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Agricultural Strategies for Food and Environmental Security

A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Economics, Policies and Rural Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 July 2024) | Viewed by 2984

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Dr. Chao Zhang

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School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 102488, China
Interests: green transformation of agriculture; carbon reduction; digital and smart agriculture; agricultural R&D; fertilizer use; labor migration

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Food security involves ensuring that there is enough affordable food available for everyone to maintain their health. Environmental security involves ensuring the safety of the environment in which people live in the context of sustainable development. In the whole world, particularly in developing countries like China, extensive agricultural practices have been harmful to both food and environmental security.

Thus, scientific and effective agricultural strategies are highly crucial for ensuring food and environmental security. In terms of a single country, agricultural strategies for food and environmental security could be analyzed with a focus on the issues of food policy, agricultural technology, and the application of new-type agricultural technologies (e.g., biotechnology, digital technology). From an international perspective, attention should be paid to the cooperation that promotes synergistic progress in international agricultural development and environmental conservation.

This Special Issue welcome submissions focusing on agricultural strategies used for food and environmental security in terms of food policy, agricultural technology extension, the adoption of biotechnology, digital and smart agriculture, and agrochemical reduction. The detailed topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Determinants, measures, and strategies for agrochemical reduction;
  • Strategies for reforming agricultural extension systems and developing socialized agricultural services;
  • Strategies for biotechnology development and adoption;
  • Sustainability and strategies for effective land use;
  • Food policy;
  • Strategies for managing agricultural non-point source pollution;
  • Strategies for digital and smart agriculture development;
  • International cooperation for food and environmental security.

Dr. Chao Zhang
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • agrochemical
  • agricultural extension
  • biotechnology
  • land use
  • food policy
  • non-point source pollution
  • digital and smart agriculture
  • international cooperation

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Internet-Based Information Acquisition, Technical Knowledge and Farmers’ Pesticide Use: Evidence from Rice Production in China
by Shanshan Li, Shengyang Sun and Chao Zhang
Agriculture 2024, 14(9), 1447; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14091447 - 25 Aug 2024
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The overuse of pesticides has led to serious ecological and environmental degradation, largely due to the lack of effectiveness of agricultural-extension services. In recent years, an increasing number of farmers have tended to acquire technical information from the Internet. In this context, the [...] Read more.
The overuse of pesticides has led to serious ecological and environmental degradation, largely due to the lack of effectiveness of agricultural-extension services. In recent years, an increasing number of farmers have tended to acquire technical information from the Internet. In this context, the present study analyzes the impact of Internet-based information acquisition on pesticide use and the mediating role of farmers’ technical knowledge. For this purpose, the treatment-effects model and survey data covering 1113 rice farmers in Guizhou, Hubei, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang provinces in China were utilized. The results indicate that Internet-based information acquisition could significantly reduce the intensity of pesticide use by 2.036 kg/ha, accounting for the self-selection issue. Further analysis illustrates that farmers’ technical knowledge plays a significant mediating role in the negative impact of Internet-based information acquisition on pesticide-use intensity. In addition, the impacts of Internet-based information acquisition on pesticide-use intensity are heterogeneous across different education levels or rice-sown areas. Thus, the present study suggests that efforts should be made to accelerate the construction of rural information infrastructure networks to broaden smallholder farmers’ access to technical information from the Internet platforms, promote “Internet plus” agricultural-extension services, and improve farmers’ skills in using the Internet. Full article
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Public Willingness to Pay for Farmland Eco-Compensation and Allocation to Farmers: An Empirical Study from Northeast China
by Baoqi Liu, Lishan Xu, Yulin Long, Yuehua Wei and Changlin Ao
Agriculture 2024, 14(7), 1166; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14071166 - 17 Jul 2024
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Farmland eco-compensation, as a typical payment for ecosystem services scheme, aims to address trade-offs between environmental and developmental objectives. As indispensable eco-compensation supporters, the public’s willingness to pay (WTP) for farmland eco-compensation and the allocation to farmers directly affect ecological safety and sustainable [...] Read more.
Farmland eco-compensation, as a typical payment for ecosystem services scheme, aims to address trade-offs between environmental and developmental objectives. As indispensable eco-compensation supporters, the public’s willingness to pay (WTP) for farmland eco-compensation and the allocation to farmers directly affect ecological safety and sustainable development for farmland. Therefore, this study links the public’s WTP for the farmland eco-compensation to the financial subsidies received by farmers and presents a theoretical framework and research approach that connects stakeholders, applying improved choice experiments for empirical study in the black soil region of northeastern China. The results showed that the public has a positive WTP for the farmland eco-compensation program that improves the area, soil thickness, and organic content expeditiously. The public’s WTP allocation for eco-compensation varies considerably, with the share allocated to farmers in their WTP averaging 46.96%, showing a benchmark for compensation standards. The results revealed the influential relationship between the socioeconomic characteristics of the public with WTP allocation and the preferences for farmland eco-compensation, such as the positive correlation between age with WTP allocation and females’ greater preference for eco-compensation. These findings can provide new perspectives and approaches to exploring sustainable pathways for farmland eco-compensation. Full article
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Telecoupling Effects among Provinces of Cultivated Land Grain Production in the Last 30 Years: Evidence from China
by Jingjing Li, Yingbin Feng and Lei Gu
Agriculture 2024, 14(7), 1121; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14071121 - 11 Jul 2024
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Telecoupling interregional resource interaction based on cultivated land grain production (CLGP) plays a crucial role in ensuring national food security and advancing sustainable socio-environmental and economic development. Based on the provincial panel data of 31 administrative regions in China from 1990 to 2020, [...] Read more.
Telecoupling interregional resource interaction based on cultivated land grain production (CLGP) plays a crucial role in ensuring national food security and advancing sustainable socio-environmental and economic development. Based on the provincial panel data of 31 administrative regions in China from 1990 to 2020, we used the spatial and temporal evolution of CLGP and the global Moran index to detect the spatial correlation of CLGP among the provinces in China; we adopted the SDM to study the telecoupling effect of CLGP among the provinces in China and decompose the effect, enabling us to propose policy recommendations for enhancing the telecoupling effect among the provinces. The results are as follows: (1) China’s inter-provincial CLGP has shown an increasingly strong telecoupling effect over time, further validating the scientific nature of China’s grain production pattern. (2) Cultivated land, irrigation area, the number of agricultural employees, the power of agricultural machinery, the proportion of grain sown, and total grain production have positive “flow” effects on spatial teleconnections between provinces and regions. (3) In terms of the total telecoupling effect, the most significant factor affecting CLGP is the ratio of the area sown with grain to the total area sown with crops. Meanwhile, the area of cultivated land in each region, the irrigated area, the agricultural labor force, the agricultural machinery total power, and the percentage of grain sowing in each region have the most direct telecoupling effect on CLGP. The conduct of the study further fleshes out the empirical research on interregional resource telecoupling linkages arising from resource deployment and utilization. Full article
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Can Agricultural Insurance Policy Adjustments Promote a ‘Grain-Oriented’ Planting Structure?: Measurement Based on the Expansion of the High-Level Agricultural Insurance in China
by Yonghao Yuan and Bin Xu
Agriculture 2024, 14(5), 708; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14050708 - 29 Apr 2024
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Ensuring national food security is a perennial topic, and securing the grain planting area is an essential solution. Cost savings at scale from agricultural insurance policy adjustments could be a powerful incentive for grain production. In this study, 527 data sets from 31 [...] Read more.
Ensuring national food security is a perennial topic, and securing the grain planting area is an essential solution. Cost savings at scale from agricultural insurance policy adjustments could be a powerful incentive for grain production. In this study, 527 data sets from 31 provinces in China from 2006 to 2022 were used as the sample, and the author applied a multi-stage DID model to measure the effects of agricultural insurance policy adjustments on the grain planting area and planting structure, as well as the influence mechanisms behind them. The results can be summarized as follows: Firstly, agricultural insurance policy adjustments can make a significant contribution to increasing the grain planting area, with some positive impact on the ‘grain-oriented’ planting structure. Secondly, agricultural insurance policy adjustments can significantly increase the grain planting area by increasing the application of agricultural machinery, but this mechanism does not affect the ‘grain orientation’ planting structure. Thirdly, agricultural insurance policy adjustments can have a significant positive impact on the grain planting area and ‘grain—oriented’ planting structure in both high- and low-risk areas, with low-risk areas being more affected than high-risk areas. Full article
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