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DOI	10.1016/j.eiar.2024.107430
	Impact of specialized agricultural services on climate-smart agricultural practices: Evidence from biopesticide application in Jiangsu Province, China
	Han, Hongyun; Zou, Kai; Yuan, Zhen
发表日期	2024
ISSN	0195-9255
EISSN	1873-6432
起始页码	105
卷号	105
英文摘要	Global climate change is aggravating the occurrence of pests and diseases, however, pesticide residue caused by the abuse of chemical pesticides is emerging as a worldwide issue with a great threat to the ecological environment, human health, and food security. Biopesticide application, a component of climate-smart agricultural practices, is viewed as a vital alternative for agricultural sustainable development. Due to the additional cost attached to externalities and information insufficiency, the adoption rates of biopesticide are still quite low in most developing countries. By using panel data of 3143 rural households from 2020 to 2021 in Jiangsu Province, this paper builds a theoretical framework of whether and how specialized agricultural service (SAS) for specialized pest control affects farmers' biopesticide application, and then employs an Endogenous Switching Probit model to verify this effect and its channels empirically. The empirical results show that the SAS purchase can increase significantly the probability of smallholders' biopesticide adoption by 30.8%. Without consideration of the self-selection bias, this probability would drop to 16.2%. The potential channels of the SAS influencing farmers' biopesticide application are technology popularization (training) and machinery substitution resulting from SAS. Moreover, our findings also indicate that the effects of SAS on biopesticide adoption are heterogeneous, and vary with farmers' education level, cooperative members, and land size. This paper provides the first empirical evidence for the effect of SAS on biopesticide promotion, which is expected to contribute to agricultural sustainable development and food safety in most developing countries.
英文关键词	Specialized agricultural services; Climate-smart agricultural practices; Biopesticide application; Endogenous switching probit model; China
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS类目	Environmental Studies
WOS记录号	WOS:001174765700001
来源期刊	ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REVIEW
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/299333
作者单位	Zhejiang University
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Han, Hongyun,Zou, Kai,Yuan, Zhen. Impact of specialized agricultural services on climate-smart agricultural practices: Evidence from biopesticide application in Jiangsu Province, China[J],2024,105.
APA	Han, Hongyun,Zou, Kai,&Yuan, Zhen.(2024).Impact of specialized agricultural services on climate-smart agricultural practices: Evidence from biopesticide application in Jiangsu Province, China.ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REVIEW,105.
MLA	Han, Hongyun,et al."Impact of specialized agricultural services on climate-smart agricultural practices: Evidence from biopesticide application in Jiangsu Province, China".ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REVIEW 105(2024).