[1]YANG Zhaoxi,YANG Gangqiao,WANG Wenxiong,et al.Mechanism of Farmers’ Participation Behavior in Rural Land Consolidation Projects Under the Perspective of Social Capital[J].Research of Soil and Water Conservation,2017,24(03):288-294,300.
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Research of Soil and Water Conservation[ISSN 1005-3409/CN 61-1272/P] Volume:
24
Number of periods:
2017 03
Page number:
288-294,300
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Public date:
2017-06-28
- Title:
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Mechanism of Farmers’ Participation Behavior in Rural Land Consolidation Projects Under the Perspective of Social Capital
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YANG Zhaoxi, YANG Gangqiao, WANG Wenxiong, ZHAO Wei, YANG Fan, XU Wen
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College of Public Administration, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Keywords:
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land consolidation; participation behavior; rural land consolidation; social capital; farmers
- CLC:
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F301.2
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- Abstract:
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Study of the behavior mechanism of farmers’ participation in Rural Land Consolidation (RLC) projects is of great significance to effectively mobilize the enthusiasm of farmers and promote the healthy and sustainable development of RLC. We used the ‘social capital’ as the theoretical guidance to study farmer’s social capital from four aspects of trust, interaction, networks, norms, and calculated the social capital index through the factor analysis, and revealed the relationship between social capital and the farmers’ participation in RLC using Logistic regression analysis based on farmers in Hubei Province and Hu’nan Province grain producing counties (districts) for access to questionnaire survey. The results showed that social trust factor, political trust factor, situation interaction factor, inner interaction factor, social network factor, social norm factor had different degrees of positive influence on behavior of farmers’ participation in RLC projects. The main reasons for the low level of farmers’ participation in RLC projects are that level of political trust is not high, and the situation interaction is not enough. Then the factors affecting farmers’ participation include low level of farmers’ social network, shortage of a certain social norms in the village and lacks of social trust and certain endogenous interaction. Therefore, at present, the farmers’ social capital should be promoted in many ways so as to improve the enthusiasm and degree of participation of farmers in the RLC projects.