HUBEI AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ›› 2023, Vol. 62 ›› Issue (10): 223-229.doi: 10.14088/j.cnki.issn0439-8114.2023.10.038

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The impact of rural ecological environment on farmland abandonment:Taking CHIP2018 data as an example

ZHOU Hai-wen   

  1. Institute of Natural Resources and Ecological Assessment,Chinese Academy of Natural Resources Economics, Beijing 101149, China
  • Received:2023-08-17 Published:2023-11-14

Abstract: The CHIP2018 farmers' micro data was used to study the impact of rural ecological environment quality on farmland abandonment behavior and its internal mechanism by Probit model and mesomeric effect model. The results showed that the improvement of ecological environment quality had a negative impact on the abandonment behavior of farmland, with significant effects in the main grain producing areas and dry land planting areas, but not significant effects in non-grain producing areas and paddy field planting areas. Mechanism analysis showed that improving the quality of rural ecological environment could reduce the farmland abandonment of farmers by reducing the rate of rural labor going out to work. To this end, it was necessary to strengthen the protection of rural ecological environment, promote the construction of a “trinity” protection system for farmland, strictly implement the accountability system, increase the cost of abandoned farmland of farmers, improve the farmland transfer system, achieve effective allocation of farmland resources, and ensure national food security.

Key words: farmland abandonment, ecological environment, labor force going out to work, food security

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