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Risk preferences and the low-carbon agricultural technology adoption: Evidence from rice production in China

Hui Mao, Yurong Quan, Yong Fu

Journal of Integrative Agriculture · 2023

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Climate change which is mainly caused by carbon emissions is a global problem affecting the economic development and well-being of human society. Low-carbon agriculture is of particular significance in slowing down global warming and reaching the goal of “carbon peak and carbon neutrality”. Therefore, taking straw incorporation as an example, this paper aims to investigate the impact of risk preferences on farmers’ low-carbon agricultural technology (LCAT) adoption. Based on a two-phase micro-survey data of 1,038 rice farmers in Jiangsu, Jiangxi, and Hunan provinces, this paper uses experimental economics methods to measure farmers’ risk aversion and loss aversion to obtain the real risk preferences information of the farmers. We also explore the data to examine the actual LCAT adoption be

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Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1016/j.jia.2023.07.002
Catalogue ID
SNmoht1v71-jdd46p
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