The Impact of Community Capacity and Capital Endowment on Farmers'Participation in Small-scale Farmland and Water Conservancy Governance
Small-scale farmland and water conservancy facilities governance faces the dilemma of collective action,how to promote farmers to participate in small-scale farmland and water conservancy facilities governance is very important to en-sure food security.Based on micro-survey data of farmers in Hunan and Jiangxi prov-inces,this paper empirically explores the impact of community ability and capital endowment on the willingness and degree of farmers'participation in small-scale farmland and water conservancy facilities governance by establishing a two-column model.The results show that community capacity can effectively improve the degree of farmers'participation in the governance of small-scale farmland and water conser-vancy facilities;Capital endowment has a significantly positive impact on the will-ingness and degree of farmers'participation,and the impact of capital endowment in different dimensions on the willingness and degree of farmers'participation.Capital endowment plays a positive moderating role in the process that community capacity affects the willingness and degree of farmers to participate in small-scale farmland and water conservancy facilities governance.Heterogeneity analysis shows that com-munity capacity and capital endowment have a greater impact on the governance be-havior of farmers in the low degree of farmland fragmentation and plain areas.Based on this,we should pay attention to the capacity building of rural communities,con-tinuously improve the level of capital endowment of farmers,and actively eliminate the constraints of resource endowment to improve the governance level of small-scale farmland and water conservancy facilities.
community capacityendowment of capitalparticipation of farm-erssmall-scale farmland and water conservancy facilities governancetwo column model