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Sustainable agricultural development, which aims to optimize income and minimize resource consumption and environmental impacts, is strongly influenced by farming resource endowments and agricultural livelihood strategies. However, quantifying the impacts of these factors on agricultural sustainability remains a challenge. Here, we proposed a framework that incorporated the agricultural food–energy–water (FEW) nexus into a sustainable livelihood framework, to explore agricultural sustainability. We then applied a partial least squares–structural equation model (PLS-SEM), based on household survey data from MiYun Reservoir watershed, China, to identify the complex pathways of the impact of household farming resource endowments and livelihood diversification on agricultural sustainability. Our study indicated that diversified farming achieved a better performance in the FEW nexus via the mediating factor of farming inputs (β = 0.335, p < 0.01). Meanwhile, diversified farming had positive effects on economic profits and environmental sustainability (β = 0.531, p < 0.01). Increasing farming resource endowments also had a better performance in the FEW nexus (β = 0.211, p < 0.01); howeve

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Author

Wenjia Peng; Hua Zheng; Brian E. Robinson; Cong Li; Ruonan Li

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2022

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)