Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2021, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (12): 2423-2434.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.2021.12.23

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Relationship within capital endowment, technology cognition and farmers’ low carbon use intention of cultivated land

WU Yaqun(), DONG Jie*()   

  1. College of Public Administration, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
  • Received:2020-12-12 Online:2021-12-25 Published:2022-01-10
  • Contact: DONG Jie

Abstract:

Low carbon utilization of cultivated land is of positive significance to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and sustainable and healthy development of agriculture. In the present study, the theoretical analysis model and research hypothesis of capital endowment and farmers’ cognition were established first. Based on the survey data of 347 households in Hubei Province, China, farmers’ capital endowment and cognition of low-carbon utilization of cultivated land were measured. On this basis, Logit model, intermediary effect model and adjustment effect test method were adopted to reveal the relationship within capital endowment, technology cognition and farmers’ low-carbon use intention of cultivated land. It was shown that the capital endowment not only had a significant (at 1% level) direct positive impact on low-carbon use intention of cultivated land, but also had a significant (at 1% level) indirect positive impact via the intermediary variable of farmers’ cognition of low-carbon use of cultivated land. Environmental literacy played a positive moderating role between farmers’ self-efficacy cognition and low carbon use intention of cultivated land. Therefore, it was necessary to improve the farmers’ capital endowment from aspects of economic capital, social capital and cultural capital, to improve farmers’ awareness of low-carbon utilization of cultivated land through various channels, and to strengthen the popularization of environmental protection related knowledge to improve farmers’ environmental literacy.

Key words: capital endowment, technology cognition, low carbon utilization of cultivated land, farmers’ willingness, mediating effect model

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