Song Yang, Cui Haixia, Zong Yixiang, Yin Shi
College of Economics and Management, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, 071000, China.
Sci Rep. 2024 Oct 4;14(1):23103. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-73858-y.
Farmers' participation in pesticide packaging waste (PPW) governance is important for improving agricultural pollution and achieving sustainable agricultural development. By incorporating the theory of planned behavior, value-belief-norm theory, cognition and behavior theory etc., we construct a theoretical model comprising "ecoliteracy-farmers' WTP in PPW governance-participation in PPW governance behavior." This study investigates how ecoliteracy affects farmers' participation in PPW governance and explores the mediating effect of farmers' willingness to participate (WTP) in PPW governance. We use structural equation modeling to analyze data collected from a questionnaire survey including 1118 samples of Chinese farmers. The results show that (1) Ecoliteracy significantly affects farmers' WTP in PPW governance. Ecological cognition, emotion, values, and knowledge and skills positively affect WTP in PPW governance, while ecological cognition and ecological knowledge and skills significantly affect participation in PPW governance behavior. (2) Farmers' WTP in PPW governance mediates ecoliteracy and governance participation behavior. (3) Heterogeneity analysis reveals that different planting scales, different planting categories, and receiving/not receiving government project support have different effects on farmers' participation in governance behavior. Farmers in the large-scale group are more likely to participate in governance than those in the medium- and small-scale groups, and farmers in the mixed grain and economic category are more likely to participate in governance than those in the economic and grain categories. Furthermore, farmers who receive government support are more likely to participate in governance than those who do not. Our results can serve as a policy making reference for promoting PPW governance in various regions.
农民参与农药包装废弃物（PPW）治理对于改善农业污染和实现农业可持续发展至关重要。通过纳入计划行为理论、价值-信念-规范理论、认知与行为理论等，我们构建了一个包含“生态素养-农民在PPW治理中的支付意愿-参与PPW治理行为”的理论模型。本研究调查了生态素养如何影响农民对PPW治理的参与，并探讨了农民参与PPW治理的意愿（WTP）的中介作用。我们使用结构方程模型分析了从包括1118名中国农民样本的问卷调查中收集的数据。结果表明：（1）生态素养显著影响农民在PPW治理中的WTP。生态认知、情感、价值观以及知识和技能对PPW治理中的WTP有积极影响，而生态认知和生态知识与技能显著影响参与PPW治理行为。（2）农民在PPW治理中的WTP在生态素养和治理参与行为之间起中介作用。（3）异质性分析表明，不同种植规模、不同种植类别以及是否获得政府项目支持对农民参与治理行为有不同影响。大规模组的农民比中小规模组的农民更有可能参与治理，粮经混合类别的农民比经济类和粮食类别的农民更有可能参与治理。此外，获得政府支持的农民比未获得支持的农民更有可能参与治理。我们的研究结果可为各地区促进PPW治理提供政策制定参考。
