China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 4 Issue 4

The impact of US biofuel policies on agricultural price levels and volatility

Bruce A. Babcock

The purpose of this paper is to examine the market impacts of US biofuels and biofuel policies.

Household Engel curve analysis for food, Beijing, China

James L. Seale, Junfei Bai, Thomas I. Wahl, Bryan T. Lohmar

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the income sensitivity of food consumption in Beijing, China, using an original household survey data set collected by the Chinese Academy…

Did agricultural technological changes affect China's regional disparity?

Xiaoyun Liu, Xiuqing Wang, Xian Xin

China's agricultural sector has developed very rapidly in the past 30 years and agricultural technological progress is deemed one of the most substantial factors leading to its…

Investigating agricultural productivity improvements in transition economies

Supawat Rungsuriyawiboon, Xiaobing Wang

This paper aims to conduct inter‐country analysis of agricultural productivity growth in transition countries in Asia and Europe. This paper pays particular attention to the…

Pesticide use and farmers' health in China's rice production

Fangbin Qiao, Jikun Huang, Linxiu Zhang, Scott Rozelle

The purpose of this study is trying to document and examine the impacts of pesticide use on farmers' health. Different from previous studies, the paper is not only going to focus…

Clean development mechanism in North‐South trade

Chu Ping Lo

There is great conflict between some developed countries and developing countries regarding attitudes toward reducing global warming (e.g. the USA vs China). The aim of this paper…

China's soybean product imports: an analysis of price effects using a production system approach

Wei Chen, Mary A. Marchant, Andrew Muhammad

The purpose of this paper is to estimate China's demand for imported soybeans and soybean oil from both country‐of‐origin and product form perspectives.

Disaggregated consumer prices and oil price pass‐through: evidence from Malaysia

Mansor H. Ibrahim, Rusmawati Said

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the oil price pass‐through into consumer price inflation for a developing country: Malaysia. The focus is on whether aggregate consumer…

Food price and biofuels

H. Holly Wang, Xian Xin