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  • Open Access
22 Citations
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23 Pages

Agricultural mechanization service (AMS) is a critical path to achieving agricultural green transformation with smallholders as the mainstay of agricultural production. Based on the panel data of 30 Chinese provinces from 2011 to 2020, this paper mea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,046 Views
15 Pages

Promoting green and sustainable agriculture is of great significance for ensuring food security and addressing global challenges. Meanwhile, health has increasingly become a global concern. Nutrition and health are the purpose of agricultural product...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,875 Views
18 Pages

16 August 2024

Against the backdrop of the green transformation of the national economy, this paper takes Jiangsu Province as a case study to explore spatiotemporal characteristics of cultivated land utilization green transformation (CLUGT) and its impact on agricu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,209 Views
17 Pages

11 September 2023

As an important means of farmland policy, whether land transfer can promote agricultural green transformation is worthy of further study; however, related research is relatively rare. Based on the inter-provincial panel data from 2005 to 2020, this p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,197 Views
15 Pages

7 December 2021

Taking into account the evolution of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), it is wondered to what extent the “green” transformation of this policy and the accompanying change in the distribution of direct payments between farms contribute...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,039 Views
23 Pages

25 September 2024

Exploring the adoption of green production technologies by farmers (GTA) is of great significance, given the context of global climate change and sustainable agricultural development. This article starts from the perspective of the transformation of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,399 Views
18 Pages

18 December 2024

Promoting the role of green finance (GF) in agricultural green transformation is essential for easing resource constraints and achieving sustainable agricultural development. Based on provincial-level data from 2006 to 2022, this study considers the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,094 Views
17 Pages

31 January 2023

In light of the increasing global food crisis, this study concentrated on the complex causality of sustainable food security in China. In the context of the agricultural green transformation, a comprehensive evaluation system of agricultural green de...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
641 Views
14 Pages

25 November 2025

Many developing countries are highly dependent on agriculture and land expansion, which leads to the loss of forests and other natural habitats. Both features pose a challenge for green rural transformation. By applying a “land” Kaya identity, growth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,199 Views
21 Pages

29 May 2025

Reducing fertilizer and pesticide use is a crucial path for the green transformation of agricultural production, which has garnered sustained attention in research on sustainable agricultural development. Based on the theoretical analysis, this artic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,633 Views
14 Pages

13 December 2024

The key to sustainable agricultural development is the transition to an environmentally friendly economic growth model. The development of agricultural credit (AC) plays an important role in promoting the shift of agricultural economic growth toward...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
894 Views
25 Pages

27 May 2025

The Yellow River Basin in China is the region with the most severe agricultural non-point source pollution. The control of agricultural non-point source pollution is an important task for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yell...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,671 Views
28 Pages

The advent of new digital technologies has catalyzed a disruptive technological revolution, fostering significant industrial changes and advancing the green transformation of the economy and society. This paper investigates the influence of digitizat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
91 Views
22 Pages

24 January 2026

Green production technology, serving as a core approach to coordinate agricultural production and ecological conservation, acts not only as a technological engine driving the transition towards sustainable agricultural models but also as a critical p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,013 Views
18 Pages

13 June 2025

To further promote rural revitalization strategies and achieve common prosperity, it is necessary to clarify the relationships among public expenditure for agriculture, agricultural green total factor productivity (AGTFP), and the urban–rural i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,900 Views
16 Pages

Green agricultural development opens up a feasible way for China to construct sustainable communities and promote rural revitalization strategies. However, a clear gap on the subject sets apart various regions in China, resulting in off-balance devel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,040 Views
16 Pages

This paper aims to apply the time-varying Granger causality test (TVGC) and the DY Spillover Index (Diebold and Yilmaz, 2012) to measure the Granger causality and dynamic risk spillover effects of the international crude oil futures market on China&r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,426 Views
20 Pages

21 December 2024

Advancing new productive forces in agriculture requires the adoption of disruptive green technological innovation by agricultural enterprises. This study analyzes the generative mechanisms for promoting disruptive green technological innovation based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,331 Views
19 Pages

15 September 2022

In recent years, China has actively promoted the green transformation and low-carbon development of agriculture. New-type agricultural business entities such as family farms, specialized cooperatives and agro-processing enterprises have become import...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,163 Views
23 Pages

25 April 2024

Agricultural green development represents an environmentally friendly and resource-efficient agricultural model, and it is a key way to achieve sustainable agricultural development. With the rapid rise of the digital economy, its influence is gradual...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,180 Views
18 Pages

23 October 2024

Agricultural green development is crucial for achieving the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, with the digital technology revolution acting as a catalyst for both China’s green agricultural transformation and global sustainable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,537 Views
19 Pages

20 June 2023

This study examines the impact of green finance on optimizing China’s agricultural industrial structure. It emphasizes the importance of innovative green financial services, improved efficiency, tailored regional approaches, and enhanced foresi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,086 Views
17 Pages

27 June 2024

A future trend in agricultural development is to promote the green transformation of agriculture and realize the transformation from extensive consumption to environmentally friendly consumption. However, in the process of circulating green agricultu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,335 Views
29 Pages

Towards Digital Transformation of Agriculture for Sustainable Development in China: Experience and Lessons Learned

  • Shu Wang,
  • Yueling Yang,
  • Heyao Yin,
  • Jianya Zhao,
  • Ting Wang,
  • Xiaomei Yang,
  • Jing Ren and
  • Changbin Yin

21 April 2025

In the era of the digital economy, where digitization permeates all sectors of society, digital transformation in agriculture stands as a crucial solution for addressing the growing challenges in agricultural production. Amid the competition to enhan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,084 Views
21 Pages

24 October 2025

Farmers’ green production behavior is key to addressing resource and environmental constraints and advancing agricultural green transformation, with social capital critically influencing their production decisions. However, rural population mob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,088 Views
23 Pages

Regional rural systems respond to global environmental change with multi-dimensional transformation. However, in the widespread traditional agricultural areas, rural transformation is often seen as invisible and sometimes remains hidden by official s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Views
25 Pages

22 January 2026

Against the backdrop of the “dual carbon” strategy and digital rural development, examining the impact of farmers’ digital literacy on the adoption and efficiency of green agricultural technologies can provide micro-level evidence a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,027 Views
50 Pages

20 September 2025

As China’s agriculture transitions toward high-quality development, reconciling agricultural green transformation with improved farmers’ income quality has become critical. This study seeks to investigate the effects of agricultural green...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,245 Views
13 Pages

2 July 2024

During a critical period of structural reform in China’s agricultural supply chain, accelerating the promotion and application of green production technologies emerges as a pivotal strategy to ensure the quality and safety of agricultural produ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
72 Citations
5,429 Views
12 Pages

19 March 2021

The development of green agriculture is an effective way to realize the sustainable development of agriculture, which is of great significance for guaranteeing national food security, improving the supply ability of agricultural products, promoting t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,140 Views
27 Pages

Research on Evaluation Elements of Urban Agricultural Green Bases: A Causal Inference-Based Approach

  • Yuchong Long,
  • Zhengwei Cao,
  • Yan Mao,
  • Xinran Liu,
  • Yan Gao,
  • Chuanzhi Zhou and
  • Xin Zheng

20 August 2023

The construction of agricultural green bases is an important part of sustainable agricultural development. This paper takes urban agriculture green bases in Shanghai as an example, choosing base construction elements, production, and ecological const...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,174 Views
20 Pages

8 October 2022

With the development of green agriculture, the demand of farmers for operation loans is increasing. Supply chain finance is becoming a new way to solve the problem of difficult credit in agricultural development. As the importance of sustainability i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,033 Views
27 Pages

4 November 2024

The construction of digital villages has progressed in tandem with the transformation of traditional production methods, offering new perspectives for agricultural green growth and sustainable development. This study employs the entropy value method...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,758 Views
17 Pages

Green agriculture can improve biodiversity, increase farmers’ income, reduce agricultural non-point source pollution, solve food safety issues, and will be an important way to promote sustainable development in China. At present, the green tran...

  • Article
  • Open Access
806 Views
26 Pages

22 September 2025

China is vigorously promoting agricultural energy conservation and carbon reduction and accelerating the transformation of traditional agriculture towards green development, which is a key measure adopted by the Chinese government to advance agricult...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,378 Views
26 Pages

19 May 2025

Corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance has become an increasingly critical driver of sustainable development. Investigating the impact of ESG performance on corporate green development is of great significance for achieving...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
813 Views
21 Pages

21 November 2025

The synergy between agricultural digitalization and greening is an inherent requirement for high-quality agricultural development and is a vital pathway for cultivating agricultural new quality productive forces (ANQPFs). Based on 2012–2023 pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
5,684 Views
30 Pages

14 January 2022

In the face of increasingly severe resource and environmental constraints, accelerating the transformation of agricultural green development through agricultural science and technology innovation is an effective measure to reduce agricultural polluti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
337 Views
34 Pages

Can Agricultural Credit Promote Farmers’ Green Production Behaviors? Evidence from China

  • Qiongzhou Wu,
  • Wantong Li,
  • Tian Chen,
  • Qingyun Bai and
  • Dungang Zang

Agricultural green production is vital for sustainable agricultural development and rural revitalization. As a market-oriented financial tool, this study examines the role of agricultural credit in promoting green production behaviors among farmers (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
1,581 Views
19 Pages

Green agriculture represents the future of agricultural transformation in developing countries, such as China. Identifying an effective resource combination path is vital for enhancing the green quality of agriculture in these nations. This study dra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,001 Views
21 Pages

31 July 2025

This study endeavors to elucidate the mechanisms and pathways through which the digital economy shapes agricultural green development, providing theoretical underpinnings and practical guidance for the green transformation of regional agriculture. (1...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,212 Views
19 Pages

10 May 2022

This study addresses differentiation among small-scale farmers’ preferences for green agriculture policy incentive mixes. Transforming modern agriculture to ecological fertilization and pest extermination practices is paramount in developing gr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,946 Views
18 Pages

According to the Plan for Rural Development of Digital Agriculture (2019–2025), accelerated integration of digital technologies and agriculture is crucial to promoting high-quality agriculture in China. The application of DIT in agricultural ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,505 Views
28 Pages

23 August 2025

Against the backdrop of global commitments to sustainable development and carbon neutrality objectives, the agricultural sector faces compelling imperatives to transition toward environmentally sustainable and resource-efficient production systems. F...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,735 Views
18 Pages

24 December 2020

As one of the main grain-producing areas in China, urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River plays an important role in the development of agricultural production for China’s grain supply. The existing studies about agricul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,394 Views
18 Pages

The green transformation of production modes plays an essential role in the sustainable development of China’s agriculture and the modernization process, but there is often a deviation between farmers’ behavior and their willingness regar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,125 Views
16 Pages

Open burning of straw is the most significant problem of environmental pollution in rural areas. Returning straw to the fields is beneficial to rural environmental management and rural development. Comprehensive utilization of straw in the field not...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,001 Views
20 Pages

4 September 2025

The green transformation of agricultural systems is crucial for environmental protection and food security, yet smallholder-dominated systems face immense structural barriers. This study investigates whether agricultural socialized services (ASSs)&md...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,371 Views
12 Pages

Impact of Food Sustainability Labels on the Price of Rice in Online Sales

  • Xinyu Ma,
  • Ziqi Liu,
  • Ting Meng,
  • Wojciech J. Florkowski and
  • Yueying Mu

23 November 2022

Currently, the quality and safety of agricultural products and the enhancement of the agroecological environment are widely discussed. In response to solving the problem of insufficient exploitation of the market potential regarding sustainable agric...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,159 Views
20 Pages

27 February 2025

New urbanisation is crucial for agricultural green transformation and ensuring food and ecological security. Taking Jilin Province as its focus, this study constructs a new urbanisation index system covering four dimensions—population, economy,...

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