Does the prevailing Indian agricultural ecosystem cause carbon dioxide emission? A consent towards risk reduction

Ali, Basit; Ullah, Arif; Khan, Dilawar

doi:10.1007/s11356-020-10848-3

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“…The ecological footprint of a given nation is known as the total size of land under production and the aquatic ecosystems needed to produce the resources the nation uses and assimilate the waste it produces, anywhere on earth where land and water can be located [3]. The ecological footprint is now widely praised as a heuristic, effective and pedagogical representative of the current environmental situation related to the use of human resources [4]. It has been a controversial issue in relation to ecological footprint measurement techniques around the world.…”

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Link between Technically Derived Energy Efficiency and Ecological Footprint: Empirical Evidence from the ASEAN Region

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The sustainable environment has been a desired situation around the world for the last few decades. Environmental contaminations can be a consequence of various economic activities. Different socio-economic factors influence the environment positively or negatively. Many previous studies have resulted in the efficient allocation of inputs as an environment-friendly component. This paper investigates the effects of energy efficiency on ecological footprint in the ASEAN region using balanced panel data from 2001 to 2019. First, this paper technically derives the energy efficiency, using the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) of the translog production type of single output and multiple inputs. Findings of the SFA show that the Philippines and Singapore have the highest energy efficiency (94%) and Laos has the lowest energy efficiency (85%) in the ASEAN region. The estimated average efficiency score of the ASEAN region was around 90%, ranging from 85% to 96%, indicating that there is still 10% room for improvement in energy efficiency. Second, this study employed the panel autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model to explore the short run and long run impact of technically derived energy efficiency on ecological footprint in the ASEAN region. Results of the panel ARDL model show that energy efficiency is a reducing factor of ecological footprint in the long run. Moreover, energy efficiency plays a significant role to control the environmental contaminations. In addition, results of this study also explored that urbanization is an increasing factor of ecological footprint, and investment in agriculture is also beneficial for the environment. Moreover, to obtain the directional nature of the associations between the ecological footprint and its independent variables, this paper has employed the paired-panel Granger causality test. The results of the paired wise panel Granger causality test also confirm that the energy efficiency, urbanization, and investment in agriculture cause ecological footprint. Finally, this study recommends that efficient utilization of energy resources as well as investment in agriculture are necessary for sustainable environment.

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“…There is a reverse relationship between the scale of agricultural land management and the yield of a single land. This is because, under the conditions of higher labor prices and lower capital prices, smallholders pursue higher output per unit area (Eastwood et al, 2010) and will choose to input relatively low-cost production factors, relying on chemical agricultural materials such as chemical fertilizers for production (Ali et al, 2020), increasing carbon emissions. At the same time, there is an opposite view that smallholder agricultural production should not have negative environmental effects.…”

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Impact of structure and organization of smallholders on agricultural carbon emissions

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Achieving carbon neutrality in agricultural production is a common challenge faced by agricultural development around the world. If China’s agriculture sector intends to achieve the “dual carbon” goal, the focus should be on the agricultural carbon emission of smallholder farmers and their organized production. This study discusses the impact of smallholder structure and organized production on carbon emission, and the interaction mechanism. To describe the causal relationship and mechanism, the structural degree of smallholder farmers and the total carbon emission in the regions were measured, the provincial panel data were constructed, and then the fixed-effects model and intermediary mechanism test were used for empirical analysis. The results show that in the current stage of agricultural development, the high proportion of smallholders in the region will lead to more agricultural carbon emissions. Although organized production services can reduce carbon emissions, the structure of smallholders will inhibit the scale of the organization, thus hindering carbon emission reduction. It is stated that inhibition is the intermediary path for carbon emissions. This study suggests that the government should improve policies to guide smallholders to operate on an appropriate scale, strengthen policies to encourage smallholders to use socialized agricultural production services, and support smallholders in developing highly valuable ecological agriculture.

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“…Moreover, the drastically reduced farmland and farmers' livelihood transformation limits the proper and efficient application of LPM as organic fertilizer, which further limits the LPM's harmless disposal or recycling (Dong et al, 2020;Haase et al, 2017). Over the past 30 years, a rich body of literature is focusing on the carbon emissions reductions arising from LPM to cope with environmental pollution (Ali et al, 2020;Won et al, 2020), such as adopting harmless disposal technologies (Jeswani et al, 2019), and boosting recycling efficiency (Lonappan et al, 2016;Won et al, 2020). But in the context of human health, only a few studies paid attention to the health damage caused by LPM pollution (Andersen et al, 2012;Beek, 2010).…”

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Risk Preference, Health Risk Perception, and Environmental Exposure Nexus: Evidence from Rural Women as Pig Breeders, China

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Does the prevailing Indian agricultural ecosystem cause carbon dioxide emission? A consent towards risk reduction

Cited by 24 publications

References 27 publications

Link between Technically Derived Energy Efficiency and Ecological Footprint: Empirical Evidence from the ASEAN Region

Link between Technically Derived Energy Efficiency and Ecological Footprint: Empirical Evidence from the ASEAN Region

Impact of structure and organization of smallholders on agricultural carbon emissions

Risk Preference, Health Risk Perception, and Environmental Exposure Nexus: Evidence from Rural Women as Pig Breeders, China

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