China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 10 Issue 1

40 years of China’s rural reform: review and prospect

Baozhong Su

The Great Exodus: How agricultural surplus laborers have been transferred and reallocated in China’s reform period?

Fang Cai

The purpose of this paper is to review the process of rural labor reallocation and unfolds its growth effect through sufficiently supplying human resources, preventing diminishing…

40-year reform of farmland institution in China: target, effort and the future

Biliang Luo

Based on the brief historical review, the purpose of this paper is to expound the target and bottom line for the farmland institutional reform of in China, analyze the “Chinese…

From taxing to subsidizing farmers in China post-1978

Kym Anderson

The purpose of this paper is to document the pace and extent to which China’s policy regime has transitioned over the past four decades from explicitly and implicitly taxing to…

Agricultural organizations and the role of farmer cooperatives in China since 1978: past and future

Zuhui Huang, Qiao Liang

During the past four decades, agriculture and rural development in China has scored a great progress. Organization institution in agriculture is one of the domains with drastic…

Engel curve, farmer welfare and food consumption in 40 years of rural China

Xiaohua Yu

The purpose of this paper is to review the theoretical background, methodological extensions, and empirical applications of the Engel curve, which is applied to the research of…

Agri-environment policy for grain production in China: toward sustainable intensification

Xiao-qiang Jiao, Gang He, Zhen-ling Cui, Jian-bo Shen, Fu-suo Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the historical pattern of environmental cost due to grain production in China and to provide further implications of technologies and…

Rural education across China’s 40 years of reform: past successes and future challenges

Ai Yue, Bin Tang, Yaojiang Shi, Jingjing Tang, Guanminjia Shang, Alexis Medina, Scott Rozelle

The purpose of this paper is to describe the policy and trends in rural education in China over the past 40 years; and also discuss a number of challenges that are faced by…

How peer monitoring and punishment affect the performance of the group contract: An experimental study on the control of non-point source pollution

Dan Wu, Yefeng Chen, Weiwen Zhang, Xiaoshi Xing

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of three types of peer monitoring and punishment tools on the performance of a group contract for the control of…

Estimation of market equilibrium values for apple attributes

Jong Woo Choi, Chengyan Yue, James Luby, Shuoli Zhao, Karina Gallardo, Vicki McCracken, Jim McFerson

Development of new cultivars requires extensive genetic knowledge, trained personnel, and significant financial resources, so it is crucial for breeders to focus on the attributes…

Review and bibliometric analysis of Chinese agricultural economics research: 2006-2015

Qiuhong Chen, Ning Geng, Kan Zhu

The purpose of this paper is to reveal the distributional characteristics and evolutional patterns in source periodicals, topics, authors, funding, and institutes of research…

Agricultural Insurance: Theory, Empirical Research and Experience – Based on Farmers Household Data

Ruihua Yang

Agricultural competitiveness in China: Assessment, challenge and options – a summary of CAER-IFPRI 2017 Annual International Conference

Qihui Chen, Yitian Xiao, Ling Ma, Baozhong Su