Smallholder farmer preferences for diversifying farming with cover crops of sustainable farm management: A discrete choice experiment in Northwest China

Nong, Yixin; Yin, Changbin; Yi, Xiaoyan; Ren, Jianke; Chien, Hsiaoping

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107060

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“…The socio‐demographic information of the respondents is shown in Table 2. The proportion of male farmers (67.4%) is higher than that of female (32.6%), which is consistent with the survey results of Chinese farmers in previous researches (Nong et al., 2021; Zhifang Zhou et al., 2020). A total of 16.9% of farmers were under 40 years old, and nearly 80% of farmers had education levels below senior high school, which confirms the reality of the lack of young and well‐educated labor in rural China (Liao et al., 2019).…”

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Analytic and heuristic process for prudent antimicrobial use in animals: What are triggers and how do they work?

Wang,

Gong,

Bai

et al. 2023

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The over and misuse of antimicrobials in animal agriculture causes a prevailing crisis for humans, animals, and the environment. From the One Health approach perspective, the formation process of adopting prudent antimicrobial use (AMU), once established, can be used to mitigate this crisis. The study aimed to determine the analytic‐based and heuristic‐based process that evoked prudent AMU among animal farmers by synthesis of stimulus‐organism‐response framework and dual‐system theory and to explore gender differences on risk–benefit trade‐offs. A structural equation model was employed to test the proposed hypotheses with field survey data from 1100 small‐scale farmers. The results reveal that for the analytic‐based process, social influence, antimicrobial‐related threats, and self‐efficacy are all salient stimuli having indirect effects on intention via the two organisms of perceived risks and perceived benefits. For heuristic‐based process, farmers’ altruistic value orientations are positively associated with intention. An interesting fact is that threat awareness has two opposite effects on intention, namely, the suppression effect and the enhancement effect. Moreover, the negative effect of perceived risks on intention is greater among female farmers, compared to male counterparts. These findings provide valuable insights for the forming of theory‐based intervention strategies to perfect China's national action plan.

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Analytic and heuristic process for prudent antimicrobial use in animals: What are triggers and how do they work?

Wang,

Gong,

Bai

et al. 2023

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“…According to them, it will lead to the exclusion of small and marginal farmers on the grounds of attaining economies of scale, buyers' dominance in decision-making, payment delays to farmers, rejection of produce for quality reasons, and uncertainty over honoring the contract and its legal enforcement. Similar debates have been witnessed in several other developing countries, especially in Africa, leading to controversy and confusion on the part of the government on the efficacy of these agreements in promoting economic and social welfare with global transitions in agriculture due to trade-offs and crises; see Krausmann and Langthaler (2019), Yixin Nong et al (2021), Jampel Dell'Angelo et al (2021), and O'Hara and Toussaint (2021)-to name a few. Bjornlund et al (2022) finds in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa that increased production for exports caused disruption in per capita food availability, as fundamental things such as research, investment, and lack of agricultural productivity were not promoted.…”

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confidence: 75%

Contract Farming and Food Insecurity in an Open Competitive Economy: Growth, Distribution, and Government Policy

Das

Bhattacharyya

Marjit

2023

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The paper explores the emergence and consequence of contract farming as a new subsector of agriculture in a small open developing economy, applying the theory of finite change in a general equilibrium framework. In this paper, we analyze the entry of a cash crop-producing foreign contract farming (CF) subsector within the agricultural sector of a country. Entry requires a cash crop price that is substantially above the price of the food crop already being produced within the country. CF (a) increases GDP and hence aggregate economic welfare; (b) may make income distribution more skewed; (c) reduces domestic production of food and hence, (d) increases food import and hence food insecurity. Thus, CF might imply a trade-off between inequality and growth. We employ a variant of the 3×3 mixed specific factor-Heckscher Ohlin general equilibrium model of production and trade where introduction of a new policy may lead to the emergence of a new sector resulting in finite changes where we show the possibilities of sectoral diversification with combinations of contract farming vis-à-vis traditional agriculture under some plausible conditions. Our results seem to be consistent when compared to some empirically robust conclusions found in the literature and some secondary data available on the FAO website. We also argue that the food insecurity problem gets aggravated as more and more countries engage in contract farming. Policy simulations identify critical parameters confirming the dominance of distribution over the growth effect in terms of a social welfare function. Simulations imply that there could be a food insecurity problem, as rises in GDP could result in increasing inequality so that government—to preserve social welfare—could restrict the extent of contract farming if non-food-producing sectors expand, causing terms-of-trade deterioration of food-importing nations.

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“…Chèze et al (2020) find that the WTA for pesticide use reduction depends on crop types. Nong et al (2021) find that the production activities were important determinant of the WTA of adapting sustainable farm management practices.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…Farmers' age, educational level, income have shown to be important characteristics to explain adoption of sustainable management practices (see for example (e.g. Nong et al, 2021) ). The education variable is defined as a categorical variable ranging from 1 to 7 8 , Fig.…”

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Landowners’ willingness to accept pesticide reduction in the Pipiripau River Basin (Brazil)

Prado

Abildtrup

2022

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Smallholder farmer preferences for diversifying farming with cover crops of sustainable farm management: A discrete choice experiment in Northwest China

Cited by 14 publications

References 37 publications

Analytic and heuristic process for prudent antimicrobial use in animals: What are triggers and how do they work?

Analytic and heuristic process for prudent antimicrobial use in animals: What are triggers and how do they work?

Contract Farming and Food Insecurity in an Open Competitive Economy: Growth, Distribution, and Government Policy

Landowners’ willingness to accept pesticide reduction in the Pipiripau River Basin (Brazil)

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