Does Cleaner Household Energy Promote Agricultural Green Production? Evidence from China

Fanghua Li; Wei Liang; Dungang Zang; Abbas Ali Chandio; Yinying Duan

doi:10.3390/ijerph191610197

Does Cleaner Household Energy Promote Agricultural Green Production? Evidence from China

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Aug 17;19(16):10197. doi: 10.3390/ijerph191610197.

Authors

Fanghua Li¹, Wei Liang², Dungang Zang¹, Abbas Ali Chandio¹, Yinying Duan²

Affiliations

¹ College of Economics, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China.
² School of Business & Tourism, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611830, China.

Abstract

Cleaner household energy for agricultural green production can significantly alleviate energy poverty and food security, thus contributing to global sustainable development. Using survey micro-data collected from Sichuan Province, the ordered probit model, OLS model, and instrumental variables approach were applied for empirical analysis. The results show that: (1) cleaner household energy significantly enhances farmer's agricultural green production awareness and improves agricultural green production levels, which is still significant after treating endogenous issues with the conditional mixing process estimation method and 2SLS model; (2) health plays a partially mediating effect of cleaner household energy on agricultural green production awareness and agricultural green production levels; (3) environmental protection awareness and digital literacy have a moderating effect and reinforce the positive impact of cleaner household energy on agricultural green production awareness and agricultural green production levels. This research suggests that governments can enhance the impact of cleaner household energy on agricultural green production through price and subsidy mechanisms.

Keywords: Sichuan Province; agricultural green production awareness; agricultural green production level; cleaner household energy; iv-o-probit model.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Agriculture* / methods
China
Family Characteristics*
Poverty
Sustainable Development

Grants and funding

This study was supported by the Youth Project of National Social Science Foundation of China (grant number 17CGL012) and the Key Project of Social Science Planning of Sichuan Province (grant number SC21A016).