ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Agricultural and Food Economics
Volume 9 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2025.1659012
This article is part of the Research TopicHarnessing the Potential of Underutilized Crops: A Path to Food Security and Climate ResilienceView all 6 articles
Can Smart Rural Construction Improve Agricultural Products Supply Chain Resilience?---- Empirical Evidence of 31 Provinces in China
Provisionally accepted
- 1School of Economics and Management, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China
- 2Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macao, SAR China
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Introduction: The stable and secure supply of food and important agricultural products is related to the foundation of people's livelihoods and is a top priority for the country's economy and people's livelihoods. The construction of a robust supply chain system for agricultural products can help to effectively cope with the impact of international political conflicts, natural disasters, emergencies, and other uncertainties. At present, the problems of chain breakage and blockage in the agricultural products supply chain occur frequently, which affects food security, and it has become a pressing task to improve the resilience of the agricultural products supply chain by utilizing smart technology and other emerging forms. Methods: Based on panel data from 31 Chinese provinces (2013-2022), this study employs a two-way fixed effects model and a panel threshold model to analyze the impact mechanism of the smart rural construction on the resilience of the agricultural products supply chain. Composite indices for the smart rural construction and the resilience of the agricultural products supply chain were constructed using the entropy weight method. The robustness of these indices was rigorously tested through sensitivity analyses and by re-calculating the smart rural construction index using the coefficient of variation method. Results and Discussion: Ultimately, the results of the study show that smart rural construction can enhance the resilience of agricultural products supply chain, and can improve the resilience of agricultural products supply chain by promoting the upgrading of industrial structure; the effect of smart rural construction empowering the resilience of agricultural products supply chain is regionally This is a provisional file, not the final typeset article heterogeneous, and the positive effect is more significant in the central and western regions; the effect of smart rural construction empowering the resilience of agricultural products supply chain has a threshold effect. The conclusions of this paper show that the smart rural construction gives new momentum to the improvement of agricultural products supply chain resilience in China, and provides theoretical and practical guidance for the modernization of China's agriculture and rural areas and the construction of a strong agricultural products country.
Keywords: Smart rural construction1, Food security2, Agricultural products3, Supply chainresilience4, threshold effect5
Received: 03 Jul 2025; Accepted: 31 Aug 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Wang, Zheng and Ran. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Jiaojiao Zheng, School of Economics and Management, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China
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