AUTHOR=Zhang Wene , Khan Aftab , Luo Yu , Qi Tian , Zhao Minjuan 

TITLE=How do risk preferences influence forage planting behaviors among farmers in the agro-pastoral ecotone of China?

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems

VOLUME=Volume 7 - 2023

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-food-systems/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1252626

DOI=10.3389/fsufs.2023.1252626

ISSN=2571-581X

ABSTRACT=This paper analyzes the influence of risk preference on the forage planting behavior of farmers in the 2 agro-pastoral zone from three aspects: whether or not to plant forage, the scale of forage planting and 3 the duration of forage planting, and pays attention to the indirect effect of credit on the farmers' forage 4 planting behavior, as well as the heterogeneity of the influence of risk preference on the forage planting 5 behavior of farmers from the perspectives of different farming scales, types of farmers and differences 6 between generations. Experimental economics, a two-stage model is used to analyze this problem The 7 results show that: firstly, risk preference can significantly promote farmers' forage planting probability, 8 expand forage planting scale and increase forage planting duration. Specifically, when risk preference 9 increases by one unit, the probability of farmers choosing to plant forage increases by 7.8%, the 10 planting scale increases by 0.205 hm 2 , and the planting duration increases by 0.519 years. This 11 conclusion remained robust after changing the explanatory variables. Secondly, risk preference not 12 only directly affects farmers' forage planting behavior, but also indirectly affects farmers' forage 13 planting behavior through influencing farmers' participation in credit. Thirdly, heterogeneity analysis 14shows that risk preference has a significant effect on forage planting behavior among farmers with a 15 medium breeding degree, among pure farmers and concurrent farmers as well as middle-aged and 16 elderly farmers.