ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Agricultural and Food Economics
Volume 9 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2025.1598130
How can green finance promote the synergistic development of agricultural ecological environment and productivity?
Provisionally accepted
Liangcan Liu
Xiang Li*- School of Business Administration, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, China
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By maintaining soil health and optimizing water resources management, agricultural ecological total factor productivity (AETFP) builds a basic defense line of safe food supply and environmental balance, effectively reduce the spread of chemical pollution and improve the quality of nutrition supply, thus providing a strategic fulcrum for the management of public health sources. Based on the provincial panel data of China from 2012 to 2022, AETFP was estimated using EBM-GML model by incorporating the agricultural ecological value into the desirable output, and the influence mechanism of green finance on the AETFP was discussed by using fixed effect model and spatial econometric model. The results showed that the AETFP in all regions of China was steadily improving, especially in the eastern region. Green finance not only promotes the improvement of AETFP in local and surrounding areas, but also improves AETFP by improving agricultural industrial agglomeration. Heterogeneity analysis shows that the promotion effect of green finance is particularly obvious in eastern regions, major grainproducing regions and regions with high digital infrastructure. This study provides empirical support for the paradigm transformation of agroecosystem governance from end-treatment to source prevention and control.
Keywords: green finance, Agricultural ecological value, total factor productivity, industrial agglomeration, Spatial spillover effect
Received: 06 Apr 2025; Accepted: 28 Jul 2025.
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* Correspondence: Xiang Li, School of Business Administration, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, China
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