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Agriculture, globalization, and ecological footprint: the role of agriculture beyond the tip** point in the Philippines

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This study is hinged on analyzing factors such as agriculture and globalization (de jure trade and financial) that threaten a sustainable environment using two proxies of ecological footprint: carbon and noncarbon ecological footprint in the Philippines while controlling for the influence of fossil to GDP, economic growth, urban population, and financial development using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) framework. The result provides evidence of long‐run stable state among the variables. The result validates inverted U‐shaped pattern of EKC involving relationship between agricultural development and ecological footprint for the Philippines indicating that initially, ecological footprint increases as the agriculture develops and then declines as the agriculture matures to generate efficiency and low carbon. In addition, this study explores elasticities of the variables using ARDL, FMOLS, DOLS, and CCR procedure and found that de jure financial globalization exerts positive influence on ecological footprint in the long run. De jure trade globalization is found to be negative and significant in the long run. It is also found that agricultural level operates below the threshold level required to maximize the growth benefits of agricultural system towards mitigating environmental sustainability. Further empirical result shows a positive relationship between economic growth, fossil fuel, urban-population growth, and ecological footprint, and negative insignificant relationship between credit to private sector and ecological footprint. The government should optimize the use of agricultural land through well-articulated economic integration strategy fashioned to pave way for cleaner and low-carbon technologies sources like solar, geothermal, biomass, biogas, tidal power, photovoltaic, and wind energy in the agricultural production to avoid further deterioration of the environment.

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O.B. Muoneke: conceptualization, writing — original draft, investigation, supervision, project administration. K.I. Okere: data curation, formal analysis, methodology, software. N.C. Nwaeze: resources, validation, writing — review and editing.

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Muoneke, O.B., Okere, K.I. & Nwaeze, C.N. Agriculture, globalization, and ecological footprint: the role of agriculture beyond the tip** point in the Philippines. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 54652–54676 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-19720-y

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