China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 5 Issue 1

Migration, remittances, and agricultural productivity in small farming systems in Northwest China

Lihua Li, Chenggang Wang, Eduardo Segarra, Zhibiao Nan

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between migration, remittances and agricultural productivity by applying the new economics of labor migration model in the…

Efficiency measurements in multi‐activity data envelopment analysis with shared inputs: An application to farmers' cooperatives in Taiwan

Po‐Chi Chen, Shih‐Hsun Hsu, Ching‐Cheng Chang, Ming‐Miin Yu

The paper aims to propose a modified multi‐activity data envelopment analysis (MDEA) to provide information on the efficiency performance of farmers' cooperatives with inputs…

The effects of different types of trust on consumer perceptions of food safety: An empirical study of consumers in Beijing Municipality, China

Weiping Chen

The aim of this research is to empirically investigate how different types of trust relate to consumer perceptions of food safety.

Asset endowments, non‐farm participation and local separability in remote rural China

Yicheng Liang, Marcus W. Feldman, Shuzhuo Li, Gretchen C. Daily

The aim of this paper is to address a local separability character partly identified by non‐farm participation behaviors in the context of multiple market imperfections.

Income vs price subsidy: policy options to help the urban poor facing food price surge

Huang Chunyan, Zhong Funing, He Jun

The purpose of this paper is to analyze and compare the costs of price and income subsidies when the food security policy targets the urban poor. The result may help policymakers…

The feasibility of replacing the sliding scale duty with cotton subsidies in China

Xuejun Wang, Koshi Maeda, Xuefeng Mao

This paper aims to determine whether domestic cotton support permitted by the current or potential World Trade Organization (WTO) rules would be sufficient to compensate the cost…

A typology of food security in developing countries

Bingxin Yu, Lingzhi You

The recent high food price and volatility, as well as economic recession, have reversed the last decade's progress in reducing hunger and poverty. This aim of this paper is to…

Forest land rights, tenure types, and farmers' investment incentives in China: An empirical study of Fujian Province

Ping Qin, Jintao Xu

The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of land rights and tenure types on farmers' investment behavior in Chinese collective forests, using household survey data from…