ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Climate-Smart Food Systems
Volume 9 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2025.1646260
This article is part of the Research TopicConservation Agriculture For Food Security And Climate ResilienceView all 12 articles
Agricultural low-carbon transformation driven by the integration of agriculture and Tourism: Empirical Evidence from China
Provisionally accepted
- 1Changsha University, Changsha, China
- 2Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China
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Agricultural carbon emissions are a major source of global climate change. The new form of agricultural economy resulting from the deep integration of agriculture and tourism (IAT) provides an innovative solution for the low-carbon transformation of agriculture (LCTA). This study took the historical data of 30 provinces in China from 2010 to 2022 as the observation sample, and used methods such as the two-way fixed effects model and the quantile model to examine the impact effect and mechanism path of IAT on agricultural carbon reduction. The research results show that the technological effect, labor substitution and green environmental protection awareness of IAT are conducive to improving the green productivity of agriculture and leading to LCTA. This result still holds true after eliminating endogeneity and conducting multiple robustness tests. However, the positive effect of IAT on carbon emission reduction is heterogeneous. The results of the nonlinear test show that in areas with low agricultural carbon emissions, IAT will play a stronger positive role, while the positive role it can play in areas with high carbon emissions is limited.The results of the mechanism test show that IAT will indirectly promote LCTA through channels that facilitate land transfer and the aggregation of agricultural labor force. The results of this study are of guiding significance for accelerating the realization of sustainable development goal 13.
Keywords: integration of agriculture and tourism, Agricultural carbon emissions, agricultural socialized services, Land transfer, Industrial integration
Received: 13 Jun 2025; Accepted: 27 Aug 2025.
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* Correspondence: Donghui Pan, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China
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