Ruofang Luan , Gaohui Wen , Xianhui Hu , Xiaxia Lin , Chaozheng Zhang
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Abstract
Agricultural nonpoint pollution (ANP) increasingly threatens cultivated land sustainability, necessitating precise eco-compensation mechanisms to incentivize farmers’ adoption of cultivated land protection (CLP) practices. Using choice experiment and a random parameter logit model with 600 farmers in Changde City, China, this study integrates capital-habitus framework to analyze willingness to accept compensation (WTA) drivers. The results reveal that: (1) Key CLP practices, reducing chemical fertilizer or pesticide application, adopting soil testing-fertilization technology, full waste recycling, income and ecological awareness, significantly increase farmers’ WTA for CLP; (2) Capital endowment critically influenced preferences: households with higher proportions of laborers and greater reliance on kinship networks exhibited reduced compensation acceptance tendencies. Conversely, agricultural producers who participated in a greater number of agrotechnical training courses were significantly more willing to engage in CLP compensation practices. (3) The total eco-compensation for CLP ranges from RMB 3393.17/hm2 to RMB 5343.17/hm2. Moreover, different selection attributes correspond to different eco-compensation amounts. This study recommends implementing tiered compensation schemes with bundled incentives, augmenting farmers’ capital endowments, and raising ecological cognition to optimize engagement in arable land protection. The proposed framework offers a transferable paradigm for harmonizing agricultural productivity with environmental stewardship in smallholder-dominated agricultural systems, providing actionable insights for policy formulation in China and other developing regions facing the productivity-ecosystem preservation preservation trade-off.
期刊介绍：
The ultimate aim of Ecological Indicators is to integrate the monitoring and assessment of ecological and environmental indicators with management practices. The journal provides a forum for the discussion of the applied scientific development and review of traditional indicator approaches as well as for theoretical, modelling and quantitative applications such as index development. Research into the following areas will be published.
• All aspects of ecological and environmental indicators and indices.
• New indicators, and new approaches and methods for indicator development, testing and use.
• Development and modelling of indices, e.g. application of indicator suites across multiple scales and resources.
• Analysis and research of resource, system- and scale-specific indicators.
• Methods for integration of social and other valuation metrics for the production of scientifically rigorous and politically-relevant assessments using indicator-based monitoring and assessment programs.
• How research indicators can be transformed into direct application for management purposes.
• Broader assessment objectives and methods, e.g. biodiversity, biological integrity, and sustainability, through the use of indicators.
• Resource-specific indicators such as landscape, agroecosystems, forests, wetlands, etc.
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