some wanted to reflect their idea of sustainable practices, or responded with what they would do if they had more access to resources (Wei et al, 2007). Nonetheless, the totality of responses revealed some very important truths, in regard to the weak points of each farm system and their possible effects upon the soil.…”

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Global Questions, Local Answers: Soil Management and Sustainable Intensification in Diverse Socioeconomic Contexts of Cuba

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In the complex context of global food and agricultural systems, research in agriculture must respond to multidisciplinary questions of economic development, ecological sustainability and food justice. With the objective of responding to several of the most important questions facing agriculture today, this article describes recent research in three Cuban cropping systems: state farms, cooperatives, and small family farmers. Soil management is considered here as a crux of human intervention in agroecosystems, capable of determining the impacts of productive activities upon agricultural and ecosystem functions. Management practices commonly used in each farm system are evaluated using two systems of indicators, one for technological quality and one for agricultural intensification. Soil physical quality is characterized through laboratory analysis of samples taken in the same type of soil under long-term production in state, cooperative, and family farmer cropping systems. Soil structure management in the small farmer system is especially worthy of study, because this agricultural system has developed an intensive agroecological productive model Soil Management in Cuba 651 on the basis of low external input use, polycultures and internal nutrient cycling. Favorable policies and farmer organizations are discussed as indispensible elements of sustainable agricultural development. The relationships between soil management, local knowledge, and food access are explored in the Cuban context and as directions for food system studies.

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“…Demographics such as age, experience, education, family size, land-holding Nkamleu and Adesina (2000), Croppenstedt et al (2003), Freeman and Omiti (2003), Fufa and Hassen (2006), Yilma and Berger (2006), Wei et al (2007), ), Olayide et al (2009), Zhou et al (2010, Ebenstein et al (2011), Gebrezgabher andHolden (2011), Wakeyo andGardebroek (2011), Alabi et al (2012), Danso-Abbeam et al (2014) and Ma et al (2014) Peer pressure Feder et al (1985), Trenkel (1997) and Benett and Cattle (2013) Availability of cash Nunez and Mccann (2004), Nkonya et al (2005), Waithaka et al (2007), Wei et al (2009) andMózner et al (2012) Risk aversion attitude Bontems and Thomas (2000), Genxu et al (2005), Zhao (2009), Ma et al (2014) and Stuart et al (2014) Labour availability Williams (2005), Zhou et al (2010), Ebenstein et al (2011), Zerfu andLarson (2011), Mozner et al (2012) and Tesfaye et al (2014) Goal of farming sustenance/commercial Beegle et al (2000), Tong et al (2003) and Zhou et al (2010) Government-subsidy Duflo et al (2011), Giovanopoulou et al (2011) and Thuo et al (2011_ Crop yield Adesina and…”

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Comprehensive assessment of fertiliser-linked environmental externalities and its key determinants: IWRM approach

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Agricultural activities are responsible for the deterioration of essential ecosystem services like clean water, air and soil. This literature review has identified a multitude of sources for water quality deterioration and emphasised on agricultural pollution due to excessive use of nutrients particularly nitrogen fertilisers. Through this paper, it has also been attempted to identify the upstream cause of fertiliser-linked water quality degradation issue by the cross-sectoral study of the various drivers of fertiliser use intensity. The synthesis of cause and effect has resulted in broader and deeper understanding of the scope of nutrient management at farm level. The paper advocates embracing an integrated water resource management practice as an instrument to manage provisioning and supporting ecosystem services. The review emphasises to focus on the synergistic effect of various factors consisting of socio-economic, personal, institutional and agro-ecological factors to mitigate the nutrient pollution problem as well as the resilience of natural resources. The understanding of farmer fertiliser use pattern can be pivotal in meeting the challenge of sustainable agro-ecosystems by decreasing the trade-offs and maximising the synergies between various factors.

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Farmers' Perception of Sustainability for Crop Production on the North China Plain

Cited by 14 publications

References 37 publications

Farmers' perception of environmental degradation and their adoption of improved management practices in Alxa, China

Farmers' perception of environmental degradation and their adoption of improved management practices in Alxa, China

Global Questions, Local Answers: Soil Management and Sustainable Intensification in Diverse Socioeconomic Contexts of Cuba

Comprehensive assessment of fertiliser-linked environmental externalities and its key determinants: IWRM approach

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