China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 1 Issue 2

Review of China's agricultural and rural development: policy changes and current issues

Xiwen Chen

Since the start of the twenty‐first century China has stepped into a new stage of harmonious urban‐rural development. Based on the brief review of policy changes since the new…

A conceptual framework for supply chain governance: An application to agri‐food chains in China

Xiaoyong Zhang, Lusine H. Aramyan

Chinese agri‐food chains consist of the millions of small scale farmers, who are not well structured and organized in the supply chain. Owing to market liberalization and…

Business and financial risks of small farm households in China

Calum G. Turvey, Rong Kong

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships between business risks and credit choices of 400 farm households surveyed in Shaanxi province in October 2007 in the…

Cross‐sectional analysis of food demand in the North Central, Nigeria: The quadratic almost ideal demand system (QUAIDS) approach

Abiodun Elijah Obayelu, V.O. Okoruwa, O.I.Y. Ajani

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of socio‐economic variables on households' food demand. This paper derived the indirect utility function in terms of expenditure…

A gendered view of reforming health care access for farmers in China

Huixia Liu, Linxiu Zhang, Gale Summerfield, Yaojiang Shi

The social safety net of health care insurance is rapidly expanding in rural China. New Rural Cooperative Medical System (NRCMS) programs proliferated between the national decree…

The structure and reform of rural finance in China

Pei Guo, Xiangping Jia

Historically, China's political attempts to provide access to rural credit has met with mixed results and an institutional structure that often strays from intended policy goals…

Changing patterns in comparative advantage for agricultural trade in East Asian countries

Liu Heguang, Minoru Tada, Sun Dongsheng

Economies in East Asia are at different development stages. Economic development has an impact on factor endowments and the intensities, then on the mode of agricultural trade. To…