Dingde Xu

• Doctor of Geography
• Professor (Associate) at Sichuan Agricultural University

To ensure national food security, China has implemented a high-standard farmland construction policy. However, it remains unclear whether the implementation of such farmland can facilitate adjustments in farmers’ planting structures and enhance the propensity for grain cultivation. Utilizing survey data collected from 1125 farmers in Sichuan Provin...

Food security is the foundation of national security, yet few studies have explored the impact of financial literacy on foodproduction in the context of deepening rural financial development. Using data from the 2021 China Land Economy Survey, this paper theoretically and empirically analyzes the impact of factor substitution and cropping restructu...

Agricultural green production technology (AGPT) is crucial for mitigating farmland pollution and degradation, as well as promoting green agricultural development. Using data from 774 rice farmers in the 2021 China Land Economy Survey (CLES), the study analyzes the impact mechanisms and mediating pathways of farmland scale on AGPT adoption at both t...

Increased aging of the agricultural population may lead to a reconfiguration of land elements, but existing studies have not analyzed this on a plot level. China's vast hilly and mountainous regions will have a more serious impact on agricultural aging, but this context has still not received enough attention. Based on primary data from 2602 plots...

Promoting moderate-scale land management is a crucial pathway for achieving the transformation of agricultural modernization in China. Whether migrant workers with the advantage of human capital can effectively promote moderate scale management is a problem worthy of in-depth discussion. Based on survey data from three counties in Sichuan Province...

Currently, farmland abandonment has become a significant issue, resulting in reduced food production and land degradation in rural regions. In China’s agricultural sector, developing highstandard farmland has been a crucial undertaking in recent years. It has contributed significantly to improving production conditions and increasing farmers’ incom...

Pesticide application has significantly aided global agriculture, but the overuse of pesticides also poses a threat to sustainable agriculture development in the future. The application of outsourcing services in the pesticide application process is a good way to promote pesticide reduction, but the actual effect is not satisfactory. The possible r...

Abstract: [Objective] In-depth research on the impact of farming household differentiation on the non-grain conversion of cultivated land helps, optimize policy interventions, and more effectively control the trend of cultivated land non-grain conversion. [Methods] Based on the data from 1995 farming households collected in the 2020 China Rural Re...

Since the rural revival, the return of the rural labor force has become a trend. Different ways of returning to the rural labor force contain different policy implications. Based on the data of 8209 households in the China Labor Force Dynamic Survey, the probit model was used to explore the impact of long-term security in urban and rural areas on d...

Household energy consumption plays a critical role in the context of global climate change. Utilizing data from the 2018 China Social Survey (CGSS), this study empirically examined the impact of subjective socioeconomic status (SES) on household green energy consumption behaviors using probit and ordered probit models. The mechanism of influence wa...

Straw return is a crucial method for utilizing agricultural waste as a resource. Against the backdrop of increasing straw production in China, most scholars focus only on the behavioral decision of whether farmers choose to transfer land. However, few studies have touched on the specific content of the land transfer contract and its impact on farme...

The global mental health crisis presents a significant challenge to sustainable development, and this crisis is more pronounced in China's rural areas versus urban areas. Alcohol consumption has increased in rural areas with China's economic growth, but the number of studies on the relationship between farmers' alcohol consumption and their mental...

Continuous land transfer is an important direction for future agricultural policy in developing countries. However, there is little research on the impacts of land contiguity in China. Based on 2020 national micro-survey data, this paper analyzes the different focuses of land contiguity, divides contiguous transfers into connected and patchy transf...

Although China’s grain production has reached nineteen consecutive harvests, the uncertainty of the current domestic and international environment has put more pressure on further increasing grain production in the future. For the past few years, agricultural socialization services have been crucial in boosting grain production and farmers’ revenue...

Achieving the UN clean energy goal will contribute to the achievement of other sustainable development goals (SDGs). However, the low quality of the power supply is destroying global efforts to introduce clean energy. Specifically, in China, the world’s largest developing country, the rural clean energy plan has been affected by power shortages. It...

Food security is the foundation of the stable development of human society and economy, and the land use policy of a country is closely related to food security. For example, in recent years, China has implemented a large number of land use policies (such as high-standard farmland construction, one household and one field, and the separation of thr...

The growth of the agricultural economy is inseparable from agricultural investments among farmers. Sadly, Chinese farmers are generally under-invested, and the factors affecting agricultural investments need to be identified. Using data from the China Land Economic Survey (CLES) in 2021, this study examines the effects of farmers' financial literac...

There has been a discrepancy in opinions regarding the correlation between off-farm employment and the decrease in the usage of chemical fertilizers. This study considers the locational and structural attributes of non-agricultural employment within the labor force and employs the IV-Probit model to examine the causal factors behind farmers' decrea...

The mental health crisis poses a major challenge to global sustainable development. In response, the United Nations has launched an ambitious plan to “reshape the environment that affects mental health”. Clean toilets are an important measure of civilization, yet it is unclear whether they are helping to alleviate the global mental health crisis. T...

Preserving and enhancing the quality of farmland holds significant importance for ensuring food security and promoting sustainable agricultural development. Drawing on survey data collected from 2600 households engaged in rice cultivation across 13 cities in Jiangsu Province, China, this study examines the impacts of farmer ageing on farmland ecolo...

To reduce the threat of natural disasters, protect natural resources, and promote human wellbeing, Shaanxi Province, China has implemented the largest disaster resettlement project since 2011. It has moved 2.4 million people in three prefectures over 10 years. Using survey data from southern Shaanxi, China, this article measures sustainable househo...

Excessive carbon emissions are the major challenge to global sustainable development. In the context of the coronavirus pandemic, pressure on global economic growth is gradually rising, threatening established carbon reduction targets. However, the relationship between economic growth pressures and carbon emission intensity has yet to be clearly di...

As a typical green production technology, straw return affects environmental pollution control and waste recycling. However, in reality, farmers are not active in returning straw to the field. This study constructed a theoretical analysis of farmers’ straw-returning behavior under the conditions of labor aging, socialization service, and environmen...

Farmland abandonment is a pernicious environmental problem in the world. As farmers are decision-makers with regard to farmland utilization and abandonment, it is the key to study the influencing factors from the farmers’ perspective. Using the data from 540 rural households in Sichuan Province, this study analyses the impact of farmers’ differenti...

Floods pose significant threats to farmers, and engaging in effective disaster avoidance behaviors can mitigate some of these risks for farmers in flood risk areas (FRA). However, due to farmers' bounded rationality characteristics , they often have a cognitive bias of blindly overestimating or underestimating flood risk, thus failing to perform co...

Encouraging rural populations to use biogas to alleviate energy shortages and solve environmental pollution is of tremendous practical relevance. Using survey data from 540 farm families in Sichuan Province, binary and multinomial logistic regression models were utilized to investigate the effects and mechanisms of peer effects of four types of pee...

Straw used to be an important raw material for heating, cooking, and raising livestock in rural areas. However, with the development of the economy, straw burning poses a great threat to the environment. Straw return is of great significance for realizing carbon peaks and carbon neutrality because of its ecological value and economic value. Based o...

Optimizing land use structure in urban agglomerations is essential to mitigating climate change and achieving carbon neutrality. However, the studies on low-carbon (LC) land use in the urban agglomeration based on carbon neutrality are still limited and lack the consideration of the optimized land ecological benefits. To reduce land use carbon emis...

Rural domestic waste seriously pollutes the ecological environment, and it is difficult to treat with government funds alone. Therefore, it is an urgent need to establish a payment system for rural household waste management. Contingent valuation method is applied to obtain rural residents' willingness to pay for domestic waste management. Based on...

Garbage classification is significant to alleviate the pressure of household waste management in rural areas and promote green development. Based on the micro survey data of 2228 households in rural areas of Jiangsu Province, this paper discusses the impact of internet use on the garbage classification’s willingness and behavior based on the planne...

Land certification and adjustment experience, which are of great significance to strengthen farmers’ acceptance of the green production technologies (the GPTs), are important factors that affect the stability of land property. Based on the research data of 540 farmers in Sichuan, China, the probit model is used in this research to explore the effec...

Farmers' entrepreneurship is an important factor in promoting rural economic growth, yet few studies have systematically discussed the impact of financial literacy. Using the 2021 China Land Economic Survey data, this study analyzes the relationship between financial literacy and Chinese rural households' entrepreneurship from the perspective of cr...

Dear Colleagues, Since the reform and opening up, China's urban and rural areas have been undergoing rapid development and transformation driven by various social and economic policies. The interaction of urban and rural factors leads to the drastic transformation of land use in both depth and breadth. In the process of rapid transformation, rural...

Nowadays, environmental friendly agriculture has become the world trend of modern agricultural development; fertilizer reduction application is an essential way to achieve sustainable development goals. With the deepening development of the agricultural specialized division of labor and socialized services, the division of labor economy can promote...

Carbon emission reduction in agriculture is an important link to achieving green agricultural development and a rural ecological environment, and Low-Carbon Agricultural Technology (LCAT) of farmers is an important means to achieve carbon emission reduction in agriculture. Based on data obtained from a survey of 540 farmers in Sichuan province in 2...

As an important part of agricultural socialization services, outsourced machinery services are of great significance for promoting the green development of agriculture. Using the field survey data of 1080 rice growers in Sichuan Province, this paper empirically analyzes outsourced machinery services' impact and role path on farmers' green productio...

With the continuous emphasis of the country on the construction of ecological civilization, promoting the utilization of straw resources has become an important measure to achieve green agricultural development. Based on the survey data of 540 households in Sichuan Province and under the guidance of the theory of planned behavior, this paper constr...

Based on the survey data of 540 peasants in Sichuan Province, the probit and unordered multi-classification logistic model regression models were used to explore peasants’ differentiation on the transformation of willingness and behavior of land transfer and to provide a theoretical and empirical basis for promoting land intensification and large-s...

Straw returning to the field is considered a sustainable agricultural production mode that can be applied on a large scale. However, Straw returning to the field of Chinese farmers has the characteristics of “high willingness, low behavior”. Based on the survey data of 540 farmers in the main rice-producing areas of Sichuan Province, from the persp...

With rapidly advancing urbanization and agricultural modernisation in China, some of the rural labour force has transferred to urban non-agricultural sectors for employment, resulting in the transformation of rural land-use patterns. Based on data from the China Labour-Force Dynamics Surveys from 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018, IV-Probit and IV-Tobit mo...

Under the background of carbon peak and carbon neutralization, the transformation and upgrading of energy consumption structure is crucial to achieve sustainable environmental development. Based on the questionnaire data of 1080 farmers in Sichuan province in 2021, the IV-Probit model was used to explore the impact of labor from off-farm employment...

Solar energy is vital for solving the problems of rural environmental pollution and energy poverty. Using the sample from China, the study combines the theory of conformity tendencies and the theory of strong-weak ties, and utilizes the Logistic model and propensity score matching (PSM) method to investigate the conformity tendencies in farmers’ ad...

Guiding farmers to respond to climate change is of great significance to China's adaptation to climate change and global sustainable development. Using survey data of 540 farmers from Sichuan Province, the binary probit model and propensity score matching (PSM) method were used to analyze the peer effects on farmers' response to climate change. The...

Clean energy is expected to both reduce carbon emissions and enhance well-being, and ‘Internet + energy consumption’ has become a key to facilitating the transformation of energy use for cooking among Chinese farmers. However, few studies have analyzed the relationship between the two based on large-scale micro-data systems. Based on data from the...

For global sustainable development, clean energy and excellent health are critical challenges. Cooking with clean energy may play an important role in the health of household members. Multi-layer data of “individual-household-village” was created based on the 2016 China Labor Force Dynamics Survey. The Probit model was used in this study to investi...

From the perspective of conformity tendency, based on 540 farmers' data in Sichuan Province, China, the study used the probability score matching (PSM) model and mediator model to explore the role of four types of peers' straw returning behavior on farmers' preferences to implement straw returning and the realization paths. It was found that (1) fa...

Land transfer is an essential prerequisite for moderate-scale operation. Using the internet realizes the rational allocation of resources and promotes the development of agriculture and rural areas. Based on the data of 8198 farmers surveyed in the 2016 China Labor Dynamics Survey, the conditional mixed estimation method (CMP) was used to analyze h...

Recycle behavior of agricultural film (RBAF) plays an important role in protecting the ecological environment of farmland. Improving RBAF has become an urgent choice for agricultural countries to achieve sustainable development. Construction of high-standard farmland (CHSF) is defined as the artificial improvement of farmland facilities and conside...

It's the direction of all humankind's joint efforts to develop clean cooking fuels and reduce carbon emissions vigorously. While most studies found that householder and family characteristics influence household cooking fuel choice, few studies focus on the relationship between labor transfer and the choice of clean cooking fuels. Based on the thre...

Agricultural low-carbon emission reduction is an essential part of China's ecological civilization construction. Farmers' low-carbon agricultural technology (LCAT) adoption has become an important means to achieve agricultural low-carbon emission reduction. Based on the survey data of 1080 farmers in Sichuan Province, farmers' LCAT adoption has bee...

It is of great significance for global environmental governance to guide farmers to effectively perceive climate change. Based on the survey data of 540 farmers in Sichuan Province, China, this study used binary Logit model and Multinomial Logistic Regression model to explore the effects of farmers’ space-time perception of climate change and their...

The deepening of rural population aging and the lack of labor transfer cause the phenomenon of land abandonment to become more serious, which threatens regional and even national food security. Based on the survey data of 540 farmers in Sichuan Province, the theoretical analysis framework of land attachment, intergenerational difference and land ab...

Encouraging farmers to respond to climate change is very important for agricultural production and environmental governance. Based on the data of 540 farmers in Sichuan Province, China, the effects of conformity tendencies on farmers’ adaptive behavior decisions to climate change were analyzed using the binary logistic model and propensity score ma...

While most studies focus on the impact characteristics of farmers and family economic traits have on participation in rural environmental improvement, few studies focus on the relationship between farmers’ environmental awareness and rural residential environment improvement. Based on the survey data of 200 farmers in Sichuan Province, this paper d...

Existing studies on disaster-risk management from the humanistic perspective have focused on disaster-risk perception as the starting point and ignored the important role of risk communication in shaping individual risk perception and changing behavioural responses. Taking Sichuan Province―a typical disaster-prone province in China―as an example an...

Agricultural emission reduction is a key objective associated with sustainable agricultural development and a meaningful way to slow down global warming. Based on the comprehensive estimation of agricultural carbon emissions, this study applied the traditional spatial Durbin model (SDM) to analyze the type of regional emission reduction interaction...

A lack of adequate exercise threatens human health, weakening human capital accumulation. The relationship between exercise and income has become the focus of attention in health economics. In terms of reducing body weight and improving physical fitness, diet and physical exercise are intertwined and become effective ways to shape a healthy state....

For people in earthquake-poverty areas, taking effective disaster preparedness is the key to reduce the loss of life and property. Based on the survey data of 327 residents in Wenchuan and Lushan County, Sichuan earthquake-stricken areas in 2019, the research analyzed the influence of peer effects on disaster preparedness and its mechanism by using...

How to protect the ecological environment is an important international issue for achieving the sustainable development goals. Using survey data of 2628 farmers in 52 administrative villages in 13 prefecture-level cities of the China Land Economic Survey in 2020, probit and multinomial logistic regression models were used to explore the influence o...

In hilly and mountainous areas of China, landslides are a common geological hazard that threatens agricultural production and has a profound impact on farmers’ production behavior. This study aims to understand the natural factors and internal logical mechanisms that lead to farmland abandonment. More specifically, based on a sustainable livelihood...

Straw return is a kind of agricultural cleaner production technology. It can not only reduce environmental pollution caused by straw burning, but also help to improve soil conditions. However, few studies focus on the impact of increasingly active land transfer on farmers' willingness to pay for straw return. This study had a theoretical framework...

Northern Ghana is noted for its significant contribution to the food basket in Ghana. Farmers in the region suffer severely from extreme climatic conditions, with floods among the most devastating disasters. This study uses binary logistic regression model and the Poisson count model to address this threat to food security by analyzing the nexus be...

The research on rural hollowing is necessary for policy making related to rectifying hollow villages in the Rural Revitalization Strategy. In this context, Sichuan was chosen as a typical region to explore the spatial–temporal features and relevant factors of rural hollowing. The results show that (1) from 2010 to 2018, rural hollowing shows a down...

This study examined time-use in off-farm employment of female and male laborers from mountain and upland areas in Sichuan, China. The researchers conducted a tracking survey of 400 households in 2008 and 2012. We calculated the probabilities of rural laborer involving in one of four categories of employment (i.e., on-farm, < 0.5 year off-farm emplo...

In the context of the Internet power strategy, "Internet + agriculture" has gradually become a key force in realizing agricultural modernization. Based on the data of the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey 2012, 2014, and 2016, this paper uses conditional mixed process (CMP) to solve the endogeneity problem and tests the impact and mechanism of Inte...

Groundwater protection is essential for global sustainable development. Due to the lack of motivation among farmers to build harmless disposal facilities for livestock excrement, there is a huge challenge surrounding groundwater protection, which also threatens the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: “clean water and sanitat...

(Motivation) With the transfer of labor force and the continuous improvement of household income, the household energy consumption structure is also changing. (Gaps) However, few studies have explored the correlations between labor off-farm employment (LOE) and farmers’ cooking clean energy (CCE) consumption. (Methodologies) Using survey data of 81...

Poverty alleviation is the first battle to realize the rural revitalization strategy in China, and research on the sustainable livelihood of rural households is of great significance to solving the problem of rural poverty. Based on the sustainable livelihood framework, the reasonable scale and structure of fiscal expenditure is an inevitable requi...

The tendency to conform with peers, and learning by imitation, have become new influencing factors that affect farmers' purchases of policy-based planting agricultural insurance. Based on the survey data of 540 farmers in Sichuan Province in 2021, this study empirically analyzed the impact of peer effects on farmers' purchases of policy-based plant...

Flooding is Ghana's most occurrent natural disaster, with Accra, the capital city and central economic hub experiencing the highest flood incidence and the effects on lives and properties. With the increasing trend of data on rainfall above 20 mm (heavy rain) in Accra from 1980 to 2020, a high possibility of future flood hazards has been projected,...

In-depth analysis of spatial and temporal variations in the ecological efficiency of agricultural land has important theoretical and practical significance in achieving the efficient utilization of agricultural land, the coordinated development of natural resources and the environment, and the formulation of sustainable agricultural development pol...

It is of great significance to explore the influencing factors of land flow to promote moderate-scale agricultural operation. However, few studies have explored the quantitative influences of land attachment and intergenerational difference on land transfer. Based on the survey data of 540 rural households in Sichuan Province, this study uses facto...

Waste classification is an important part of the renovation of rural human settlements, and the renovation of rural human settlements is also of great significance to global sustainable development. Therefore, it is of the utmost importance to study the factors that affect the classification behavior for promoting waste classification behavior. How...

Encouraging rural residents to adopt biogas is of great practical significance in tackling environmental degradation in China. Based on the survey data of 540 rural households in Sichuan Province, China, this paper studies the peer effects of biogas adoption in rural households, focusing on the influence of relatives and friends on the biogas adopt...

Rural family differentiation is an important perspective to analyze farmers' behavior and poverty. Based on the data of 1673 farm households from rural field survey in 2019 in Hubei Province of China, this paper examines the main influencing factors of farm household differentiation on farm household poverty vulnerability from the perspective of th...

Special Issue "Livelihoods Resilience and Sustainable Rural Development" for International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (SSCI/SCI, JCR Q1, IF=3.39). For more information, please see https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/LRSRD.