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Land Circulation, Scale Operation, and Agricultural Carbon Reduction Efficiency: Evidence from China.
- Source :
- Discrete Dynamics in Nature & Society; 9/30/2021, p1-12, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Based on the panel data of 30 Chinese province in 2005–2018, this paper quantifies agricultural carbon reduction efficiency (CRE), using the slack-based measure (SBM)-data envelopment analysis (DEA) model with undesired outputs (SBM-DEA ∗ ), and empirically tests that development of land circulation market directly affects agricultural CRE, and indirectly affects agricultural CRE via scale operation of farmland. The results show that the following: (1) In the observation period, China's agricultural CREs generally evolved from a low level to a high level, with an annual growth rate of 8.0%, but there is still a large space of carbon reduction. (2) Overall, land circulation significantly promoted agricultural CRE, but the promoting effect varied from region to region: the promoting effect was significant in eastern and central regions, and insignificant in western region. (3) Scale operation of farmland had a nonlinear, partial mediation effect on how land circulation influences agricultural CRE; land circulation greatly accelerated the scale operation of farmland, while the growing scale of farmland utilization had an inverted U-shaped influence on agricultural CRE. Our research results imply that promoting land circulation directly drives the low-carbon transformation of agriculture in China, but excessive scale operation of farmland might hinder agricultural carbon reduction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- PANEL analysis
CARBON
FARMS
REAL estate development
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10260226
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Discrete Dynamics in Nature & Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 152742985
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/9288895