Exploring Farmers’ Pro-Ecological Intentions after Ecological Rehabilitation in a Fragile Environment Area: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

Deng, Jian; Wu, Hao; Zhang, Wei; Han, Xinhui; Li, Kaiyuan; Feng, Yongzhong; Yang, Gaihe

doi:10.3390/su10010029

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“…According to this theory, if farmers experience higher private costs when adopting GPBs in agroforestry, they have a higher probability of adopting them. Additionally, the adoption of GPBs is suggested to be primarily affected by their attitudes, subjective norms, and perceptual behavior control, and studies have shown that these factors are conducive to an individual adopting pro-environmental behaviors [27][28][29]. However, few studies have focused on the agroforestry activities of farmers living in protected areas.…”

Section: Theoretical Framework and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ecological Awareness, Policy Perception, and Green Production Behaviors of Farmers Living in or near Protected Areas

Lei

Qiao

Gao

et al. 2023

Forests

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Research highlights: Ecological policies must balance ecosystem protection by promoting the sustainable livelihoods of farmers living in or near protected areas; however, the intrinsic motivations of farmers to adopt green production behaviors (GPBs) are poorly understood. Background and objectives: We explored how ecological policies affect the GPBs of farmers in agroforestry. Materials and methods: We conducted questionnaires of farmers in 11 counties of Sichuan Province, China, with abundant protected areas and large-scale agroforestry, after which a structural equation model of farmers’ ecological awareness, policy perception, and GPBs was constructed. Results: (1) Ecological policies can stimulate farmers’ GPBs by improving their ecological awareness, creating positive subjective norms, and inducing the “herd effect”. Increases in protection intensity and scope amplify the pressures on farmers to maintain more than long-term policy consistency. (2) Green production is more time-consuming, laborious, expensive, and difficult to learn compared with traditional production methods, which have somewhat limited GPBs adoption. (3) In the rural “acquaintance society”, information and communication from others have a substantial impact on farmers’ perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors; thus, positive subjective norms from formal and informal channels could promote GPB adoption. Conclusions: Future policies should prioritize environmental education over environmental publicity by helping farmers understand the long-term relationship between ecological protection and economic development, teaching individual environmental responsibility, enhancing positive feedback to farmers who adopt GPBs, actively exploring mechanisms for realizing the value of ecological products, and improving farmers’ management skills and learning ability.

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Section: Theoretical Framework and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ecological Awareness, Policy Perception, and Green Production Behaviors of Farmers Living in or near Protected Areas

Lei

Qiao

Gao

et al. 2023

Forests

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“…Compared to females, males were more inclined to engage in environmentally friendly behaviours [ 47 ]. Additionally, education level and awareness of environmental improvement affected young male farmers’ participation in the decision-making of rural human settlement environment governance [ 48 ]. TPB theory better explains the relationship between environmental behaviour and willingness of farmers [ 47 ], so it has been widely used in the research of farmers’ environmental behaviour and willingness.…”

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Influence of Government Information on Farmers’ Participation in Rural Residential Environment Governance: Mediating Effect Analysis Based on Moderation

Wang

Hao

et al. 2021

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Rural revitalisation in China relies heavily on the rural residential environment and is vital to the well-being of farmers. The governance of rural human settlements is a kind of public good. The external economy of governance results in the free-riding behaviour of some farmers, which does not entice farmers to participate in governance. However, current research seldom considers the public good of rural human settlements governance. This research is based on the pure public goods attribute of rural human settlements governance. It begins with government information and, using structural equation modelling (SEM), researchers construct the influence mechanism of government information, attitude, attention, and participation ability on the depth of farmers’ participation. The empirical results show that ability, attention, and attitude all have a dramatic positive influence on the depth of farmers’ participation, and the degree of impact gradually becomes weaker. Additionally, government information stimulus is not enough to promote farmers’ deep participation in governance. It needs to rely on intermediary variables to indirectly affect the depth of participation (ability, attention, attitude), and there is a path preference for the influence of government information on the depth of participation. As an important organisation in the management of rural areas, the village committee can significantly adjust the effect of the degree of attention on the depth of participation of farmers. Therefore, the government not only needs to provide farmers with reliable and useful information, but also needs to combine necessary measures to guide farmers to participate in the governance of rural human settlements.

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“…From 1958 to 1976 and from 1987 to 2006, the growth rates were 32.65 and 29.71 km/a, respectively. This shortened-or even cut off-the lower reaches of the Manas River, causing the water quality to deteriorate, decreasing biodiversity and limiting the water supply to grasslands, pastures, the oasis margin and the transitional desert zone [31][32][33][34].…”

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Analyzing Macro-Level Ecological Change and Micro-Level Farmer Behavior in Manas River Basin, China

Liao

Wang

et al. 2020

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Environmental degradation is closely related to unreasonable land use behaviors by farmers. In this study, participatory rural assessment (PRA) is used to conduct a detailed survey of farmers and plots and to collect relevant natural and social statistics. The accuracy of remote sensing data is verified by comparative analysis, and the change in status of various land use types in each research period is reflected by the change in the dynamic degree and change in range. We examine how farmers’ attitudes and behaviors affect environmental degradation, using a sample of 403 farmers in China’s Manas River Basin. Due to age, education, income and other differences, farmers’ land use behaviors, as well as their attitude toward and feelings about environmental degradation, vary greatly. We found that most farmers considered the environment to be very important to their lives and crop production, but nearly 21% did not know the causes of environmental degradation and nearly 8% did not consider the environmental impacts of their crop production activities. A new model for oasis expansion—land integration—is presented here. This model can increase the area of cultivated land, reduce cultivated land fragmentation, save irrigation water, improve the field microclimate and form a good ecological cycle. Through land transfer, ecological compensation and ecological protection incentives, the government should guide farmers’ land use behaviors toward cooperation with the river basin’s ecological protection and land use planning.

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Exploring Farmers’ Pro-Ecological Intentions after Ecological Rehabilitation in a Fragile Environment Area: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

Cited by 15 publications

References 42 publications

Ecological Awareness, Policy Perception, and Green Production Behaviors of Farmers Living in or near Protected Areas

Ecological Awareness, Policy Perception, and Green Production Behaviors of Farmers Living in or near Protected Areas

Influence of Government Information on Farmers’ Participation in Rural Residential Environment Governance: Mediating Effect Analysis Based on Moderation

Analyzing Macro-Level Ecological Change and Micro-Level Farmer Behavior in Manas River Basin, China

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