Northwest Institute of Historical Environment and Socio-Economic Development, Shaanxi Normal University, No. 620, West Chang'an Avenue, Chang'an District, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710119, People's Republic of China.
Nanjing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2022 Jan;29(3):4690-4709. doi: 10.1007/s11356-021-15934-8. Epub 2021 Aug 19.
Pollution from livestock and poultry is the main source of rural pollution, which directly affects the rural ecological environment as well as the quality and safety of agricultural products. Based on field experiment data on broiler farmers in China, this paper analyzes farmers' cleaner production behavior from the perspective of incomplete contracts and social trust. We find that social trust can promote farmers' cleaner production behavior. Moreover, our evidence suggests that contract farming (CF) has a significant positive effect on farmers' social trust and cleaner production behaviors. Further analysis indicates that CF not only directly promotes farmers' cleaner production, but can also indirectly promote farmers' cleaner production by improving their interpersonal trust and institutional trust. Overall, this paper offers a new point of view for improving the rural environment and sheds light upon how the government can formulate relevant policies to promote farmers' cleaner production behavior.
禽畜养殖污染是农村污染的主要来源，直接影响农村生态环境以及农产品质量安全。本文基于中国肉鸡养殖户的实地实验数据，从不完全契约和社会信任视角分析了农户的清洁生产行为。研究发现，社会信任能够促进农户的清洁生产行为。此外，本文证据表明，订单农业对农户社会信任和清洁生产行为具有显著的正向影响。进一步分析表明，订单农业不仅能够直接促进农户清洁生产，还可以通过提高农户人际信任和制度信任，进而间接促进农户清洁生产。总之，本文为改善农村环境提供了新视角，并为政府制定相关政策以促进农户清洁生产行为提供了启示。
