Impact of Digital Village Construction on Agricultural Carbon Emissions: Evidence from Mainland China

Yue Zhang, Mengwei Feng, Zhengshuai Fang, Fujin Yi and Zhenzhen Liu ()
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Yue Zhang: School of Management, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China
Mengwei Feng: School of Management, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China
Zhengshuai Fang: School of Management, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China
Fujin Yi: School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Zhenzhen Liu: College of Economics and Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 5, 1-19

Abstract: Reducing agricultural carbon emissions is required to reach the goal of carbon neutrality and mitigate the effects of climate change. With the advent of the digital economy, we aimed to determine if digital village construction can achieve carbon reduction in agriculture. As such, in this study, we used balanced panel data for 30 provinces in China from 2011 to 2020 to conduct an empirical analysis based on measuring the digital village construction level in each province. We found the following: Firstly, digital village construction is conducive to reducing the carbon emitted from agriculture, and the results of further tests showed that the carbon reduction effect of digital villages is mainly based on the reduction in carbon emissions from chemical fertilisers and pesticides. Secondly, the digital village construction has a stronger inhibiting effect on agricultural carbon emissions in major grain-producing areas than in non-major grain-producing areas. The level of rural human capital is the limiting condition for digital village construction to enable green agricultural development; in areas with higher levels of human capital, digital village construction has a significant inhibiting effect on agricultural carbon emissions. The above conclusions are valuable for the future promotion of digital village construction and the design of a green development model for agriculture.

Keywords: digital village; agricultural carbon emissions; nonagricultural employment; agricultural green development; mainland China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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