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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Environ. Sci.
Sec. Land Use Dynamics
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2025.1538589
This article is part of the Research Topic Moving Towards Sustainable Development: Exploring the Impact of Land-Use Policies on Land Green Utilization Efficiency View all articles

The Impact of Land Transfer on Food Security: The Mediating Role of Environmental Regulation and Green Technology Innovation

Provisionally accepted
Ming Xu Ming Xu *Zhaoyang Lu Zhaoyang Lu
  • Southwest University of Political Science & Law, Chongqing, China

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    Food security is the lifeblood of national security and an important cornerstone for world peace, stability, and development. Based on the empirical data of 30 provinces in China from 2010 to 2022, this paper uses a two-way fixed-effect model to explore the role of land transfer (LT) in promoting food security (FS). Empirical studies show that land transfer significantly improves food security, especially in the eastern region. In addition, environmental regulation and the implementation and application of green technology innovation strengthen this benefit, proving that it has a mediating effect.The quantile model is used to further explore the relationship between the two, and it is found that the region with higher land turnover has a higher promoting effect on food security, and the spatial Durbin model is used to find that the impact of land turnover on food security has a spillover effect, which will drive the development of food security in neighboring regions. The study suggests that government departments should strengthen policy support and supervision of land transfer, combine environmental regulation and green technology innovation, optimize the allocation of agricultural human resources, and deepen land policy reform to optimize land resource utilization and food industry security.

    Keywords: Land transfer, Food security, environmental regulation, Green technology innovation, land resource optimization

    Received: 03 Dec 2024; Accepted: 20 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Xu and Lu. 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: Ming Xu, Southwest University of Political Science & Law, Chongqing, China

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