Zafeiriou E., Karelakis C., Martínez-Zarzoso I., Galanopoulos K., Gkika D. (2023). Economic development and pesticide use in EU agriculture: a nonlinear panel data autoregressive distributed lag approach. Agriculture, 01/09/2023, vol. 13, n. 9, p. 1693.
https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13091693
https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13091693
Titre : | Economic development and pesticide use in EU agriculture: a nonlinear panel data autoregressive distributed lag approach (2023) |
Auteurs : | E. Zafeiriou ; C. Karelakis ; I. Martínez-Zarzoso ; K. Galanopoulos ; D. Gkika |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Agriculture (vol. 13, n. 9, September 2023) |
Article en page(s) : | p. 1693 |
Langues : | Anglais |
Langues du résumé : | Anglais |
Catégories : |
Catégories principales 06 - AGRICULTURE. FORÊTS. PÊCHES ; 6.5 - Gestion des ExploitationsThésaurus IAMM AGRICULTURE ; PESTICIDE ; REVENU AGRICOLE ; DEVELOPPEMENT ECONOMIQUE ; EUROPE |
Résumé : | Within the regime established by the Directive on Sustainable Use of Pesticides (SUDP); the present work explores the relationship between pesticides agricultural use per hectare of cropland and the GDP per capita of the rural population for twenty-five EU countries to unveil the efficiency of the current EU strategy. With the econometric tool of panel nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) cointegration technique; we try to capture potential asymmetries in the agricultural use of pesticides concerning positive and negative variations in agricultural income. The findings validate the existence of a long-run relationship that supports an Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC); i.e., an inverted U-shaped relationship between the variables; since increasing agricultural income is related to reductions in the use of pesticides after the turning point. Even though this result is not validated in the short run; our findings confirm the existence of a steady-state situation with asymmetric responses to pesticides. In terms of policy implications; more measures need to be taken; along with the education of farmers; aiming to enhance their consciousness towards environmental issues and; in consequence; for them to prefer environmentally friendly plant protection methods over chemical ones. |
Cote : | En ligne |
URL / DOI : | https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13091693 |