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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Agricultural and Food Economics
Volume 9 - 2025 |
doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2025.1540645
This article is part of the Research Topic Environmental Resilience and Sustainable Agri-food System Management View all 9 articles
How Does Science and Technology Finance Affect the Agricultural Green Development： An Interpretation from the Perspective of Rural Human Capital and Agricultural Industrial Agglomeration
Provisionally accepted- 1 Anhui Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Institute of Agricultural Economics and Information, Hefei, China
- 2 School of Economics and Management, Huzhou University, Huzhou, Zhejiang, China
- 3 Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
This study explores the impact of science and technology finance on agricultural green development and its mechanisms. The study finds that science and technology finance has a significant positive impact on agricultural green development and can effectively promote it. This conclusion remains robust after replacing the explained variables, adding control variables, removing samples from municipalities, and conducting endogeneity tests. The impact of science and technology finance on agricultural green development is significant across different regions, showing no obvious regional differences. Rural human capital acts as a mediator in the relationship between science and technology finance and agricultural green development, while agricultural industrial agglomeration has a certain "masking effect" on this relationship. The impact of science and technology finance on agricultural green development exhibits a complex non-linear relationship. When science and technology finance is used as a threshold variable, it shows a significant positive marginal effect that increases; however, when rural human capital and agricultural industrial agglomeration are used as threshold variables, it shows a significant positive marginal effect that decreases.
Keywords: Science and Technology Finance, Agricultural green development, rural human capital, agricultural industrial agglomeration, China
Received: 06 Dec 2024; Accepted: 03 Feb 2025.
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* Correspondence:
Guosong Wu, School of Economics and Management, Huzhou University, Huzhou, 313000, Zhejiang, China
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