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

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...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Yue, Feng, Mengwei, Fang, Zhengshuai, Yi, Fujin, Liu, Zhenzhen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10002245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36901199
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20054189
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author Zhang, Yue
Feng, Mengwei
Fang, Zhengshuai
Yi, Fujin
Liu, Zhenzhen
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-100022452023-03-11 Impact of Digital Village Construction on Agricultural Carbon Emissions: Evidence from Mainland China Zhang, Yue Feng, Mengwei Fang, Zhengshuai Yi, Fujin Liu, Zhenzhen Int J Environ Res Public Health Article 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. MDPI 2023-02-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10002245/ /pubmed/36901199 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20054189 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_short Impact of Digital Village Construction on Agricultural Carbon Emissions: Evidence from Mainland China
title_sort impact of digital village construction on agricultural carbon emissions: evidence from mainland china
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10002245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36901199
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20054189
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