How Farmers Make Investment Decisions: Evidence from a Farmer Survey in China

Shuang-jin, Wang; Tian, Yuan; Liu, Xiaowei; Foley, Maggie

doi:10.3390/su12010247

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“…In the environment of the market economy, farmers, as “rational economic people”, their subjective will and choice of land production mode are the main influencing factors of cultivated land resource utilization and management and grain production capacity. Moreover, Wang and Tian et al found that the price of agricultural products directly affects the type of cultivated land utilization and the result of grain production [ 106 ]. At present, there is a realistic situation that is not optimistic; that is, the economic benefits of food production are generally lower than those of other economic crops.…”

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Knowledge Mapping of Research on Land Use Change and Food Security: A Visual Analysis Using CiteSpace and VOSviewer

Cheng

Tang

Dong

et al. 2021

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Many scholars have conducted in-depth research on the theme of land use change and food security, and formed fruitful research results, but there is a lack of quantitative analysis and comprehensive evaluation of research achievements. Therefore, based on the relevant literature on the theme of land use change and food security in the core collection of the Web of Science (WOS) database, this paper takes the advantage of CiteSpace and VOSviewer bibliometric software to draw the cooperative network and keyword cooccurrence map to analyze the research progress and frontier. The results reveal that: (1) The research started in 1999 and can be divided into three stages: initial research, rapid development, and a stable in-depth stage. This topic has increasingly become a research hotspot in the academic community. (2) The distribution of research institutions is concentrated and forms a small cluster, and the research networks between developed and developing countries have been established, and developed countries are in the core position, but the cooperation network is not prominent. (3) The research content is becoming increasingly organized and systematic, and the research hot topics are divided into seven aspects. (4) The research area of the subject covers multiple levels, such as global, national, and specific natural geographical regions, and has formed a research system of geographic information technology and satellite remote sensing technology. It also presents the trend of cross integration with economics, land management and soil science. In the future, theoretical innovation still needs to be strengthened, and we should strengthen the research on the impact of agricultural chemical fertilizers on food security and study the impact of urban expansion on land use change.

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Knowledge Mapping of Research on Land Use Change and Food Security: A Visual Analysis Using CiteSpace and VOSviewer

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Tang

Dong

et al. 2021

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“…The proportion of farmland irrigation (abbreviated to “irrigation”) . Water resources are an important element of agricultural production; however, the requirements of water resources by different types of crops are different [ 59 , 60 ]. Thus, farmland irrigation will impact farmers’ planting decisions.…”

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Will land circulation sway “grain orientation”? The impact of rural land circulation on farmers’ agricultural planting structures

Peng

Chen

et al. 2021

PLoS ONE

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This study calculates the effect of different types of land circulation on farmers’ decision-making regarding agricultural planting structure, using field survey data involving 1,120 households in Hubei province, China, and PSM (propensity score matching) and GPSM (general propensity score matching) methods. Results from PSM showed that land circulation could significantly increase farmers’ decisions to plant food crops, which confirms the positive effect of rural land circulation on the “grain orientation” of crop planting structure. Results from GPSM further indicate that the total land circulation, the paddy land circulation, and the dry land circulation all have significantly positive effects on planting structure adjustment towards “grain orientation.” Additionally, planting structure adjustment towards “grain orientation” increases as the scale of land circulation increases, and the former shows a higher rate of increase than the latter, which confirms that rural land circulation facilitates an adjustment in structure towards planting food crops.

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“…The basin corps is a large-scale, state-owned enterprise which operates self-sufficiently. The basin area is in the stage of agricultural structure adjustment centering on the development of animal husbandry [21]. Compared with the central and eastern regions of China, the economic development of the basin is relatively poor; farmers mainly cultivate crops, and so the farmer's cultural level is generally low.…”

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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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How Farmers Make Investment Decisions: Evidence from a Farmer Survey in China

Cited by 14 publications

References 52 publications

Knowledge Mapping of Research on Land Use Change and Food Security: A Visual Analysis Using CiteSpace and VOSviewer

Knowledge Mapping of Research on Land Use Change and Food Security: A Visual Analysis Using CiteSpace and VOSviewer

Will land circulation sway “grain orientation”? The impact of rural land circulation on farmers’ agricultural planting structures

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

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