Research on the Relationship between Agricultural Carbon Emission Intensity, Agricultural Economic Development and Agricultural Trade in China

Dungang Zang, Zhijia Hu, Yunqi Yang and Siyu He ()
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Dungang Zang: School of Economics, Sichuan Agricultural University, 211 Huimin Road, Chengdu 611130, China
Zhijia Hu: School of Economics, Sichuan Agricultural University, 211 Huimin Road, Chengdu 611130, China
Yunqi Yang: School of Economics, Sichuan Agricultural University, 211 Huimin Road, Chengdu 611130, China
Siyu He: School of Marxism, Sichuan Agricultural University, 211 Huimin Road, Chengdu 611130, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 18, 1-22

Abstract: Under the interactive background of more emphasis on low-carbon and environmentally friendly agricultural production modes and the coordinated development of agricultural foreign trade, China is paying more and more attention to the coordination between agricultural trade, economic development and ecological agriculture development. This paper selects the relevant data of China from 2002 to 2020 as the research object. Taking the agricultural carbon emission intensity as an indicator of environmental pollution, measuring it and then constructing a time series model for analysis, the research finds that, in the long run, the increase in agricultural carbon emission intensity in China will reduce the level of agricultural trade by 2%, which will also lead to a decline in the overall development level of the agricultural economy by 2 to 4 percent. At the same time, this paper also finds that the current situation of China’s agricultural trade reduces the development of China’s agriculture by 1%, which will also lead to an increase in agricultural carbon emission intensity by about 0.5%. Finally, this paper finds that the development of the agricultural economy makes the overall increase in agricultural trade 2%, and with the development of the agricultural economy, the agricultural carbon emission intensity decreases by 0.1%, but the impact is small. Therefore, it is necessary to improve the construction of a leadership mechanism, implement the development strategy of low-carbon agriculture and provide corresponding financial security and other policy suggestions to promote the coordinated development of China’s agricultural trade and low-carbon agricultural production environment.

Keywords: agricultural carbon emissions; China’s agricultural trade; agricultural economic development; SVAR model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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