The influence of survival conditions on farmer willingness to participate in non-grain conversions of cultivated land based on the SOR model.

Non-grain conversions (NGC) of cultivated land pose a great threat to national food security, and farmers are the direct actors in the NGC of cultivated land. Exploring the influence of farmer' survival situation on their willingness to convert cultivated land to non-grain land can provide theoretical support for formulating control policies for NGC of cultivated land. Based on the data obtained from 650 questionnaires in Henan Province and using the SOR model as the theoretical basis, this study explored the impact mechanism of the survival situations of two types of farmers, namely, those with agricultural livelihoods (AL) and those with nonagricultural livelihoods (NL), on their willingness to convert farmland into non-grain land through the use of structural equation models.