Analysis of Environmental Policy and the Performance of Sustainable Agricultural Development in China

Guofeng Wang, Ziyu Qian and Xiangzheng Deng
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Guofeng Wang: Faculty of International Trade, Shanxi University of Finance and Economic, Taiyuan 030006, China
Ziyu Qian: Faculty of International Trade, Shanxi University of Finance and Economic, Taiyuan 030006, China

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 24, 1-16

Abstract: A community with a shared future for mankind embodies the concept of sustainable development. This is also China’s contribution to global governance. Some of the Sustainable Development Goals (such as the elimination of hunger and malnutrition) require countries to implement people-centered overall agricultural transformations, and achieving such agricultural transformations is key to ensuring sustainable agricultural development and shifting agriculture toward a greener and more ecological direction. This paper uses the SBM Directional Distance Function and Malmquist Productivity Index with calculated data from 2000 to 2016. The results show that, since 2000, China’s environmental performance index growth has been slow, with an average annual growth rate of only 0.80%. This growth has gone through three phases: a stable up and down phase, a volatility decrease phase, and a volatility increase phase. In general, agricultural technological advances have played a more visible role in promoting a strong performance in reducing carbon emissions. Agriculture in China is also on the way to becoming more sustainable and green.

Keywords: sustainable development; environment policy; environmental performance index (EPI); SBM-undesired output (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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