Research on Mediating Mechanisms and the Impact on Food Provision Services in Poor Areas from the Perspective of Stakeholders

Abstract

Exploring and analyzing the common demands and behavioral responses of different stakeholders is important for revealing the mediating mechanisms of ecosystem service (ES) and realizing the management and sustainable supply of ES. This study took Mizhi County, a poverty-stricken area on the Loess Plateau in China, as an example. First, the main stakeholders, common demands, and behavioral responses in the food provision services were identified. Second, the relationship among stakeholders was analyzed. Finally, this study summarized three types of mediating mechanisms of food provision services and analyzed the influence of the different types of mediating mechanisms. The main conclusions are as follows: (1) Five main stakeholders in the study area were identified: government, farmers, enterprises, cooperatives, and middlemen. (2) Increasing farmers’ income is the common demand of most stakeholders in the study area, and this common demand has different effects on the behavioral responses of different stakeholders. (3) There are three types of mediating mechanisms in the study area: government + farmers mediating corn and mutton, government + enterprises mediating millet, and government + cooperatives mediating apples. On this basis, the effects of the different types of mediating mechanisms on variations in food yield, and trade-offs and synergies in typical townships, were analyzed.

Evaluation of typical ecosystem services in Dabie Mountain area and its application in improving residents' well-being

“…Therefore, it is necessary to further explore the dynamic mechanism for the coordinated development of ecosystem services and residents’ well-being, strengthen the comprehensive ecological governance of land and space planning, establish and improve the alleviation mechanism for poverty. In addition, further identification of stakeholders related to ecosystem services and analysis of the regulatory mechanism of ecosystem services can provide an important basis for the management model of ecosystem service ( Geng et al., 2021 ). To promote the optimization of regional ecosystem functions and the coordinated improvement of residents’ living standards, this is also the focus and difficulty of China’s work in the process of relative poverty monitoring, consolidating the achievements of poverty alleviation and connecting rural revitalization effectively.…”