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Regular employees in agriculture: how to describe and improve their working conditions 农业正式雇员：如何描述和改善他们的工作条件

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2026-01-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2026.104036

Franziska Zimmert, Rita Saleh

Farming in Switzerland is still mainly dependent on family work. Nevertheless, non-family employment is gaining importance, and farm managers have to think about recruiting methods, since a labor shortage can be observed in this sector. Due to the lack of relevant data, little is known about the working conditions of employees in agriculture. In this paper, we descriptively compare the working conditions of non-family employees at farms to those in the hospitality sector, which has similar working conditions and is a competitor in employment for the agriculture sector. Based on this analysis, we use linear regression to examine which factors determine the duration of employment in these two sectors. We use data from a 1 % representative sample of the Swiss resident population (2015–2020), which is mainly characterized by regular employment. Hence, we provide insights into a specific, comparatively less-studied subgroup: persons who are permanent residents and therefore partially integrated into national labour market institutions. While our dataset does not capture all qualitative facets of job quality, it does measure several core dimensions consistently, including wages, contractual and actual working hours, timing of work, and indicators related to employment stability. These measurable facets provide a transparent entry point for describing job quality patterns among farm employees and situating them within broader debates on decent work and social sustainability, responding to growing attention to labor standards in agriculture. Our analyses identify four key challenges for non-family employment in the agricultural sector: the high proportion of already retired employees, low wages, long working hours and a comparatively low level of education. Further, the results suggest that a higher income and fixed working time models are positively related to longer employment duration in farming.

瑞士的农业仍然主要依靠家庭劳动。然而，非家庭就业正变得越来越重要，农场经理必须考虑招聘方法，因为在这个部门可以观察到劳动力短缺。由于缺乏相关数据，人们对农业从业人员的工作条件知之甚少。在本文中，我们描述性地比较了农场非家庭雇员的工作条件与酒店部门的工作条件，后者具有类似的工作条件，并且是农业部门就业的竞争对手。基于此分析，我们使用线性回归来检验哪些因素决定了这两个部门的就业持续时间。我们使用的数据来自瑞士常住人口（2015-2020）的1 %代表性样本，其主要特征是定期就业。因此，我们提供了对一个特定的，相对较少研究的子群体的见解：永久居民，因此部分融入国家劳动力市场机构的人。虽然我们的数据集没有捕捉到工作质量的所有定性方面，但它确实一致地测量了几个核心维度，包括工资、合同和实际工作时间、工作时间以及与就业稳定性相关的指标。这些可衡量的方面为描述农场雇员的工作质量模式提供了一个透明的切入点，并将其置于关于体面工作和社会可持续性的更广泛辩论中，以回应对农业劳动标准日益增长的关注。我们的分析确定了农业部门非家庭就业面临的四大关键挑战：退休员工比例高、工资低、工作时间长和教育水平相对较低。此外，研究结果表明，较高收入和固定工作时间模式与较长的农业就业持续时间呈正相关。

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Climate-smart agriculture and the impact of financial incentives on adoption: an econometric analysis 气候智慧型农业和财政激励对采用的影响：计量经济学分析

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2026-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2026.104035

Callum Alexander, Aiora Zabala, Andreas Kontoleon

The adoption of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices is crucial for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, enhancing resilience, and improving soil health in the U.S. agricultural sector. This study investigates the drivers of CSA adoption in U.S. farming, focusing on United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs between 2006 and 2023. Using a probit model, we evaluate the impact of state-level incentives, including crop insurance premium discounts and carbon trading schemes, and the role of climate-smart terminology. Results show that crop insurance discounts and carbon trading programs are associated with 4.3 and 6.9 percentage-point increases in adoption probability, respectively. The ‘climate-smart’ label is associated with slower adoption growth, particularly in politically conservative regions. Adoption likelihood is higher in states dominated by row and specialty crops, while larger farms show lower adoption likelihood. These findings emphasise the importance of financial incentives, regional variability, and synergistic policy framing in promoting CSA adoption within large-scale agricultural policy such as the Farm Bill in the U.S. and the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the E.U.

在美国农业领域，采用气候智能型农业（CSA）实践对于减少温室气体排放、增强抗灾能力和改善土壤健康至关重要。本研究调查了美国农业采用CSA的驱动因素，重点研究了2006年至2023年美国农业部（USDA）的项目。利用probit模型，我们评估了州一级激励措施的影响，包括作物保险保费折扣和碳交易计划，以及气候智能术语的作用。结果表明，作物保险折扣和碳交易计划分别与采用概率增加4.3和6.9个百分点相关。“气候智能型”标签与较慢的采用率增长有关，特别是在政治保守的地区。在以行作物和特种作物为主的州，采用可能性较高，而大型农场采用可能性较低。这些发现强调了财政激励、地区差异和协同政策框架在促进大规模农业政策（如美国的农业法案和欧盟的共同农业政策（CAP））中采用CSA的重要性

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Lethal violence across areas of the rural-urban continuum: Evidence from Pernambuco, Brazil 农村-城市连续体地区的致命暴力：来自巴西伯南布哥的证据

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2026-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2026.104034

Duan Vilela Ferreira , Vania Ceccato , Caroline Mota

This study examines the nature and levels of homicides in Pernambuco, a northeastern Brazilian state with a long history of rural violence. Drawing on over 19,870 homicide records (2017–2022), we use spatial data analysis techniques and Negative Binomial regression to investigate the spatiotemporal distribution of these killings. Although violence tends to be concentrated in urban centres such as the metropolitan area of Recife, its nature varies markedly across the rural–urban continuum. In remote, impoverished regions, killings often involve bladed weapons, arising from interpersonal male conflicts, but also include femicide, while, in major centres, homicides mainly arise from drug trafficking and disputes between gangs, and are often committed using firearms. Additionally, high homicide rates along state borders point to the role of cross-border interactions and economic activities in driving violence in these areas. Findings reveal the shortcomings of mainstream criminological theories in capturing the normalization of violence in contexts marked by profound socio-economic inequalities and enduring conflict. By challenging the myth of rural areas as homogeneous and inherently non-violent, the study offers a more nuanced understanding of the patterns and drivers of lethal violence in a part of the Global South that has yet to be fully explored in the international literature.

这项研究调查了巴西东北部伯南布哥州（Pernambuco）的凶杀性质和水平，该州的农村暴力历史悠久。利用2017-2022年超过19,870起杀人事件的记录，我们使用空间数据分析技术和负二项回归来调查这些杀人事件的时空分布。虽然暴力倾向于集中在城市中心，如累西腓的大都市区，但其性质在城乡连续体中差别很大。在偏远、贫困地区，杀人往往涉及有刃武器，这是由男性之间的冲突引起的，但也包括杀害妇女；而在主要中心，杀人主要是由贩毒和帮派之间的争端引起的，而且经常使用火器。此外，沿州边界的高谋杀率表明，跨境互动和经济活动在推动这些地区的暴力方面发挥了作用。调查结果揭示了主流犯罪学理论在捕捉以深刻的社会经济不平等和持久冲突为特征的背景下暴力正常化方面的缺陷。通过挑战农村地区同质性和天生非暴力的神话，该研究对全球南方部分地区致命暴力的模式和驱动因素提供了更细致的理解，这在国际文献中尚未得到充分探讨。

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Hidden hardship: everyday experiences, coping strategies, and barriers to wellbeing in rural britain 隐藏的困难：英国农村的日常经历、应对策略和健康障碍

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2026-01-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2026.104025

Stephanie Denning

Poverty in the UK is more often associated in public discourse, the media, and in policy with urban than rural areas. With the exception of notable pieces in rural geographies, research across the social sciences has also focussed more on urban than rural poverty. This is mistaken: rural poverty is a significant problem too. This paper focusses on rural hardship in the Cotswolds in the UK which is an area associated with affluence, super-rich celebrities, and royalty. Through participatory research, this paper seeks to understand how people in the North Cotswolds experience hardship, their coping strategies, and the barriers to improved wellbeing. It argues that the North Cotswolds is an area of hidden hardship which means that the rural idyll needs challenging further in public and policy discourse, which research such as this can play a role in. In doing so, this paper's primary contribution is to have developed the conceptual language of hardship. This is significant for three main reasons. First, the paper argues that the language of hardship is more accessible methodologically, and secondly, that hardship can be a more encapsulating, holistic and multidimensional term than poverty. Thirdly, by using the theoretical lens of the philosopher Spinoza and his concepts of affect, affective capacity and conatus, the paper develops an original way of understanding hardship that results in the paper putting forward a definition of hardship as being about both struggle and resilience on an ongoing daily basis rather than about an emergency one-off situation.

在英国，贫困在公共话语、媒体和政策中更多地与城市联系在一起，而不是农村地区。除了一些关于农村地区的著名研究之外，社会科学领域的研究也更多地关注城市贫困，而不是农村贫困。这是错误的：农村贫困也是一个重大问题。本文关注的是英国科茨沃尔德地区的农村困境，这是一个与富裕、超级富豪名人和皇室有关的地区。通过参与性研究，本文旨在了解北科茨沃尔德的人们如何经历困难，他们的应对策略以及改善福祉的障碍。它认为，北科茨沃尔德是一个隐藏困难的地区，这意味着农村田园诗需要在公共和政策话语中进一步挑战，这方面的研究可以发挥作用。在这样做的过程中，本文的主要贡献是开发了困难的概念性语言。这一点之所以重要，主要有三个原因。首先，本文认为，从方法上讲，“困难”一词更容易理解；其次，“困难”可以是一个比“贫困”更概括、更全面、更多维的术语。第三，通过使用哲学家斯宾诺莎的理论视角和他的情感、情感能力和conatus的概念，本文发展了一种理解困难的原创方式，从而在本文中提出了困难的定义，即在持续的日常基础上的斗争和恢复力，而不是关于紧急的一次性情况。

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Exploring farmer sentiment and decision-making on circular agricultural practices adoption in Europe: Evidence from Italy, Norway and the UK 探索欧洲采用循环农业实践的农民情绪和决策：来自意大利、挪威和英国的证据

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2026-01-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2026.104050

Ffion Evans , James Gibbons , Luciana Bava , Dave Chadwick , Stefania Colombini , Valborg Kvakkestad , Lampros Lamprinakis , Vibeke Lind , Martina Pavesi , Prysor Williams , Sophie Wynne-Jones

Transitioning towards more circular farming systems, which prioritise using renewable and recycled resources to reduce reliance on external inputs, offers potential to improve nutrient cycling, enhance farm profitability and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. However, widespread adoption remains limited. To support the wider adoption of circular farming practices across diverse rural and agroecological settings, we examined how psychological, contextual and motivational factors shape farmers’ sentiment and decision-making. A mixed-methods approach—combining sentiment and thematic analysis—was applied to interviews and focus groups with 96 farmers and industry stakeholders across Italy, Norway and the UK. Sentiment towards circular farming practices varied across national contexts, with UK farmers expressing more positive views overall than Norwegian farmers, and Italian farmers positioned in between. These differences reflected how well practices aligned with existing knowledge, values and farming systems, while negative sentiment was primarily associated with policy impracticalities, investment costs and local constraints, highlighting key political and structural barriers to adoption. The findings underscore the need to align circular strategies with local contexts. To support wider adoption, we recommend (1) enhancing psychological capability (e.g. aligning practices with farmers’ knowledge): through a flexible ‘toolbox’ of practices; (2) addressing physical opportunity barriers via co-designed, locally-adapted policies; and (3) strengthening reflective motivation by communicating and deliberating the broader co-benefits of circular practices. These informed insights provide more effective and inclusive strategies for sustainable agriculture and rural development across Europe.

向更循环的农业系统过渡，优先使用可再生和回收资源，以减少对外部投入的依赖，有可能改善养分循环，提高农场盈利能力和减少温室气体排放。然而，广泛采用仍然有限。为了支持在不同的农村和农业生态环境中更广泛地采用循环农业实践，我们研究了心理、背景和动机因素如何影响农民的情绪和决策。一种结合情感和主题分析的混合方法被应用于访谈和焦点小组，涉及意大利、挪威和英国的96名农民和行业利益相关者。对循环农业实践的看法因国家而异，英国农民总体上比挪威农民表达了更积极的看法，意大利农民介于两者之间。这些差异反映了实践与现有知识、价值观和农业系统的契合程度，而负面情绪主要与政策不切实际、投资成本和地方限制有关，突出了采用的主要政治和结构性障碍。调查结果强调了将循环战略与当地情况结合起来的必要性。为了支持更广泛的采用，我们建议(1)增强心理能力（例如，将实践与农民的知识结合起来）：通过灵活的实践“工具箱”；(2)通过共同设计、因地制宜的政策解决物理机会障碍；(3)通过沟通和审议循环实践的更广泛的共同利益来加强反思动机。这些明智的见解为整个欧洲的可持续农业和农村发展提供了更有效和更具包容性的战略。

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Barriers to access to healthcare service in rural Ontario: Qualitative study through the lens of the right to development 安大略省农村地区获得保健服务的障碍：从发展权的角度进行质的研究

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2026-01-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2026.104024

Amal Jawad , Bonny Ibhawoh , Lisa Schwartz , Andrew Kapoor

The Right to Development provides the central framework for this study, guiding an examination of barriers to healthcare access in Oxford County, a rural region of Ontario, Canada. The Right to Development emphasises that health is a collective entitlement shaped by structural conditions and shared social responsibilities. Using this perspective, the study argues that individual rights to healthcare are insufficient for understanding or addressing rural inequities. Drawing on twenty-five semi-structured interviews conducted between January and April 2025 and analysed through Braun and Clarke's reflexive thematic approach, three themes were identified. Structural barriers include infrastructure gaps, physician shortages, limitations in walk-in clinics, and prolonged wait times. Second, systemic inefficiencies arise from centralised service organisation and administrative shortcomings that leave some residents temporarily uninsured. Third, the individual appraisal highlights the importance of provider diversity, participation and inclusion, and community engagement for meaningful access. The primary contribution of this study is the development of the Collective Right to Development policy, which applies and extends the Right to Development to rural health systems. The Collective Right to Development policy identifies three collective entitlements required for equitable healthcare: structural provision and service diversity; institutionalised participation and community governance; and conditions that support dignity and well-being. These entitlements translate the Right to Development principles into concrete obligations and reveal rural health inequities as collective deprivations embedded in structural design. The absence of Right to Development–based collective principles in Canadian health policy undermines accountability, neglects rural system strengthening, and perpetuates inequitable access for underserved populations.

《发展权》为这项研究提供了核心框架，指导对加拿大安大略省农村地区牛津县获得医疗保健的障碍进行审查。发展权强调，健康是一项集体权利，由结构条件和共同的社会责任决定。从这一角度来看，该研究认为，个人享有医疗保健的权利不足以理解或解决农村不平等问题。根据2025年1月至4月期间进行的25次半结构化访谈，并通过Braun和Clarke的反思性主题方法进行分析，确定了三个主题。结构性障碍包括基础设施差距、医生短缺、无预约诊所的限制以及等待时间延长。其次，集中化的服务机构和管理缺陷导致一些居民暂时没有保险，从而导致系统性效率低下。第三，个人评估强调了提供者多样性、参与和包容以及社区参与对有意义的获取的重要性。这项研究的主要贡献是制定了集体发展权政策，该政策将发展权适用并扩展到农村卫生系统。集体发展权政策确定了公平保健所需的三项集体权利：结构性提供和服务多样性；制度化的参与和社区治理；以及支持尊严和福祉的条件。这些权利将发展权原则转化为具体义务，并揭示了农村卫生不公平现象是结构性设计中的集体剥夺。加拿大卫生政策中缺乏以发展权为基础的集体原则，破坏了问责制，忽视了加强农村系统，并使服务不足的人口无法公平获得服务。

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Building community capitals through stakeholder engagement in a pollinator garden of a regional Australian university: A Business School initiative 通过利益相关者参与澳大利亚地区大学传粉者花园建立社区资本：商学院倡议

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2026-01-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2026.104009

Lucia Wuersch, Alain Neher, Felicity Small

This qualitative study aims to gain deeper insights into stakeholder engagement within a pollinator garden project at a regional Australian university, initiated by its Business School, and to explore its contributions to community capitals and environmental sustainability. Interviews with volunteers around a ‘Planting Day’ inform the emerging themes on stakeholder engagement contributing to the wider community. As the major finding, our university pollinator garden makes seven ‘contributions’ – natural, cultural, human, social, political, financial, and built – to the local community in regional Australia. These contributions jointly build the emerging ‘town and gown’ model. It adds to community development theory and can guide discussions with organisational practitioners leading grassroots initiatives to enhance organisational citizenship behaviour. In conclusion, by bridging ‘town and gown’, a pollinator garden at a regional university can connect the local community to the global world.

本定性研究旨在深入了解澳大利亚一所地区大学商学院发起的传粉者花园项目中利益相关者的参与情况，并探讨其对社区资本和环境可持续性的贡献。在“植树节”期间对志愿者进行采访，了解有关利益相关者参与为更广泛的社区做出贡献的新主题。作为主要发现，我们大学的传粉者花园为澳大利亚地区的当地社区做出了七项“贡献”——自然、文化、人类、社会、政治、金融和建筑。这些贡献共同构建了新兴的“城镇与大学”模式。它增加了社区发展理论，并可以指导与领导基层倡议的组织实践者的讨论，以增强组织公民行为。总之，通过“城镇与大学”的桥梁，地区大学的传粉者花园可以将当地社区与全球联系起来。

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Life, land and sea: Socioecological transitions in Shetland 生命、陆地和海洋：设得兰群岛的社会生态变迁

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2026-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2026.104048

Ilona Kater , Andrew Garrick

Understanding how human societies and environments have co-evolved over long time periods is critical for informing sustainable resource management today. Using the Shetland Islands, UK, as a case study, this paper applies a socioecological lens to trace changing patterns of resource use from the post-glacial period to the present. Drawing on archaeological, historical, and geographical sources, we detail Shetland's socioecological transitions through a narrative approach, followed by a four-part analytical framework that captures key patterns, processes, and legacies in land-use change. It is shown that, despite relatively limited resources, Shetland has supported communities with diverse forms of resource use, including self-sufficient communities, trade-dependent societies, significant agrarian land use, pastoral communities, fishing-based economies, and feudal land management regimes. The analysis demonstrates that many ecological challenges on the islands derive not from fixed environmental limits, but from past societal decisions and policy regimes. Three key considerations for future resource management in Shetland that emerge from this history are outlined. More broadly, we argue that a deep historical perspective highlights both vulnerabilities and adaptive possibilities, and underscores the need for governance and planning rooted in place-specific socioecological realities. Such an approach can help communities everywhere navigate uncertainty and pursue pathways that are socially just, ecologically resilient, and sustainable over the long term.

了解人类社会和环境是如何在很长一段时间内共同进化的，对于今天的可持续资源管理至关重要。本文以英国设得兰群岛（Shetland Islands）为例，运用社会生态学视角追踪后冰川期至今的资源利用变化模式。利用考古、历史和地理资料，我们通过叙述的方法详细介绍了设得兰群岛的社会生态转变，随后是一个四部分的分析框架，捕捉了土地利用变化的关键模式、过程和遗产。研究表明，尽管资源相对有限，设得兰群岛支持了各种形式的资源利用社区，包括自给自足的社区、依赖贸易的社会、大量的农业土地利用、畜牧社区、以渔业为基础的经济和封建土地管理制度。分析表明，岛屿上的许多生态挑战不是来自固定的环境限制，而是来自过去的社会决策和政策制度。本文概述了从这段历史中产生的设得兰群岛未来资源管理的三个关键考虑因素。更广泛地说，我们认为深刻的历史视角突出了脆弱性和适应性可能性，并强调了基于特定地方社会生态现实的治理和规划的必要性。这种方法可以帮助世界各地的社区应对不确定性，并寻求社会公正、生态弹性和长期可持续发展的道路。

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Customizing nature: Between wild and domesticated nature in game management in Finland and Norway 自定义自然：在芬兰和挪威的游戏管理中野生和驯化的自然之间

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2026-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2026.104041

Juha Kotilainen , Olof Stjernström

We explore the fluidness of the nature-culture dichotomy related to game management in a Nordic context. Studies have explored the problems of seeing wilderness lying outside human influence, with a focus on nature conservation, endangered species and climate systems. Our focus is not so much on wilderness as a separate spatial category but on wildness and its opposite pole, that which is not wild but tame, and the challenges that this dichotomy brings about. On the one side of the conceptual dividing line there is wild nature, on the other side notions such as tame and domesticated prevail, denoting a condition of an entity – land, animals – being non-wild. We investigate how this view of nature as wild and separate of humans is related not only to nature conservation but extends to nature that is used and exploited by humans. In addition to a social constructivist approach there is the ontological question if there is something that could be called nature that is entirely external to the human sphere of influence. The results illustrate how there is an ongoing societal process of defining the categories for what is wild and what is not, yet this does not match neatly with the social and cultural practices that are undertaken in game management on the ground. Our contribution to this debate is that we suggest a new concept of customized nature to describe a situation in which aspects of wild and non-wild merge.

我们在北欧的背景下探索与游戏管理相关的自然-文化二分法的流动性。研究探索了将荒野置于人类影响之外的问题，重点是自然保护、濒危物种和气候系统。我们关注的焦点不是作为一个单独的空间类别的荒野，而是荒野和它的对立面，不是荒野而是驯服，以及这种二分法带来的挑战。在概念分界线的一边是野生自然，另一边是驯服和驯养等概念盛行，表示一个实体——土地、动物——的非野生状态。我们调查了这种认为自然是野生的、与人类分离的观点是如何不仅与自然保护有关，而且延伸到被人类利用和开发的自然。除了社会建构主义的方法，还有一个本体论的问题，如果有什么东西可以被称为自然，完全在人类的影响范围之外。研究结果表明，定义野生动物和非野生动物类别的社会过程是如何进行的，但这与实地游戏管理中所采取的社会和文化实践并不相符。我们对这场辩论的贡献在于，我们提出了一个自定义自然的新概念，以描述野生和非野生融合的情况。

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Unlocking organic farming adoption: The role of information completeness and farmers’ individual preferences 解锁有机农业采用：信息完整性和农民个人偏好的作用

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2026-01-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2026.104013

Tuan Nguyen-Anh

This study investigates how information completeness and behavioral preferences influence smallholder farmers’ willingness to accept (WTA) compensation for adopting organic farming in Northern Vietnam. Employing a lab in the field experiment with 426 households, we measure risk aversion and time preferences using incentivized games and assess their impact via panel random effects regression. Results show that comprehensive information lowers WTA by approximately 11%, whereas risk aversion and present bias significantly increase it. This approach provides more precise behavioral measures, advancing theoretical models of technology adoption by integrating quasi-hyperbolic discounting and ambiguity aversion. The findings advocate for scalable policy interventions, including transparent extension services, tailored insurance, and front-loaded incentives to mitigate behavioral barriers. While the study’s regional focus presents a limitation, the behavioral mechanisms identified offer generalizable insights for promoting sustainable agriculture in developing economies.

本研究探讨越南北部地区小农采用有机耕作方式时，资讯完备性与行为偏好如何影响小农接受补偿的意愿。我们采用实验室对426户家庭进行了实地实验，利用激励游戏测量风险厌恶和时间偏好，并通过面板随机效应回归评估其影响。结果表明，综合信息降低了约11%的WTA，而风险规避和当前偏见显著提高了WTA。这种方法提供了更精确的行为测量，通过整合准双曲贴现和模糊厌恶来推进技术采用的理论模型。研究结果主张采取可扩展的政策干预措施，包括透明的推广服务、量身定制的保险和减轻行为障碍的前置激励措施。虽然该研究的区域重点存在局限性，但所确定的行为机制为促进发展中经济体的可持续农业提供了可推广的见解。

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