China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 13 Issue 1

Impact of COVID-19 on China's agricultural trade

Lijuan Cao, Tianxiang Li, Rongbo Wang, Jing Zhu

The outbreak of the novel COVID-19 virus has spread throughout the world, causing unprecedented disruption to not only China's agricultural trade but also the world's agricultural…

Price bubbles in agricultural commodity markets and contributing factors: evidence for corn and soybeans in China

Qianqian Mao, Yanjun Ren, Jens-Peter Loy

The purpose of this paper is to detect the existence of price bubbles and examine the possible contributing factors that associate with price bubble occurrences in China…

Rural minimum living standard guarantee (rural Dibao) program boosts children's education outcomes in rural China

Zixuan He, Xiangming Fang, Nathan Rose, Xiaodong Zheng, Scott Rozelle

To combat poverty in China's rural areas, Chinese government has established an unconditional cash transfer program known as the Rural Minimum Living Standard Guarantee (Rural…

The impact of land renting-in on farm productivity: evidence from maize production in China

Tongwei Qiu, Qinying He, S.T. Boris Choy, Yifei Li, Biliang Luo

This study investigates the effect of renting in land on farm productivity, and the impacts of rented-in land size and transaction partner type on farm productivity.

Greening Chinese agriculture: can China use the EU experience?

Huanguang Qiu, C.F.A. van Wesenbeeck, W.C.M. van Veen

China's Government in 2015 announced its goal of stabilizing the use of fertilizers and pesticide by the year 2020. However, implementation of effective policies is not…

Price decline, land rental markets and grain production in the North China Plain

Qian Wang, Fan Li, Jin Yu, Luuk Fleskens, Coen J. Ritsema

This study examines the heterogeneous correlations between rural farmers' land renting behavior and their grain production when they experienced a significant price decline.

How country of origin influences Chinese consumers' evaluation of imported milk?

Yan Zhang, Shaosheng Jin, Yu Yvette Zhang, Xiaohua Yu

The purpose of this study is to decompose the effects of country-of-origin labeling (COOL) into multiple dimensions—macrolevel image, related to the country image, and microlevel…

A driver or a placebo? The role of financial support in farmer cooperative development in China

Qiao Liang, Yining Xu, Xinxin Wang, Songqing Jin

This paper explores the effect of financial support on farmer cooperative development in the Chinese context, aiming to evaluate the effectiveness of public inputs and draw…

Aspiration and poverty in an asymmetric information game: a case study of Southern Xinjiang

Shujie Yao, Jiefei Wang

The purpose of this paper is to reveal the internal mechanism of the deviation of targeted poverty alleviation under the condition of asymmetric information.

Improving China's alfalfa industry development: an economic analysis

Wenxin Wang

This study analyzes the factors which affect the alfalfa cultivation acreage in China and estimates the development of alfalfa planting by the supply model.

Inter-provincial correlations of agricultural GHG emissions in China based on social network analysis methods

Jiansheng Qu, Jinyu Han, Lina Liu, Li Xu, Hengji Li, Yujie Fan

The purpose of this paper is to explore the heterogeneity and correlations of agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions among provinces in China, and then policy implications…