ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Study on the Impact of Climate Change
Information Sources on Farmers’ Decisions
on Adaptive Farming Behavior: Based on 1200
Questionnaires in Shaanxi Province, China
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Land Engineering Quality Testing of Shaanxi Land Engineering Construction Group Co,Ltd., Shaanxi 710075, China
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Institute of Land Engineering and Technology, Shaanxi Provincial Land Engineering Construction Group Co,
Shaanxi 710075, China
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China Shaanxi High Standard Farmland Construction Group Co., Ltd., Shaanxi 710075, China
Submission date: 2023-05-15
Final revision date: 2023-06-17
Acceptance date: 2023-07-22
Online publication date: 2023-10-02
Publication date: 2023-11-10
Corresponding author
Yangjie Lu
China Shaanxi High Standard Farmland Construction Group Co., Ltd., China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2023;32(6):5709-5722
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ABSTRACT
Adaptive farming behavior is a key strategy for farmers to cope with climate change. This paper
aims to explore the potential impacts of climate change information sources on farmers’ adaptive
farming behavior. This paper clarifies the internal mechanism of three typical information sources,
namely government departments, scientific research institutions and neighborhood communication,
affecting farmers' adaptive farming behavior. Based on the sample data of 1200 farmers in the main
wheat producing areas of Shaanxi Province, the theoretical conjecture is empirically tested. The results
showed that the climate change information from government departments and scientific research
institutions has a significant positive impact on farmers' adaptive farming behavior, but in the case
of considering the three sources of information at the same time, the information source of scientific
research institutions has the strongest positive impact on farmers' adaptive farming behavior. After
farmers have access to climate change information exchanged by government departments, scientific
research institutions and neighbors, their differences in climate change adaptive farming behavior
mainly depend on their climate change cognition rather than subject trust factors. Formally organized
climate change information represented by government departments and scientific research institutions
has a more significant positive impact on farmers' adaptive farming behavior, but this impact depends
largely on whether the information obtained by farmers can improve their climate change awareness.