The effect of contract farming on the environmentally sustainable production of rice in China

Ren, Yanjun; Peng, Yanling; Campos, Bente Castro; Li, Houjian

doi:10.1016/j.spc.2021.08.011

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“…[5]. Many studies have pointed out that AGP plays a positive role in solving the deteriorating ecological environment in agricultural production [6,7]. Chinese authorities have issued a series of documents, including 'Technical Guidelines on Agricultural Green Development (2018-2030)' and 'Opinions on Comprehensively Promoting Rural Revitalization and Accelerating Agricultural and Rural Modernization'.…”

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Impacts of Risk Perception and Environmental Regulation on Farmers’ Sustainable Behaviors of Agricultural Green Production in China

Liu

Huang

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Agriculture

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In China, the excessive application and improper disposal of chemical inputs have posed a great threat to the agricultural ecological environment and human health. The key to solve this problem is to promote the sustainable behaviors of farmers’ agricultural green production (AGP). Based on the micro-survey data of 652 farmers, this study adopts the binary probit model to investigate the impacts of risk perception and environmental regulation on the sustainable behaviors of farmers’ AGP. Results show that both risk perception and environmental regulation have significant effects on farmers’ willingness to engage in sustainable behaviors. Moreover, environmental regulation can positively adjust risk perception to improve farmers’ willingness to engage in sustainable behaviors. In terms of the two-dimensional variables, economic risks create the greatest negative impacts, and their marginal effect is 7.3%, while voluntary regulation creates the strongest positive impacts, and its marginal effect is 14.1%. However, both constrained and voluntary regulation have an enhanced moderating effect, where the effects of voluntary regulation are more remarkable. This is mainly because the environmental regulation policy signed by the government and farmers through the letter of commitment can inspire farmers to continue to implement green agricultural production from the deep heart. Therefore, government policies should constantly reduce farmers’ risk perception in terms of economic input, and adopt restrictive behaviors measures, such as regulatory punishment and voluntary contract, to promote their sustainable behaviors of AGP to the maximum extent.

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Impacts of Risk Perception and Environmental Regulation on Farmers’ Sustainable Behaviors of Agricultural Green Production in China

Liu

Huang

et al. 2022

Agriculture

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“…Very interestingly, despite the potential of contractual arrangements in promoting environmental sustainability in the agri-food sector (Ren et al, 2021), empirical evidences do not allow to confirm hypothesis 2c, in line with Van den Broeck et al (2017). Results highlight that farmers tend to not accept a clause centralizing decision rights on sustainable cultivation techniques, which could contribute to guarantee safeguard for dedicated investments and protection from technological and behavioral uncertainty.…”

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Matching ecological transition and food security in the cereal sector: The role of farmers' preferences on production contracts

Ciliberti

Frascarelli

Martino

2023

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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IntroductionUnder an increasing demand from citizen and public institutions, agri-food supply chains are requested to comply with stringent environmental requirements. Moreover, new sources of uncertainty related to pandemic and geo-political turbulences put further pressures on economic agents, calling for proper and resilient governance mechanisms. Under the lens of the Neo Institutional Economics, we focus on production contracts and their clauses which, in turn, perform different functions and contribute to allocate property and decision rights, in the attempt to conciliate sustainability and food security.MethodsIn this framework, contract design assumes a key importance. Thus, we analyze farmers' preferences for different contractual clauses in the cereal sector. A choice experiment is carried out among durum wheat producers in Italy and mixed logit estimations assuming heterogeneous preferences are performed.Results and discussionFindings provide interesting indications, revealing a strong farmers' willingness to adhere production contracts in exchange for price stability and knowledge transfer offered by technical assistance services. However, producers are not available to limit their decisional autonomy in unilateral agreement with buyers and they reveal a certain indifference to costly production techniques aimed to improve environmental sustainability.

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“…Sensitivity analysis is needed to test the susceptibility of PSM's estimated average therapeutic outcome (ATT) to unobserved factors. Therefore, using existing literature, we used Rosenbaum's bounds analysis to test the sensitivity of treatment outcomes to unobservable objects (Rosenbaum and Rubin, 1983;Li et al, 2020;Ren et al, 2021).…”

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Can participation in cooperatives promote the adoption of green production techniques by Chinese apple growers: Counterfactual estimation based on propensity score matching

Dang²,

Yu³

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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As one of the key links of agricultural green sustainable development, it is an effective path to popularize green production technology and promote farmers’ adoption of green production technology by using cooperatives as an organizational vehicle. Based on the survey of 314 apple farmers in Shaanxi and Gansu provinces, the degree of adoption of green production technology was measured by the coefficient of variation method. At the same time, in view of the selection bias of farmers’ participation in cooperatives, the propensity score matching method was used to evaluate the influence of farmers’ participation in cooperatives on the adoption of green production techniques. The results showed that participation in cooperatives increases the probability of farmers adopting green production techniques from 25.29% to 30.29%, indicating that cooperatives increase the degree to which farmers adopt green production techniques. In addition, increased cognition of green production, which increases the price and net profit of products sold and reduces expectations of green production risks, is the primary channel through which cooperatives lead farmers to adopt green production technologies. Participation in cooperatives, though, increased input costs for apple production. In order to strengthen the active role of cooperatives in the popularization of green production technologies, more support should be given to cooperatives, and emphasis should be placed on strengthening their institutional development so that they can be standardized and developed at a high quality.

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The effect of contract farming on the environmentally sustainable production of rice in China

Cited by 33 publications

References 50 publications

Impacts of Risk Perception and Environmental Regulation on Farmers’ Sustainable Behaviors of Agricultural Green Production in China

Impacts of Risk Perception and Environmental Regulation on Farmers’ Sustainable Behaviors of Agricultural Green Production in China

Matching ecological transition and food security in the cereal sector: The role of farmers' preferences on production contracts

Can participation in cooperatives promote the adoption of green production techniques by Chinese apple growers: Counterfactual estimation based on propensity score matching

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