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Energy Economics and Low Carbon Policy in the Agriculture Sector

A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Economics, Policies and Rural Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 February 2023) | Viewed by 12814

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Prof. Dr. Huaping Sun

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School of Finance and Economics, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Interests: green finance; industrial transformation; carbon neutrality; low-carbon development; energy transition
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Prof. Dr. Huiming Zhang

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1. Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
2. School of Management Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Interests: energy strategy and management; energy and environmental system modeling; climate change and public polic
Dr. Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary

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Department of Economics, Tokai University, Tokyo 151-8677, Japan
Interests: green finance; energy policy; banking and finance; Japanese economy; energy finance; energy economics
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Dear Colleagues,

Carbon emissions from agriculture and rural areas mainly include greenhouse gas emissions such as methane and nitrous oxide produced in the process of agricultural production, as well as direct carbon dioxide emissions from fossil energy consumed through the operation of agricultural machinery and rural life. At the same time, it also includes the indirect carbon emissions caused by the production of external inputs such as chemical fertilizers, pesticides and feeds used in agricultural production activities, as well as electricity used in agricultural production. Although the direct consumption of energy by agriculture brings limited carbon emissions, great changes have taken place in the mode of agricultural production and consumption, with the agricultural industrial chain having been extended and the energy consumption and carbon emissions of the entire agricultural food system having been increasing, which cannot be ignored.

In rural agriculture, there are emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, which can be called carbon emission sources, but also a large number of carbon sink bases. Therefore, the overall adjustment of the agricultural production mode and structure, on the one hand, can reduce the number of carbon emission sources, and, on the other hand, can also significantly increase the carbon sink in the process of agricultural production. It is of great practical significance to study the impact of energy innovation and low-carbon policies in the agricultural sector on global environmental efficiency. The gradual realization of carbon neutralization within agriculture and rural areas would contribute greatly to global carbon neutralization.

This Special Issue focuses on the role that energy economics and low-carbon policies of the agricultural sector play in the process of global carbon neutralization over time. For this reason, we welcome highly interdisciplinary quality studies from disparate research fields, including energy economics and low-carbon policies of the agricultural sector, agricultural environmental efficiency calculation and modeling, rural green development, carbon finance, climate change risk prevention, etc. Original research articles and reviews are approved formats.

Prof. Dr. Huaping Sun
Prof. Dr. Huiming Zhang
Prof. Dr. Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Agriculture is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • energy economics
  • low carbon policy
  • agriculture sector
  • carbon emissions reduction
  • carbon sink
  • carbon neutrality
  • agricultural environmental efficiency
  • rural green development
  • carbon finance
  • climate change risk

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Can Integration of Agriculture and Tourism Promote Rural Green Development?—Empirical Evidence from 152 Cities in China
by Yingji Liu, Manchao Zhang, Qun Cao, Erhong Wang and Bingkun Zou
Agriculture 2023, 13(2), 405; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13020405 - 09 Feb 2023
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Based on theoretical analysis of the connotations of and influencing factors on rural green development, this paper systematically explains its promotion mechanisms, its heterogeneity, and transmission effects of the integration of agriculture and tourism (hereinafter referred to as IAT) on rural green development; [...] Read more.
Based on theoretical analysis of the connotations of and influencing factors on rural green development, this paper systematically explains its promotion mechanisms, its heterogeneity, and transmission effects of the integration of agriculture and tourism (hereinafter referred to as IAT) on rural green development; constructs and measures development indicators of IAT based on the three dimensions factors, performance, and structure; constructs comprehensive indicators of rural green development based on the three dimensions production, life, and ecology; and takes the panel data of 152 prefecture-level cities with agricultural leisure demonstration counties from 2010 to 2019 as samples for empirical testing. Results show that (1) IAT has a significant positive effect on rural green development, and endogenous tests based on instrumental variables and robustness tests show that the above conclusion is valid; (2) heterogeneity analysis shows that IAT plays a more significant role in promoting rural green development in high-human-capital areas, central and western regions, and non-major grain-producing areas; and (3) labor structure, capital input, and technological progress can play a transmitting role in promoting rural green development through IAT. At the end, this paper puts forward some countermeasures to promote rural green development by implementation of the quality projects strategy of IAT, the “tailor-made” support policy of IAT, based on the advantages of resource endowment and improvement of transmission mechanisms based on labor structure, capital input, and technological progress. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Economics and Low Carbon Policy in the Agriculture Sector)
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The Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Total Factor Productivity: A Cross-Country Panel Data Analysis, 1961–2013
by Tao Xiang, Tariq H. Malik, Jack W. Hou and Jiliang Ma
Agriculture 2022, 12(12), 2123; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12122123 - 10 Dec 2022
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The literature has mixed findings regarding the impact of climate change on agricultural production, probably due to different choices of dependent variables. Based on panel data analysis of 140 countries from an extended period, i.e., 1961 to 2013, this study applies the explicit [...] Read more.
The literature has mixed findings regarding the impact of climate change on agricultural production, probably due to different choices of dependent variables. Based on panel data analysis of 140 countries from an extended period, i.e., 1961 to 2013, this study applies the explicit method of using TFP as the dependent variable, but also delivers estimations with the implicit approach of using agricultural output as the dependent variable, so as to be able to directly compare the results with the mainstream trends in the existing literature. We found that using agricultural TFP as the dependent variable generates more consistent and robust results. We also found a strong negative impact of climate change on agricultural productivity. A one-unit downward deviation of precipitation (i.e., drought) and one unit of upward deviation of temperature (i.e., global warming) decrease the TFP by 0.530 and 0.494, respectively. As we have one of the largest sample sizes when it comes to studying the effect of climate change, we carried out an exploration by dividing the sample into different categories of developed vs. developing countries and cold vs. warm climates, as well as by splitting the time series into two distinct periods. We found that climate change has had a heterogeneous impact on countries with different development levels, with negative impacts on developing countries and positive effects on developed countries, which leads to the rising concern of the impact of climate change on inequality. This heterogeneity and the uneven impact found in this study strongly suggest the need for countries to work together to coordinate and mitigate these adverse effects rather than to adapt to the situation by focusing on the input variations, as the latter will increase the inequality effect of climate change and add to an already unstable global environment. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Economics and Low Carbon Policy in the Agriculture Sector)
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Role of Digital Empowerment in Developing Farmers’ Green Production by Agro-Tourism Integration in Xichong, Sichuan
by Yi-Ping Zhong, Lin-Ren Tang and Ying Li
Agriculture 2022, 12(11), 1761; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12111761 - 25 Oct 2022
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Minimal participation in green agricultural development may be achieved via the conventional integration of agriculture and tourism, which has a minimal impact on farmers’ green output. New traits have emerged as a result of agro-tourism integration with digital empowerment. It was shown that [...] Read more.
Minimal participation in green agricultural development may be achieved via the conventional integration of agriculture and tourism, which has a minimal impact on farmers’ green output. New traits have emerged as a result of agro-tourism integration with digital empowerment. It was shown that agro-tourism integration with digital empowerment had a stronger impact on farmers’ green output than traditional agro-tourism integration, based on the construction of the dynamic information game model and the case of Xichong, Sichuan. The integration of agriculture and tourism from the perspective of digital empowerment is characterized by “data traceability” and “information diffusion”, which restrains opportunistic farmer impersonation. The feature of “knowledge sharing” promotes the progress of agricultural technology, reduces the cost of green production and increases the probability of farmers producing high-quality agricultural products. The “information matching” feature promotes the symmetry of quality information, and production and sales information at both ends of supply and demand, and raises the prices of high-quality agricultural products. The latter two features jointly enhance the willingness of honest farmers to produce green items by reducing the cost of green production and increasing the prices of high-quality agricultural products. From the perspective of digital empowerment, the integration of agriculture and tourism can further promote farmers’ green production by effectively suppressing opportunistic farmers’ fake behavior and promoting honest farmers’ green production to a greater extent. Full article
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Measurement and Spatial–Temporal Characteristics of Agricultural Carbon Emission in China: An Internal Structural Perspective
by Shibin Wen, Yuxiang Hu and Hongman Liu
Agriculture 2022, 12(11), 1749; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12111749 - 22 Oct 2022
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The focus of world governance on climate change has been on the industrial and transport sectors, yet the agricultural sector produces a lot of greenhouse gases, and this has always been ignored. This paper focuses on China, one of the world’s largest agricultural [...] Read more.
The focus of world governance on climate change has been on the industrial and transport sectors, yet the agricultural sector produces a lot of greenhouse gases, and this has always been ignored. This paper focuses on China, one of the world’s largest agricultural countries, and it investigates its agriculture carbon emission from a new perspective of the internal structure of it, which is relatively under-researched. Carbon metrology, the emission factor method and kernel density estimations are used to analyze China’s agricultural carbon emissions structure and its regional differences and its dynamic evolution characteristics. We find that: (1) China’s total amount of agricultural carbon emissions showed a ladder-like upward trend, but the growth rate of it has gradually slowed down; the inter-provincial heterogeneity of the agricultural carbon emissions was obvious. (2) From the standpoint of the grain functional areas, the annual total amount of agricultural carbon emissions and the amount of carbon emissions of each carbon source in the major grain producing areas were significantly higher than those in the major grain sales areas and the production–sales balance areas, and the carbon emission intensity in the major grain producing areas was the lowest overall. (3) In regard to the internal structure, China’s agricultural carbon emissions mainly came from the livestock and poultry, rice planting and agricultural energy sectors; the proportion of carbon emissions that were caused by the agricultural materials, agricultural energy and soil increased in general, and the inter-provincial differences between them expanded, while the inter-provincial differences between livestock and poultry gradually decreased. The proportion of carbon emissions from the six major agricultural carbon sources showed a convergence trend, and their kernel density had a right tail phenomenon. Our research deepens the understanding of China’s agricultural carbon emission structure, contributes to the rational optimization of the agricultural structure, and helps the agriculture sector and the rural areas to reach the carbon peak. Full article
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Can Green Finance Effectively Promote the Carbon Emission Reduction in “Local-Neighborhood” Areas?—Empirical Evidence from China
by Jing Sun, Ningning Zhai, Jichao Miao and Huaping Sun
Agriculture 2022, 12(10), 1550; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12101550 - 26 Sep 2022
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Carbon emission reduction is a systematic project requiring support from policy, capital, and technology in its promotion, which represents a greater need for green finance. Frontier research focuses on the impact of green finance on local CO2 emissions, but generally ignores its [...] Read more.
Carbon emission reduction is a systematic project requiring support from policy, capital, and technology in its promotion, which represents a greater need for green finance. Frontier research focuses on the impact of green finance on local CO2 emissions, but generally ignores its ripple impacts on carbon emission reduction in adjacent areas. Combining panel data from 30 Chinese provincial-level cities from 2004 to 2019, this study employs a spatial panel Durbin model to empirically test the ripple effect of green finance on carbon emission reduction in adjacent areas and further investigate the formation mechanism of the ripple effect. The results are as follows: (1) Green financial development has a significant inhibitory effect on local and neighboring CO2 emissions, which affirms the existence of the ripple effect of green finance. (2) Through formation mechanism analysis, it is found that the upgrading of an industrial structure has played a transmission role in the ripple effect of green finance. Finally, based on the empirical results, some suggestions are put forward from the perspectives of innovating green financial services and promoting the effective alignment of green financial development with carbon emission reduction targets and the deep integration of green finance and regional green industry development, so as to better develop the potential of green finance in the realization of the carbon reduction goals. Full article
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