Research on Mediating Mechanisms and the Impact on Food Provision Services in Poor Areas from the Perspective of Stakeholders

Tianwei Geng, Hai Chen, Di Liu, Qinqin Shi and Hang Zhang
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Tianwei Geng: College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an 710127, China
Hai Chen: College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an 710127, China
Di Liu: College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an 710127, China
Qinqin Shi: College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an 710127, China
Hang Zhang: Institute of Land and Urban-Rural Development, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou 310018, China

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 19, 1-18

Abstract: Exploring and analyzing the common demands and behavioral responses of different stakeholders is important for revealing the mediating mechanisms of ecosystem service (ES) and realizing the management and sustainable supply of ES. This study took Mizhi County, a poverty-stricken area on the Loess Plateau in China, as an example. First, the main stakeholders, common demands, and behavioral responses in the food provision services were identified. Second, the relationship among stakeholders was analyzed. Finally, this study summarized three types of mediating mechanisms of food provision services and analyzed the influence of the different types of mediating mechanisms. The main conclusions are as follows: (1) Five main stakeholders in the study area were identified: government, farmers, enterprises, cooperatives, and middlemen. (2) Increasing farmers’ income is the common demand of most stakeholders in the study area, and this common demand has different effects on the behavioral responses of different stakeholders. (3) There are three types of mediating mechanisms in the study area: government + farmers mediating corn and mutton, government + enterprises mediating millet, and government + cooperatives mediating apples. On this basis, the effects of the different types of mediating mechanisms on variations in food yield, and trade-offs and synergies in typical townships, were analyzed.

Keywords: food provision services; mediating mechanism; stakeholders; common demand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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