Routes Determine Results? Comparing the Performance of Differentiated Farmland Conservation Policies in China Based on Farmers’ Perceptions

Min Song (), Yuxin Ji, Mingdi Zhu, Junji Yue and Luping Yi
Additional contact information
Min Song: School of Business Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan 430073, China
Yuxin Ji: School of Business Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan 430073, China
Mingdi Zhu: School of Business Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan 430073, China
Junji Yue: School of Business Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan 430073, China
Luping Yi: College of Land Management, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China

Agriculture, 2022, vol. 12, issue 9, 1-20

Abstract: Revealing the performance of farmland conservation policies that use different types of policy instruments can provide a basis for optimizing such policies. Based on farmers’ perceptions of farmland conservation policies, this paper conducted an empirical analysis using data on 986 rural households which were collected from seven towns/districts in three provinces of China. More specifically, this paper first uses propensity score matching to analyze the impact of the comprehensive application of economic incentive and command-and-control policy instruments on farmland conservation. Then, it explores the differences between the effects of local economic incentive farmland conservation policies (FCP-LE) that employed different policy instruments. Finally, the factors affecting farmers’ perceptions of FCP-LE performance were identified. The results show that the combination of economic incentives and command-and-control policy instruments significantly improved the performance of farmland conservation policies. Furthermore, after comparing FCP-LE with payments to rural communities in the form of monetary compensation only, it is evident that a combination of FCP-LE with payments to farmers and integrated monetary compensation and social security subsidies yields better farmland conservation. Additionally, there are differences between the factors affecting farmers’ perceptions of FCP-LE performance in different areas. Our findings aim to help encourage more areas to develop diversified local incentive policies in order to conserve farmland.

Keywords: farmland conservation; differentiated policy; policy performance; farmers’ perceptions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/12/9/1442/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/12/9/1442/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jagris:v:12:y:2022:i:9:p:1442-:d:912608

Access Statistics for this article

Agriculture is currently edited by Ms. Leda Xuan

More articles in Agriculture from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().