Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2025, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (3): 712-725.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.20240110

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Impact of rural land empowerment on carbon emission efficiency in agriculture: a panel data study based on 30 province-level administrative regions across China

SHI Xiaoyan1(), WANG Yinfan2, ZHANG Jing1, WANG Peng3   

  1. 1. College of Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
    2. Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China
    3. School of Economics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
  • Received:2024-01-25 Online:2025-03-25 Published:2025-04-02

Abstract:

Low-carbon and green development is an intrinsic requirement for high-quality development of agriculture. In the present assay, the SSBM model and the global Malmquist-Luenberger index were used to measure the efficiency of agricultural carbon emissions, and the issue rate of land contractual management right certificate was used to characterize the degree of rural land empowerment. Based on the panel data of 30 province-level administrative regions in China from 2006 to 2020, the panel data regression model was used to explore the effect and influencing mechanism of rural land empowerment on agricultural carbon emission efficiency, and the moderating effect of rural land transfer on the relationship between rural land empowerment and agricultural carbon emission efficiency was investigated. The variable coefficient panel data regression model was used to test the heterogeneity of the impact of rural land empowerment on agricultural carbon emission efficiency. The results showed that: 1) rural land empowerment could improve the efficiency of agricultural carbon emission, especially for the major agricultural provinces. 2) Rural land empowerment was conducive to accelerating the transfer of rural labor to urban or non-agricultural industries, improving the level of large-scale farmland management, promoting the rationalization of agricultural industrial structure, and improving the efficiency of agricultural carbon emission. 3) The impact of rural land empowerment on agricultural carbon emission efficiency was moderated by the development degree of rural land transfer market. With the improvement of rural land transfer level, the promotion effect of rural land empowerment on agricultural carbon emission efficiency would be stronger. Accordingly, it is suggested that farmers should be given clear land property right and the construction of a rural land circulation and transaction market system should be accelerated, so as to better play the role of rural land empowerment in the low-carbon and sustainable development of agriculture.

Key words: rural land empowerment, low-carbon transformation of agriculture, rural land transfer

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