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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Agricultural and Food Economics
Volume 8 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1502145
This article is part of the Research Topic Environmental Resilience and Sustainable Agri-food System Management View all 5 articles

Enhancing Sustainable Agricultural Performance in Selected Chinese Region: The Role of Food Supply Chain Management, Resource Utilization, and Government Support

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Sahar Erfanian Sahar Erfanian 1Yewang Zhou Yewang Zhou 1*Qadar Bakhsh Baloch Qadar Bakhsh Baloch 2
  • 1 Huanggang Normal University, Huanggang, China
  • 2 University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

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    As global food security and environmental sustainability become increasingly critical, understanding the factors that enhance sustainable agricultural performance is paramount. In this context, This study investigates the relationship between food supply chain management, resource utilization, sustainable agricultural practices, and sustainable agricultural performance within the Chinese market, focusing on the moderating role of government support. Data were collected through 480 structured questionnaires distributed across Changsha, Wuhan, and Guangzhou and analyzed using a two-stage SEM-ANN approach. The findings reveal that sustainable agricultural practices significantly mediate the relationship between food supply chain management and sustainable agricultural performance. Moreover, sustainable agricultural practices also mediate the relationship between resource utilization and sustainable agricultural performance. Resource utilization was found to sequentially mediate the relationships between food supply chain management, sustainable agricultural practices, and sustainable agricultural performance.Additionally, government support was identified as a crucial moderator in strengthening the relationship between sustainable agricultural practices and performance. The findings have significant implications for policymakers, agricultural managers, and researchers, offering insights into strategies for improving agricultural sustainability in China and potentially other similar contexts.

    Keywords: Food supply chain management, resource utilization, Sustainable agricultural practices, Sustainable Agricultural performance, Government Support and Incentives

    Received: 26 Sep 2024; Accepted: 11 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Erfanian, Zhou and Baloch. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Yewang Zhou, Huanggang Normal University, Huanggang, China

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