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DOI	10.1016/j.agee.2019.106715
	How does smallholder farming practice and environmental awareness vary across village communities in the karst terrain of southwest China?
	Oliver, David M.1; Zheng, Ying 2; Naylor, Larissa A.2; Murtagh, Madeleine 1; Waldron, Susan 2; Peng, Tao 3
通讯作者	Oliver, David M.
来源期刊	AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT
ISSN	0167-8809
EISSN	1873-2305
出版年	2020
卷号	288
英文摘要	Worldwide, karst terrain is highly sensitive to human activity due to extensive areas of thin soil and rapid water flow to groundwater. In the southwest China karst region, poor farming decisions can promote land degradation and reduce water quality with negative consequences for livelihoods in a region where farmers already suffer from the highest national poverty rates. Targeting management advice to farmers through knowledge exchange and decision support can help alleviate land use impacts on the karst environment but first requires baseline knowledge of how local farming communities understand and approach soil and water management. We used a catchment-wide survey (n = 312 individuals in seven villages) to investigate differences in environmental awareness, catchment understanding, and farming practices amongst farmers and community leaders in a typical karst catchment in southwest China. Age, gender and village of residence of farmers showed an association with the type of challenges perceived to be most serious. Access to labour, issues of water quantity and/or quality affecting irrigation, and fertiliser costs were recognised as being particularly problematic for the viability of farming. Sources of information used to learn about farming practices, the environment and fertiliser use were more diverse for younger (< 40 yr old) farmers and levels of training and acquired knowledge regarding land management practices varied significantly between villages in the catchment. The identification of significant associations between villages or sample demographics, and a variety of questions designed to understand farmer attitudes and their environmental awareness, provide clearer insight upon which knowledge exchange and training programmes can be co-designed with catchment stakeholders. This has the potential to lead to improved farming practices with co-benefits for farmers and the environment; helping sustain ecosystem services for impoverished communities in fragile karst ecosystems.
英文关键词	Environmental awareness Farmer surveys Karst critical zone Knowledge exchange Soil and water management
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	Scotland ; Peoples R China
开放获取类型	Green Accepted, Green Published, hybrid
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000500217500007
WOS关键词	FERTILIZER USE ; ROCKY DESERTIFICATION ; NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT ; LAND-USE ; WATER ; FARMERS ; BEHAVIOR ; KNOWLEDGE ; AREAS ; PRODUCTIVITY
WOS类目	Agriculture, Multidisciplinary ; Ecology ; Environmental Sciences
WOS研究方向	Agriculture ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
EI主题词	2020-02-01
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/312723
作者单位	1.Univ Stirling, Fac Nat Sci, Biol & Environm Sci, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland; 2.Univ Glasgow, Sch Geog & Earth Sci, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland; 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geochem, State Key Lab Environm Geochem, Puding Karst Ecosyst Res Stn, Puding 562100, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Oliver, David M.,Zheng, Ying,Naylor, Larissa A.,et al. How does smallholder farming practice and environmental awareness vary across village communities in the karst terrain of southwest China?[J],2020,288.
APA	Oliver, David M.,Zheng, Ying,Naylor, Larissa A.,Murtagh, Madeleine,Waldron, Susan,&Peng, Tao.(2020).How does smallholder farming practice and environmental awareness vary across village communities in the karst terrain of southwest China?.AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT,288.
MLA	Oliver, David M.,et al."How does smallholder farming practice and environmental awareness vary across village communities in the karst terrain of southwest China?".AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT 288(2020).