ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Social Movements, Institutions and Governance
Volume 9 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2025.1556958
This article is part of the Research TopicRegenerative Agriculture and Support in Changing Policy Environments: Farmers’ Rights, Contract Farming, and Navigating towards Sustainable PracticesView all 8 articles
A study of the impact of policy-based agricultural insurance on farmers' willingness to adopt pro-environmentally production behaviors: Evidence from Jiangxi Province in China
Provisionally accepted
- 1Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China
- 2Jiangxi Institute of Scientific and Technological Information, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China
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The problem of agricultural non-point source pollution in China seriously affects the sustainability of grain production and poses a great threat to food security. The key to solving the problem of agricultural non-point source pollution is to change farmers' past agricultural production methods at the source of production and make them adopt pro-environmental agricultural production behaviors. Policy-based agricultural insurance can incentivize farmers' willingness to adopt pro-environmental production behaviors by reducing their production risks and protecting their agricultural income. Based on the theory of farmers' behavior and the theory of planned behavior, this paper empirically analyzes the influence mechanism of policy-based agricultural insurance on farmers' willingness to adopt proenvironmental production behaviors in Jiangxi Province, China, through the establishment of the OLS model and the Ordered-Logit model. In addition, this paper also explores the mediating roles of planting scale, planting structure and risk attitude through the mediating effect model and Bootstrap method. The results of this paper show that policy-based agricultural insurance can effectively stimulate farmers' willingness to adopt pro-environmental production behaviors, while the planting scale and risk attitude play a mediating role in this process. Based on the results of the study, this paper suggests that the government should continue to optimize the policy-based agricultural insurance products, expand the coverage, improve the payout process, increase the payout capacity, and enhance its stimulating effect on farmers' willingness to adopt pro-environmental production behaviors.
Keywords: Agricultural non-point source pollution, policy-based agricultural insurance, proenvironmental production behavior, Influence mechanism, Sustainability of food production
Received: 07 Jan 2025; Accepted: 28 Apr 2025.
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* Correspondence: Kai Hu, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China
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