The rebound effect of energy consumption and its determinants in China's agricultural production

Hongyun Han and Zinan Zhou

Energy, 2024, vol. 290, issue C

Abstract: With the facilitation of agricultural modernization, China's agricultural energy consumption continues to rise. This paper empirically tests the agricultural energy rebound effect and its influencing factors in China during 1999–2020. It is believed that the improvement of energy efficiency has not led to the expected energy-saving effect in agriculture due to the "Jevons paradox" of energy efficiency and energy consumption. The average energy efficiency of China's agricultural energy consumption was 0.446, and the average energy rebound effect was 68.9 %. The level of agricultural mechanization, the effective irrigated area of farmland and agricultural investment have a positive impact on the rebound effect of agricultural energy, and the direct effects are 0.062, 0.008 and 0.064, respectively, while agricultural labor force and energy price have a negative impact on the rebound effect of agricultural energy. In particular, technology spillover and scale spillover led by agricultural technology progress have strong negative space spillover effect. As it is argued, 1 % of agricultural technology progress can reduce 3.5 % of agricultural energy rebound effect in surrounding areas. In order to reduce the energy rebound effect, it is suggested to increase the subsidies to agricultural labors and rationally formulate regional differentiated energy regulation policies.

Keywords: Agricultural energy rebound effect; Influencing factors; Jevons paradox; Energy efficiency; Space spillover effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2023.129961

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