Organic food production among Chinese urban botanists

Organic food production is recognized by most countries and regions worldwide as a method of ecological and environmental protection because traditional agricultural practices significantly use pesticides and other chemicals, creating severe issues regarding the ecological, environmental, and food s...

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Main Authors: Yang, Qing, Wu, Mengling, Al Mamun, Abdullah, Gao, Jingzu, Masud, Muhammad Mehedi
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https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-02984-9
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spelling my.um.eprints.454022024-10-21T03:05:57Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/45402/ Organic food production among Chinese urban botanists Yang, Qing Wu, Mengling Al Mamun, Abdullah Gao, Jingzu Masud, Muhammad Mehedi HF Commerce Organic food production is recognized by most countries and regions worldwide as a method of ecological and environmental protection because traditional agricultural practices significantly use pesticides and other chemicals, creating severe issues regarding the ecological, environmental, and food safety issues. Most research on organic production focuses on large-scale organic production. This study focuses on growing noncommercial, small-scale urban organic food using the value-belief-norm (VBN) model to explore the pro-environmental behavior regarding organic food production from a psychological perspective. We employed nonprobability sampling because of the absence of a sampling framework for the target population. We obtained a sample of 621 respondents from noncommercial urban botanists in China followed by quantitative methods to examine the relationships among variables using partial least squares structural equation modeling. This study focused on organic food behavior by modifying the VBN theory, which built trust in organic food production methods and developed a structural equation model to explain the underlying motivational factors that influenced the propensity to grow organic food. Finally, the path analysis results demonstrated that all hypothesized associations were statistically significant, except for the ecological worldview on personal norms and trust in organic food production, and personal norms on intention toward organic food production. Overall, the results of this study verify the validity of the VBN theory in the context of organic food consumption as a pro-environmental behavior. Therefore, relevant departments and governments should take measures to promote organic food production in China from a psychological perspective. Springer Nature 2024-03 Article PeerReviewed Yang, Qing and Wu, Mengling and Al Mamun, Abdullah and Gao, Jingzu and Masud, Muhammad Mehedi (2024) Organic food production among Chinese urban botanists. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 11 (1). p. 464. ISSN 2662-9992, DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-02984-9 <https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-02984-9>. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-02984-9 10.1057/s41599-024-02984-9
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topic HF Commerce
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Yang, Qing
Wu, Mengling
Al Mamun, Abdullah
Gao, Jingzu
Masud, Muhammad Mehedi
Organic food production among Chinese urban botanists
description Organic food production is recognized by most countries and regions worldwide as a method of ecological and environmental protection because traditional agricultural practices significantly use pesticides and other chemicals, creating severe issues regarding the ecological, environmental, and food safety issues. Most research on organic production focuses on large-scale organic production. This study focuses on growing noncommercial, small-scale urban organic food using the value-belief-norm (VBN) model to explore the pro-environmental behavior regarding organic food production from a psychological perspective. We employed nonprobability sampling because of the absence of a sampling framework for the target population. We obtained a sample of 621 respondents from noncommercial urban botanists in China followed by quantitative methods to examine the relationships among variables using partial least squares structural equation modeling. This study focused on organic food behavior by modifying the VBN theory, which built trust in organic food production methods and developed a structural equation model to explain the underlying motivational factors that influenced the propensity to grow organic food. Finally, the path analysis results demonstrated that all hypothesized associations were statistically significant, except for the ecological worldview on personal norms and trust in organic food production, and personal norms on intention toward organic food production. Overall, the results of this study verify the validity of the VBN theory in the context of organic food consumption as a pro-environmental behavior. Therefore, relevant departments and governments should take measures to promote organic food production in China from a psychological perspective.
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author Yang, Qing
Wu, Mengling
Al Mamun, Abdullah
Gao, Jingzu
Masud, Muhammad Mehedi
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Wu, Mengling
Al Mamun, Abdullah
Gao, Jingzu
Masud, Muhammad Mehedi
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title Organic food production among Chinese urban botanists
title_short Organic food production among Chinese urban botanists
title_full Organic food production among Chinese urban botanists
title_fullStr Organic food production among Chinese urban botanists
title_full_unstemmed Organic food production among Chinese urban botanists
title_sort organic food production among chinese urban botanists
publisher Springer Nature
publishDate 2024
url http://eprints.um.edu.my/45402/
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-02984-9
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