Abstract
High-quality development has become a new requirement for China’s social and economic development. As an important industry related to the national economy and people’s livelihood, achieving high-quality development in agriculture has become the most urgent task currently facing agriculture. This study focuses on agricultural eco-efficiency to indicate spatial distribution of high-quality development based on agricultural input–output data from 2001 to 2019 and the SBM-Undesired model; this study focuses on Agricultural Eco-efficiency, a key indicator related to the high-quality development of agriculture, to measure the temporal and spatial evolution of Agricultural Eco-efficiency. The results show that the Agricultural Eco-efficiency has increased from 0.363 in 2001 to 0.818 in 2019, with a growth rate of 125.34%, and the provinces with higher agricultural eco-efficiency are mainly located in the eastern regions. In addition, there is a U-shaped change trend between Agricultural Eco-efficiency and the total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery. In other words, the provinces with the total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery in the low range and high range enjoy higher Agricultural Eco-efficiency. Compared with the eastern region, the middle reaches of Yellow River and middle reaches of Yangtze River have great potential to reduce carbon emissions. In order to achieve high-quality agricultural development, it is necessary to pay attention to key indicators for improving Agricultural Eco-efficiency, and the technology development of the central and western regions will be very useful to decrease the gap.
Highlights
In 2021, the COP 26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow highlighted a crucial time mode for mankind’s positive actions and explained that the 10 years will be a crucial last window
The average value of Agricultural Eco-efficiency increased from 0.363 to 0.818, with a growth of 125.34%
The provinces with higher Agricultural Eco-efficiency are mainly located in the eastern region, such as Zhejiang, Shanghai, Shandong, and Jiangsu
Summary
In 2021, the COP 26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow highlighted a crucial time mode for mankind’s positive actions and explained that the 10 years will be a crucial last window. If we do not take positive actions in time, humans and the Earth will face unimaginable natural disasters, such as sea level rise and biological extinction. Global warming of 2°C will have a wide-ranging and serious impact on humans and nature (Liu, 2019). Almost all warm water coral reefs will be destroyed, and Arctic sea ice will completely melt at least one summer every 10 years, generating devastating effects on the wildlife and communities they support. The latest “Emissions Gap Report” released by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) shows that despite the global climate ambitions and “net
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