Technological innovation and agricultural performance in the ASEAN region: The role of digitalization

IF 6 1区经济学 Q1 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY

Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI:10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102939

Ode Htwee Thann , Zhao Yuhuan , Myne Uddin , Sumin Zuo

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Abstract

In the 21st century, technological innovation has become a crucial driver of economic transformation. It also contributes to agricultural performance, particularly through its influence on research intensity and labor productivity growth. However, its specific implications for agricultural performance in the ASEAN region remain insufficiently examined. Since the agricultural sector is essential for ensuring food security and sustaining rural livelihoods, understanding the intersection between innovation and agricultural outcomes becomes indispensable. This study explores how technological innovation impacts agricultural performance in the ASEAN region from 2000 to 2022, emphasizing the moderating role of digitalization. Using the Panel-Corrected Standard Errors (PCSE) model alongside various robustness tests, the study identifies several key findings. (1) Technological innovation enhances agricultural performance. (2) Technological innovation improves agricultural performance by increasing agricultural research intensity and labor productivity growth. (3) Digitalization positively moderates the effect of technological innovation on agricultural performance. (4) Digitalization further amplifies the impact of technological innovation on the production of crops, livestock, fisheries, agri-value added, and agri-export. (5) Heterogeneity analysis indicates that ASEAN countries with high levels of economic growth, agricultural reliance, and education experience the most significant benefits from technological innovation in agriculture. Hence, the study offers novel insights for policymakers at both macro and micro levels, advocating for improved regional collaboration, digital infrastructure, research and development, capacity building, and institutional reforms to foster technology-driven agricultural transformation in the ASEAN region.

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东盟地区的技术创新与农业绩效：数字化的作用

在21世纪，技术创新已成为经济转型的关键驱动力。它还有助于农业绩效，特别是通过其对研究强度和劳动生产率增长的影响。然而，它对东盟区域农业绩效的具体影响仍未得到充分审查。由于农业部门对确保粮食安全和维持农村生计至关重要，因此了解创新与农业成果之间的交集就变得必不可少。本研究探讨了2000 - 2022年东盟地区技术创新对农业绩效的影响，强调了数字化的调节作用。使用面板校正标准误差（PCSE）模型以及各种稳健性测试，该研究确定了几个关键发现。(1)技术创新提高农业绩效。(2)技术创新通过提高农业科研强度和劳动生产率提高农业绩效。(3)数字化正向调节技术创新对农业绩效的影响。(4)数字化进一步放大了技术创新对作物、畜牧业、渔业生产、农业附加值和农产品出口的影响。(5)异质性分析表明，经济增长水平、农业依存度和教育水平较高的东盟国家从农业技术创新中获得的收益最为显著。因此，该研究为宏观和微观层面的政策制定者提供了新颖的见解，倡导改善区域合作、数字基础设施、研发、能力建设和制度改革，以促进东盟地区技术驱动的农业转型。

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Food Policy 管理科学-农业经济与政策

CiteScore

11.40

自引率

4.60%

发文量

128

审稿时长

62 days

期刊介绍： Food Policy is a multidisciplinary journal publishing original research and novel evidence on issues in the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of policies for the food sector in developing, transition, and advanced economies. Our main focus is on the economic and social aspect of food policy, and we prioritize empirical studies informing international food policy debates. Provided that articles make a clear and explicit contribution to food policy debates of international interest, we consider papers from any of the social sciences. Papers from other disciplines (e.g., law) will be considered only if they provide a key policy contribution, and are written in a style which is accessible to a social science readership.