Sohail Muhammad Tayyab, Chen Shaoming
School of Public Administration, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan, China.
South Asia Research Center, School of Public Administration, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan, China.
Front Plant Sci. 2022 Aug 25;13:990785. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.990785. eCollection 2022.
The present study was conducted in one of the major agriculture areas to check farmers indigenous knowledge about the impacts of floods on their farming lives, food security, sustainable development, and risk assessment. In the current study, primary data was used to analyze the situation. A semi-structured questionnaire was distributed among farmers. We have collected a cross-sectional dataset and applied the PLS-SEM dual-stage hybrid model to test the proposed hypotheses and rank the social, economic, and technological factors according to their normalized importance. Results revealed that farmers' knowledge associated with adaption strategies, food security, risk assessment, and livelihood assets are the most significant predictors. Farmers need to have sufficient knowledge about floods, and it can help them to adopt proper measurements. A PLS-SEM dual-stage hybrid model was used to check the relationship among all variables, which showed a significant relationship among DV, IV, and control variables. PLS-SEM direct path analysis revealed that AS (b = -0.155; 0.001), FS (b = 0.343; 0.001), LA (b = 0.273; 0.001), RA (b = 0.147; 0.006), and for FKF have statistically significant values of beta, while SD (b = -0.079NS) is not significant. These results offer support to hypotheses H1 through H4 and H5 being rejected. On the other hand, age does not have any relationship with farmers' knowledge of floods. Our study results have important policy suggestions for governments and other stakeholders to consider in order to make useful policies for the ecosystem. The study will aid in the implementation of effective monitoring and public policies to promote integrated and sustainable development, as well as how to minimize the impacts of floods on farmers' lives and save the ecosystem and food.
本研究在一个主要农业地区开展,以调查农民关于洪水对其农业生产生活、粮食安全、可持续发展及风险评估影响的本土知识。在本研究中,采用原始数据来分析情况。向农民发放了半结构化问卷。我们收集了一个横截面数据集,并应用偏最小二乘结构方程模型(PLS - SEM)双阶段混合模型来检验所提出的假设,并根据社会、经济和技术因素的标准化重要性对其进行排名。结果显示,农民与适应策略、粮食安全、风险评估和生计资产相关的知识是最显著的预测因素。农民需要具备足够的洪水知识,这有助于他们采取适当的措施。使用PLS - SEM双阶段混合模型来检验所有变量之间的关系,结果表明因变量、自变量和控制变量之间存在显著关系。PLS - SEM直接路径分析显示,适应策略(b = -0.155;p = 0.001)、粮食安全(b = 0.343;p = 0.001)、生计资产(b = 0.273;p = 0.001)、风险评估(b = 0.147;p = 0.006)以及洪水知识因子(FKF)的β值具有统计学意义,而可持续发展(b = -0.079,不显著)则不显著。这些结果支持了假设H1至H4,而假设H5被拒绝。另一方面,年龄与农民的洪水知识没有任何关系。我们的研究结果为政府和其他利益相关者提供了重要的政策建议,以便他们考虑制定有利于生态系统的有用政策。该研究将有助于实施有效的监测和公共政策,以促进综合和可持续发展,以及如何将洪水对农民生活的影响降至最低并拯救生态系统和粮食。
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