Sustainable Food Production from a Labor Supply Perspective: Policies and Implications

Xu, Ning; Zhang, Liqin; Leng, Xiyuan

doi:10.3390/su142315935

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“…In contrast, some scholars believe that part-time farming may lead to a shortage in the supply of agricultural labor, which will impede the sustainable development of agriculture. Therefore, measures need to be taken to increase the number of farms [8]. Therefore, measures such as increasing agricultural subsidies and strengthening professional training for farmers must be taken to promote sustainable agricultural development [9].…”

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A Study on the Professionalization of Young Part-Time Farmers Based on Two-Way Push–Pull Model

Yang,

Gai,

Zhang

2023

Sustainability

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A growing number of young Chinese farmers are abandoning agriculture. This research aimed to identify ways to stimulate enthusiasm among young people for choosing careers in agriculture and to promote the professionalization of young part-time farmers. This study surveyed 310 young part-time farmers in Chongqing City and Tianjin City. We constructed the Two-Way Push–Pull (TWPP) model to assess the willingness of young part-time farmers to work professionally in agriculture. The results show that agricultural policy support, hometown attachment, agricultural income, and agricultural industrialization significantly influence young part-time farmers’ willingness to pursue professional farming careers. However, risks of farming, children’s education, urban housing, and non-farm income negatively impact their willingness. The government must strengthen policy support’s influence on their willingness to motivate young part-time farmers to become professional farmers. This could include reducing farming risks, advancing agricultural industrialization, improving farmers’ professional status and reputation, and increasing the quality of rural public services.

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A Study on the Professionalization of Young Part-Time Farmers Based on Two-Way Push–Pull Model

Yang,

Gai,

Zhang

2023

Sustainability

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“…To this end, the Chinese government has repeatedly stressed the high-quality development of the grain industry, and the grain authorities have also vigorously taken action for high-quality grain production. However, China's grain production is still suffering from problems of the aging, part-time and small-scale operation of farm households, resulting in insufficient ability or high costs for the grain growers to engage in the high-quality production of grain [3][4][5][6]. Meanwhile, most of the technical personnel in China's grain industry are gathered in the field of scientific research or in circulation links, with a relative shortage of professionals in the production sector.…”

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Promotion Effect of Agricultural Production Trusteeship on High-Quality Production of Grain—Evidence from the Perspective of Farm Households

Sun,

Wang,

Zhu

et al. 2023

Agronomy

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Based on the survey data of five large grain-producing provinces in China, we have studied the promotion effect of the agricultural production trusteeship on the high-quality production of grain by using a propensity score matching method. The empirical results show that the high-quality production of the grain level increases by 0.292, with an increase of 87.4% after farm households participate in agricultural production trusteeship. The level of high efficiency, premiumization, greenization, and branding of grain production increased by 0.234, 0.373, 0.208, and 0.158, respectively. However, there are differences in the facilitation effects of different trusteeship services, with the best promotion effect of agricultural material supply services, followed by post-harvest services, and then land management services and cultivating and harvesting services. The average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) is 0.287, 0.230, 0.158, and 0.139, respectively. Meanwhile, there are differences in the promotion effects for farm households with different factor endowments. The promotion effect is better for small farm households with three laborers or less, a land management scale of 10 mus or less, and one type of agricultural machinery or less. Therefore, in order to give full play to the promotion effect of agricultural production trusteeship on high-quality production of grain, the government should vigorously support its development and guide more smallholders to choose agricultural production trusteeship.

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Research on food security issues considering changes in rainfall

Jiang,

Chen,

Xiao

et al. 2024

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Ensuring food security is not only vital to the adequate supply of food in the world, but also the key to the economic development and social stability of various countries. Based on the panel data of 29 provinces in China from 2016 to 2020, this paper selects the number of foodborne diseases patients and iodine deficiency disease patients as reference objects, uses stunting rate of children under 5 years old, malnutrition rate of children under 5 years old, obesity rate of children under 5 years old, and newborn visit rate to measure improving nutrition, proposes Meta Entropy Two-Stage Dynamic Direction Distance Function (DDF) Under an exogenous Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model to measure the efficiency of hunger eradication, food security, and improving nutrition under the influence of exogenous variable rainfall. The research results indicate that the sustainability of China’s agricultural economy is insufficient, and the focus of attention should be different in different stages. In addition, the average efficiency of the three regions generally shows a decreasing level in the eastern, western, and central regions. In order to improve China's ability to guarantee food security, we must continue to strengthen the construction of agricultural infrastructure, increase policy support for green agricultural production, promote the diversification of agricultural production, and enrich people’s agricultural product consumption varieties.

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Sustainable Food Production from a Labor Supply Perspective: Policies and Implications

Cited by 5 publications

References 68 publications

A Study on the Professionalization of Young Part-Time Farmers Based on Two-Way Push–Pull Model

A Study on the Professionalization of Young Part-Time Farmers Based on Two-Way Push–Pull Model

Promotion Effect of Agricultural Production Trusteeship on High-Quality Production of Grain—Evidence from the Perspective of Farm Households

Research on food security issues considering changes in rainfall

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