The environmental performance of agricultural production trusteeship from the perspective of planting carbon emissions
China Agricultural Economic Review
ISSN: 1756-137X
Article publication date: 24 October 2023
Issue publication date: 1 December 2023
Abstract
Purpose
In the context of carbon peaking and neutrality, effectively controlling agricultural carbon emissions has gained academic attention. As an essential form of agricultural service scale management, this study investigates whether and how trusteeship affects the carbon emission behavior in planting production.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors established a theoretical framework to analyze the impact of agricultural production trusteeship on carbon emissions from planting. China's provincial panel data in the 2012–2021 period were selected to test the impact, mechanisms and heterogeneity of agricultural production trusteeship on carbon emissions from planting using the bidirectional fixed effect model and the panel correction standard error regression model.
Findings
The findings indicate that agricultural production trusteeship significantly inhibits carbon emissions from planting, especially in the dimensions of fertilizer input, pesticide application, agricultural film use and mechanical fuel. Agricultural production trusteeship primarily affects the intensity of these carbon emissions through contiguous farmland management and planting structure adjustment. Further examinations revealed that the influence of agricultural production trusteeship on carbon emissions from planting was heterogeneous with respect to geographical location, proportion of non-farming income and scale of agricultural production.
Originality/value
This study is the first to systematically evaluate the impact of agricultural production trusteeship on carbon emissions from planting.
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Acknowledgements
Funding: The study was funded by the key program of the National Social Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 22AJY019), the program for Innovative Research Team in Universities of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (Grant No. NMGIRT2201) and basic research projects of Universities Directly Under the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (Grant No. NCYWT23030).
Citation
Zhao, L., Liu, Y. and Shi, J. (2023), "The environmental performance of agricultural production trusteeship from the perspective of planting carbon emissions", China Agricultural Economic Review, Vol. 15 No. 4, pp. 853-870. https://doi.org/10.1108/CAER-01-2023-0016
Publisher
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