Forging new pathways: How farmland abandonment affects decision-making of non-grain production - Insight from China's mountainous areas.

IF 8 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Journal of Environmental Management Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-17 DOI:10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.123753
Hengfei Song, Xiubin Li, Liangjie Xin, Xue Wang
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Abstract

The shift in crop growth in rural households towards non-grain crops is a focus of concern in China's grain security. Land allocation decisions by rural households to abandon farmland can affect crop growth decisions. Prior studies on the relationship between farmland abandonment and rural households' crop growing decisions have been insufficient. This study presents a theoretical framework that encompasses land, labor force, and capital. Using unique survey data from 2448 rural households in China's mountainous areas, we employ an endogenous switching regression model for empirical estimation. The findings demonstrate that farmland abandonment significantly promoted rural households to grow grain crops on their remaining farmland. If rural households had not abandoned their farmland, the crop acreage used for growing non-grain crops would have increased by 16.4%. The effects of abandonment on non-grain production decision-making vary based on per capita farmland area, farmland transfer, and agricultural social services. Furthermore, farmland abandonment by rural households affects decision-making regarding non-grain production by adjusting the agricultural labor force supply. Thus, under policies such as farmland protection and food security, it is necessary to balance the goals of replanting abandoned farmland and preventing non-grain crop growth in mountainous areas, with a focus on enhancing the level of mechanization.

开辟新途径:退耕如何影响非粮食生产决策——来自中国山区的洞察。
农户种植作物转向种植非粮食作物,是中国粮食安全关注的焦点。农户放弃耕地的土地分配决策会影响作物生长决策。以往关于农地撂荒与农户作物种植决策关系的研究并不充分。本研究提出了一个包含土地、劳动力和资本的理论框架。利用中国山区2448户农户的独特调查数据,采用内生转换回归模型进行实证估计。研究结果表明,撂荒显著促进农户在剩余耕地上种植粮食作物。如果农户不放弃耕地,用于种植非粮食作物的耕地面积将增加16.4%。撂荒对非粮食生产决策的影响因人均耕地面积、耕地流转和农业社会服务等因素而异。农户撂荒行为通过调节农业劳动力供给影响非粮食生产决策。因此,在农田保护和粮食安全等政策下,需要平衡山区退耕还田和防止非粮食作物生长的目标,重点是提高机械化水平。
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Journal of Environmental Management
Journal of Environmental Management 环境科学-环境科学
CiteScore
13.70
自引率
5.70%
发文量
2477
审稿时长
84 days
期刊介绍: The Journal of Environmental Management is a journal for the publication of peer reviewed, original research for all aspects of management and the managed use of the environment, both natural and man-made.Critical review articles are also welcome; submission of these is strongly encouraged.
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