China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 6 Issue 2

Microfinance through non-governmental organizations and its effects on formal and informal credit: Evidence from rural China

Cheng Xiang, Xiangping Jia, Jikun Huang

Internationally, microfinance run by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is often considered an important approach to meeting the credit demand of rural households, particularly…

Consumer willingness to pay for organic fresh milk in Taiwan

Chin-Huang Huang, Chun-Hung Lee

The Fresh Milk Logo certifies that dairy product sold in Taiwan really is fresh milk. However, the logo represents only a moral pledge by the manufacturer. No method exists for…

Hedging effectiveness of weather index-based insurance in China

Niels Pelka, Oliver Musshoff, Robert Finger

Maize production in China is exposed to pronounced yield risks, in particular weather risk, which is one of the most important and least controllable sources of risk in…

Mismatch: Land reallocations, recovery land rental and land rental market development in rural China

Yi Che

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the relative impacts of full-scale land reallocation (FLR) and partial-scale land reallocation (PLR) on household land rental behavior in…

Competitiveness analysis of Egyptian cotton exports with special focus on the Chinese market

Assem Abu Hatab, Eirik Romstad

The expected growth of China's cotton imports along with Egypt's quest for penetrating new cotton importing markets have together attracted the authors to investigate the…

Food safety incidents’ influence on the food industry : How food companies perceive environments and how they react strategically

Kaisheng Zeng, Xiaohui Luo, Yinglin Liu

The purposes of this paper are to find out the correlations between the changes of food companies’ environments and the strategic reactions of food companies after the media…

Product information and Chinese consumers’ willingness-to-pay for fair trade coffee

Shang-Ho Yang, Ping Qing, Wuyang Hu, Yun Liu

The purpose of this paper is to investigate Chinese consumers’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) for fair trade coffee given different amount of product information. Although coffee is…

The demand for credit, credit rationing and the role of microfinance: Evidence from poor rural counties of China

Enjiang Cheng, Abdullahi D. Ahmed

The purpose of this study is to examine the demand for credit and credit rationing conducted by formal, informal and emerging microfinance lenders in the four poor counties of…

Evolution of the Chinese rural-urban migrant labor market from 2002 to 2007

Zhaopeng Frank Qu, Zhong Zhao

– The purpose of this paper is to study the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data sets.

Identifying risks inherent in farmer cooperatives in China

Ying Zhang, Zu Hui Huang

The purpose of this paper is to investigate risks faced by farmer cooperatives in China, using farmer cooperatives in Zhejiang province as a case. Specifically, the authors…