ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Agricultural and Food Economics
Volume 9 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2025.1576230
This article is part of the Research TopicHarnessing Digital Innovation for Sustainable Agricultural DevelopmentView all 34 articles
Low-carbon effects of farmers' digital economy participation: Further discussing digital equality
Provisionally accepted
Xinyao Wang1*
xinyi Li2- 1Heilongjiang University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China
- 2Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China
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Under the urgent need to deal with climate change and achieve the dual-carbon goal, integrating the digital economy and traditional agriculture has become an important starting point for promoting the low-carbon agricultural transformation. In the context of the digital economy, it will be more practical to pay attention to the main role of micro-farmers in low-carbon agricultural development. Therefore, this paper uses farmer survey data from 10 provinces in China, including Guangdong, Zhejiang, Shandong, and Heilongjiang, to study the impact and mechanism of digital economy participation on farmers' low-carbon production performance. This study shows that digital economy participation can significantly improve farmers' low-carbon production performance. Farmers' low-carbon production willingness and low-carbon production behavior are important ways for digital economy participation to exert low-carbon effects. Farmers with rural elite status and outworking who participate in the digital economy will actively improve their low-carbon production performance. The study further found that digital economic inequality will impact the low-carbon effect of farmers' digital economy participation. This effect is more obvious for farmers with older age and lower education levels.
Keywords: digital economy participation, farmer carbon productivity, digital inequality, low-carbon agricultural production performance, "dual carbon" goal
Received: 13 Feb 2025; Accepted: 15 Aug 2025.
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* Correspondence: Xinyao Wang, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, 130012, Heilongjiang Province, China
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