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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Agricultural and Food Economics
Volume 8 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1446410
This article is part of the Research Topic Strategies Of Digitalization And Sustainability In Agrifood Value Chains View all 20 articles

The role of the digital economy on the coordinated development of green agriculture and food security: Evidence from China

Provisionally accepted
Jing Tian Jing Tian Chang Liu Chang Liu *
  • College of Economics and Management, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China

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    Promoting the coordinated development of green agriculture and food security is important for global sustainable development, and digital economy is a potential path to realizing this goal. Using panel data of 30 provinces (municipalities directly under the central government and autonomous regions) in China from 2014 to 2021, this study applies the entropy weight method and the coupling coordination degree model to measure the development of the digital economy and the coordination of green agriculture and food security. Moreover, the study constructs fixed-effects and spatial spillover effect models to determine the effect of the digital economy on the coordination of green agriculture and food security. We find a positive development trend between digital economy and coordination development in China, with no evident polarization phenomenon. The digital economy can effectively promote the coordinated development of green agriculture and food security, and has positive spatial spillover effects. Our findings expand the research related to the digital economy, and contribute to the promotion of sustainable agricultural development and food security. 4

    Keywords: Digital Economy (DE), Green Agriculture, Food security, Coupling coordination model (CCM), Spatial Durbin model (SDM)

    Received: 09 Jun 2024; Accepted: 26 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Tian and Liu. 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: Chang Liu, College of Economics and Management, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, 150030, Heilongjiang Province, China

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