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<p>Reducing agricultural carbon emissions is deemed crucial in alleviating global warming, significantly impacting sustainable economic and green agricultural development. The digital economy introduces new prospects for achieving agricultural carbon emission reduction. We view China’s National Big Data Comprehensive Pilot Zone (BDCPZ) policy as a representative case of the digital economy to construct an empirical analysis framework. Utilizing panel data covering 30 provinces in China from 2005 to 2022, this study applies the Multi-period difference in difference (DID) method to study how the digital economy affects agricultural carbon emissions. Our findings demonstrate that BDCPZ policy significantly diminishes agricultural carbon emissions in pilot areas, with agricultural technological innovation and agricultural industry structure upgrading being effective mechanisms. Additionally, this effect exhibits heterogeneous impacts regarding the urban-rural income gap, agricultural human capital, and insurance development. This research offers crucial theoretical support for fostering green agriculture transformation. Furthermore, they offer a feasible pathway for enhancing the digitization level of agriculture.</p>

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Can the digital economy mitigate agricultural carbon emissions? — A quasi-natural experiment based on China’s National Big Data Comprehensive Pilot Zone

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    2025年9月26日

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  • Jianli Luo,
  • Chenchen Liu,
  • Yanhu Bai

摘要

Reducing agricultural carbon emissions is deemed crucial in alleviating global warming, significantly impacting sustainable economic and green agricultural development. The digital economy introduces new prospects for achieving agricultural carbon emission reduction. We view China’s National Big Data Comprehensive Pilot Zone (BDCPZ) policy as a representative case of the digital economy to construct an empirical analysis framework. Utilizing panel data covering 30 provinces in China from 2005 to 2022, this study applies the Multi-period difference in difference (DID) method to study how the digital economy affects agricultural carbon emissions. Our findings demonstrate that BDCPZ policy significantly diminishes agricultural carbon emissions in pilot areas, with agricultural technological innovation and agricultural industry structure upgrading being effective mechanisms. Additionally, this effect exhibits heterogeneous impacts regarding the urban-rural income gap, agricultural human capital, and insurance development. This research offers crucial theoretical support for fostering green agriculture transformation. Furthermore, they offer a feasible pathway for enhancing the digitization level of agriculture.