On September 7, 2024, the 8th "Rural, Agriculture, and Farmer Forum" was successfully held in Beijing. Two members from UNEP-IEMP participated in the forum. The forum featured 42 papers centered around the theme of "Coordinating Urban-Rural Integrated Development and Advancing Comprehensive Rural Revitalization," with a focus on exploring how to uphold the integration of new-type urbanization and comprehensive rural revitalization, while continuously safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods amidst development.
The Ph.D. candidate Xuan Zhichong presented a report titled "Development of E-commerce and Dietary Quality of Rural Residents: An Empirical Study Based on the ‘National Rural E-commerce Comprehensive Demonstration Policy’", which was nominated for the Best Paper Award at the forum. This paper analyzes the impact of e-commerce on the dietary quality of rural residents and its mechanisms. The master student Xu Yue presented on "Total Factor Productivity and GHG emissions intensity of Crop Planting: Evidence Based on the Fixed Observation Rural Survey in China", which empirically examined the impact of total factor productivity on crop cultivation carbon emissions and delved into its underlying mechanisms.
This successful forum showcased the current research achievements and practical explorations in the "rural, agriculture, and farmer" field, while also providing a learning and exchange platform for advancing related work in the future. UNEP-IEMP will continue to deepen cooperation with various sectors, incorporate the dimensions of "climate change", "biodiversity conservation" and "desertification control" into the research and practice of "three rural", and jointly contribute wisdom and strength to the development of the "three rural" causes.
