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Journal of Desert Research ›› 2023, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (6): 79-88.DOI: 10.7522/j.issn.1000-694X.2023.00045

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Research on the influencing factors of farmers' grazing behavior based on the theory of expectation

Caixia Hou(), Juanjuan Zhang, Mengmeng Zhang, Mengjie Zhang, Xiaojie Zhang   

  1. Laboratory of Neuromanagement in Engineering,School of Management,Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology,Xi'an 710055,China
  • Received:2022-11-19 Revised:2023-05-04 Online:2023-11-20 Published:2023-11-30

Abstract:

The grazing behavior of farmers is one of the most important factors leading to land desertification, which reveals that the influencing factors of farmers' grazing behavior have an important impact on the restoration of ecological environment. The grazing behavior decisions of farmers are not only affected by livelihood capital and ecological anxiety, but also affected by farmers' predictions of future grassland ecological environment and ecological compensation policy. In order to explore the influencing factors and mechanism behind farmers' grazing behavior, this article adopts the sample survey data of farmers in Yanchi County of Ningxia, based on the expectation theory, explores the mechanism of the livelihood capital and ecological anxiety on farmers' grazing behavior, and investigates the effects of ecological environment prediction and ecological compensation policy prediction on livelihood capital and ecological anxiety on farmers' grazing behavior. The results show that livelihood capital has a significant positive effect on grazing behavior of farmers. Ecological anxiety has a significant positive effect on grazing behavior of farmers. Farmers' prediction of future ecological compensation policy has a significant positive effect on financial capital, natural capital and material capital and farmers' grazing behavior. The prediction of farmers' future ecological environment has a significant positive impact on the relationship between ecological anxiety and farmers' grazing behavior.

Key words: farmers, grazing behavior, ecological anxiety, ecological environment prediction, ecological compensation policy prediction

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