Abstract: Under the goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, stimulating the endogenous motivation of farmers to participate in low-carbon production plays an important element to improve the mechanism of agricultural ecological environment and promote rural revitalization in the new period. This paper constructs a theoretical logical framework of "grassroots organizations embedding-rural sense of belonging-farmers' low-carbon production behaviour". Based on the survey data of micro-farmers, the Ordered Logit regression model is used to test the influence of grassroots organizations embedding on farmers' low-carbon production behaviour, and the mediating effect of rural sense of belonging in the influence of grassroots organizations embedding on farmers' low-carbon production behaviour is tested using the mediating effect model. The results show that the depth and breadth of embedding of grassroots organizations can significantly contribute to farmers' participation in low-carbon production, and that the relationship remains significant after adjusting for possible endogeneity issues in the model. Following robustness tests of the baseline regressions by three strategies:the substitution model estimation method, the replacement core explanatory variables method and the random sampling 2/3 sample method, the effect of grassroots organizations embedding on farmers' low-carbon production behaviour remains unchanged. There is a significant mediating effect of rural sense of belonging on the influence of grassroots embedding on low-carbon production behaviour, with both the depth and breadth of embedding significantly increasing the probability of farmers' participation in low-carbon production by enhancing their rural sense of belonging. Therefore, this paper presents policy recommendations to stimulate the willingness of grassroots organizations to embed low-carbon agricultural production, develop innovative modes of promoting low-carbon agricultural production, and enhance the integration of low-carbon agricultural production with people's well-being.

Key words: carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals, farmers' low-carbon production behavior, grassroots organizations embedding, rural sense of belonging