Impacts of water and land resources exploitation on agricultural carbon emissions: The water-land-energy-carbon nexus

Zhao, Rongqin; Liu, Ying; Tian, Mei; Ding, Mingyue; Cao, Lianhai; Zhang, Zhanping; Chuai, Xiaowei; Xiao, Liangang; Yao, Lunguang

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.12.029

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“…Agriculture consumes fossil fuel through the manufacture and use of internal combustion mechanization. Chemical inputs, including fertilizer and pesticides, are also petroleum-based [43]. Floating rice production can reduce CO 2 because it requires less petroleum derivates.…”

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UK Consumers’ Preferences for Ethical Attributes of Floating Rice: Implications for Environmentally Friendly Agriculture in Vietnam

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Vietnam plays an important role in bearing global food security. However, Vietnamese rice farmers face several challenges, including pressures to develop sustainable livelihoods while reducing the environmental impacts of their production activities. Various Vietnamese agricultural restructuring policies were promulgated to promote the adoption of environmentally friendly practices to generate high value added for rice farmers, but the farmers are reluctant to adopt them because of perceived lack of demand. Decreasing consumption of rice in Asia and increasing demands in Europe shaped Vietnamese rice exporting policies. New trade agreements, such as the UK–Vietnam Free Trade Agreement, offer new target markets for Vietnamese rice farmers. This research provides empirical evidence related to the preferences of UK consumers for ethical attributes for floating rice imported from Vietnam. Floating rice represents a traditional method of rice cultivation that relies on the natural flooding cycle. Its cultivation uses very few agrochemical inputs and provides several other environmental, economic, and social benefits. In an online survey, the study used a choice experiment that asked 306 UK consumers to report their preferences for one kilo of floating rice with three non-market attributes: reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, allocation of profits to the farmers, and restitution of biodiversity. Overall, study participants favored the attributes of floating rice, but reported utility for only the “fair trade” attribute and for a marginal willingness to pay premiums for profit allocations to farmers. Consumers did not find value in either CO2 emission reduction or biodiversity improvement. Results from the study provide recommendations to develop agricultural programs, distribution strategies, and informational methods to encourage floating rice consumption in the UK.

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“…Wu et al (2019) [ 20 ] used the LMDI decomposition method to study the impact of energy structure, energy intensity, economic output, and population size on China’s provincial carbon emissions. Zhao et al (2018) [ 21 ] decomposed the driving factors of agricultural carbon emissions into economic output of water resources, water-land resource ratio, population factor, per capita land use area and agricultural carbon emission intensity and discussed the relationship between water and land resource development and agricultural carbon emissions. Yao et al (2019) [ 22 ] applied the LMDI decomposition method to the analysis of water intensity, decomposing the spatial and temporal differences in water intensity into intensity effects and structural effects.…”

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Research on the Decoupling of Water Resources Utilization and Agricultural Economic Development in Gansu Province from the Perspective of Water Footprint

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Yuan

Pang

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Objectively evaluating the decoupling status of water resources utilization and economic development is an important sign of judging the sustainability of regional economic development. From the perspective of water footprint (WF), this paper expands the scope of water resources accounting by assessing agricultural blue WF, green WF and gray WF. The Tapio decoupling index was used to explore the decoupling status of agricultural WF and economic development in Gansu Province from 2006 to 2015, and the logarithmic mean divisor index (LMDI) decomposition model was used to identify the main driving factors of agricultural WF changes and explore the degree of divergence between agricultural economic development and water resources utilization. The results showed that agricultural economic growth was a main factor for the increase of WF; the improvement of agricultural production technology had a restraining effect, and the population effect and structural effect had a lesser effect. During the research period, the relationship between agricultural WF and economic growth in Gansu Province changed from weak decoupling to strong decoupling, and the contributing factors to decoupling were in descending order: economic, technological, structural and population. Finally, this paper puts forward suggestions on optimizing planting structure, improving agricultural technology and economic development mode to promote the sustainable development of local agriculture.

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“…Gerlagh applied the endogenous technological progress model to study the influence of technological progress on carbon emission reduction [18] and confirmed that technological progress significantly reduced the cost of carbon emission reduction through the learning effect and increased the social benefits at the same time. Furthermore, agricultural land also affects the agricultural carbon emissions, such as per capita land use area [19], agricultural land use [20] and farmland conversion [21,22]. Besides, there also exists a close relationship between agricultural income and carbon emissions [23].…”

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“…Reducing per capita arable land area (ALA) will reduce the total agricultural energy demand per capita, such as chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and plastic film, thus restraining agricultural carbon emissions [19]. However, if the per capita arable land area were reduced through the transformation of cultivated land to industrial land, the greenhouse effect would be aggravated [49].…”

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Spatial-Temporal Characteristics of the Driving Factors of Agricultural Carbon Emissions: Empirical Evidence from Fujian, China

Chen

et al. 2019

Energies

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With the development of agricultural modernization, the carbon emissions caused by the agricultural sector have attracted academic and practitioners’ circles’ attention. This research selected the typical agricultural development province in China, Fujian, as the research object. Based on the carbon emission sources of five main aspects in agricultural production, this paper applied the latest carbon emission coefficients released by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the UN (IPCC) and World Resources Institute (WRI), then used the ordered weighted aggregation (OWA) operator to remeasure agricultural carbon emissions in Fujian from 2008–2017. The results showed that the amount of agricultural carbon emissions in Fujian was 5541.95 × 103 tonnes by 2017, which means the average amount of agricultural carbon emissions in 2017 was 615.78 × 103 tonnes, with a decrease of 13.13% compared with that in 2008. In terms of spatial distribution, agricultural carbon emissions in the eastern coastal areas were less than those in the inland regions. Among them, the highest agricultural carbon emissions were in Zhangzhou, Nanping, and Sanming, while the lowest were in Xiamen, Putian, and Ningde. In addition, this paper selected six influencing variables, the research and development intensity, the proportion of agricultural labor force, the added value of agriculture, the agricultural industrial structure, the per capita disposable income of rural residents, and per capita arable land area, to clarify further the impacts on agricultural carbon emissions. Finally, geographically- and temporally-weighted regression (GTWR) was used to measure the direction and degree of the influences of factors on agricultural carbon emission. The conclusion showed that the regression coefficients of each selected factor in cities were positive or negative, which indicated that the impacts on agricultural carbon emission had the characteristics of geospatial nonstationarity.

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Impacts of water and land resources exploitation on agricultural carbon emissions: The water-land-energy-carbon nexus

Cited by 145 publications

References 82 publications

UK Consumers’ Preferences for Ethical Attributes of Floating Rice: Implications for Environmentally Friendly Agriculture in Vietnam

UK Consumers’ Preferences for Ethical Attributes of Floating Rice: Implications for Environmentally Friendly Agriculture in Vietnam

Research on the Decoupling of Water Resources Utilization and Agricultural Economic Development in Gansu Province from the Perspective of Water Footprint

Spatial-Temporal Characteristics of the Driving Factors of Agricultural Carbon Emissions: Empirical Evidence from Fujian, China

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