Department of Macroeconomics and Agricultural Economics, Poznań University of Economics and Business, 61-875, Poznań, Poland.
Department of Public Finance, Cracow University of Economics, Kraków, Poland.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2022 Mar;29(13):18641-18652. doi: 10.1007/s11356-021-17022-3. Epub 2021 Oct 25.
Because of global environmental problems, low-carbon agriculture has gained increasing importance both in developed and developing countries. Hence, there is a need to find ways to develop more efficient agricultural systems. The purpose of this article is to identify the drivers of low-carbon agriculture on farms in the Wielkopolska region (in Poland). We aimed to take an original approach to investigate low-carbon agriculture with a unique set of different economic and environmental variables and contribute to the literature, which is not very extensive in terms of microeconomic research, including research on farmers in the Wielkopolska region. Therefore, we employed a multiple-factor measurement model for structural equation modeling (SEM) of data collected individually from 120 farms in 2020. As a result, we formulated the following conclusions: the increasing productivity of factors (land, labor, and capital) have a positive effect on low-carbon farming, just as increasing fertilizer and energy efficiency. Moreover, thermal insulation is also important for low-carbon agriculture, with efficiency of fertilizer use being the most important factor. We believe that the issues of farm use of fertilizers and thermal insulation of buildings should be more broadly included in energy policy, both at the national and the European Union (EU) levels. Some of these factors however are already present in the common agricultural policy (CAP) for 2021-2027.
由于全球环境问题，低碳农业在发达国家和发展中国家都变得越来越重要。因此，需要寻找方法来发展更高效的农业系统。本文的目的是确定低碳农业在大波兰地区（波兰）农场的驱动因素。我们旨在采用独特的方法来研究低碳农业，使用一套独特的不同经济和环境变量，并为文献做出贡献，就微观经济研究而言，该文献还不是很广泛，包括对大波兰地区农民的研究。因此，我们使用了结构方程建模（SEM）的多因素测量模型，对 2020 年从 120 个农场单独收集的数据进行了分析。结果，我们得出以下结论：要素（土地、劳动力和资本）生产力的提高对低碳农业具有积极影响，就像提高肥料和能源效率一样。此外，隔热对低碳农业也很重要，肥料使用效率是最重要的因素。我们认为，在国家和欧盟（EU）层面上，应更广泛地将农场使用肥料和建筑物隔热等问题纳入能源政策。然而，其中一些因素已经包含在 2021-2027 年的共同农业政策（CAP）中。
