The impact of energy poverty on agricultural productivity: The case of China

Shi, Hongxu; Xu, Hao; Gao, Wei; Zhang, Jinhao; Chang, Ming

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113020

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“…Against the backdrop of "big country, smallholder farmers", energy poverty is closely intertwined with agricultural production in China [48,49]. Energy input serves as a significant catalyst for agricultural growth [50] and directly influences agricultural productivity [51].…”

Section: Studies On the Nexus Of Rural Energy Poverty And Agricultura...mentioning

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Does Addressing Rural Energy Poverty Contribute to Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Development?

Wang,

Sun,

Zhang

et al. 2024

Agriculture

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Promoting sustainable agricultural development is pivotal to realizing sustainable development goals. This study initially constructs a comprehensive indicator to delineate the landscape of agricultural sustainable development (ASD) across China. While ASD in China demonstrates an upward trajectory, it remains relatively low and exhibits disparities across regions. Ensuring food security with minimal energy consumption in agriculture is particularly critical for China, and fostering access to affordable and clean energy services in rural areas is essential for expediting the transition to sustainable agriculture. This study investigates the impact of rural energy poverty (REP) on ASD across 30 Chinese provinces from 2000 to 2017, revealing that the eradication of REP yields tangible benefits for ASD. Furthermore, considering regional disparities, the elimination of REP significantly enhances ASD, particularly in non-major grain-producing areas compared to major grain-producing regions. These findings underscore the imperative of integrating efforts to alleviate energy poverty with initiatives aimed at advancing ASD. Such integration is indispensable for driving the overarching transition toward sustainable agriculture.

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confidence: 99%

Does Addressing Rural Energy Poverty Contribute to Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Development?

Wang,

Sun,

Zhang

et al. 2024

Agriculture

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“…However, the growth of agricultural production will lead to greater energy consumption and more GHG emissions. Moreover, some environmental problems have increasingly appeared, such as land pollution, soil hardening, and pollution due to chemical fertilizers [13]. The middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Basin are main production areas of grain in China and play an important role in ensuring food security in China.…”

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The effect of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions reduction policies: evidence from the middle and lower basin of Yangtze River, China

Liang

Ishii

2022

Discov Sustain

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To achieve energy conservation and the reduction of agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the Ministry of Agriculture of the People’s Republic of China in 2015 made Zhejiang Province the first national low-carbon and circular agriculture pilot province. Specialized policies were conducted in Zhejiang Province for reducing agricultural GHG emissions. In this study, we collected the GHG emission sources data of each city in Hubei and Zhejiang Provinces and calculated the estimated agricultural GHG emission of each city from 2011 to 2020 by using the recommended method from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Following this, we evaluated the impact of the pilot policies on the agricultural GHG emission in the treatment province, Zhejiang, by implementing the difference-in-differences (DID) analysis. The empirical results showed that after considering variables such as income level, rural employment, and average power of agricultural machinery, the agricultural GHG emissions in Zhejiang Province decreased significantly after 2015, compared with Hubei Province, driven by the low-carbon and circular agriculture pilot policies. Furthermore, agricultural GHG emissions can be effectively reduced by increasing national financial investment and administrative orders; however, excessive administrative orders and forced transformation of the agricultural system are likely to harm farmers’ interests in the process of policy implementation.

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“…Rising atmospheric temperatures will result in an increase in energy consumption for cooling, providing another area for analysis. A growing number of research studies also deal with the connections between energy poverty and efficiency and productivity in individual sectors of the economy, e.g., in agriculture [40]. Future research work can also be seen in this field, especially in the situation of considerable changes in supply chains, applied technologies (the issue of high prices of agrochemical products and the prospects for limiting their use in agriculture), etc.…”

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Energy Poverty as a Current Problem in the Light of Economic and Social Challenges

Piwowar

2022

Energies

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Study of the literature and personal research experience have resulted in the identification of many challenges in the field of energy poverty, both in terms of social and technical dimensions. The research problems indicated in the paper and the proposed topics for further methodological and analytical work appear to be important not only from the perspective of the categories of energy poverty but also in the contexts of climate change, the ongoing energy transformation and attempts to implement a new energy model based to a large degree on unconventional and renewable sources of energy. This article also contains both methodological and scientific considerations.

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The impact of energy poverty on agricultural productivity: The case of China

Cited by 33 publications

References 73 publications

Does Addressing Rural Energy Poverty Contribute to Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Development?

Does Addressing Rural Energy Poverty Contribute to Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Development?

The effect of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions reduction policies: evidence from the middle and lower basin of Yangtze River, China

Energy Poverty as a Current Problem in the Light of Economic and Social Challenges

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