China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 7 Issue 2

Climate change and the impacts on China’s agricultural interregional trade flows

Xian Xin, Tun Lin, Xiaoyun Liu, Guanghua Wan, Yongsheng Zhang

The impacts of climate change on agricultural production in the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) are significant, and differ across regions and crops. The substantial regional…

Effects of foreign direct investment in African agriculture

Don Gunasekera, Yiyong Cai, David Newth

The purpose of this paper is to review the key issues surrounding foreign direct investment (FDI) in agriculture, and examine the potential impacts of FDI in African agriculture…

Household-level linkages between off-farm employment and agricultural fixed assets in rural China

Weiliang Su, Chengfang Liu, Linxiu Zhang, Renfu Luo, Hongmei YI

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of off-farm employment on agricultural fixed assets among households in rural China.

Climate risk, income dynamics and nutrition intake in rural China

Li Zhou, Calum G. Turvey

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the linkages between climate change, income dynamics and nutrition intake in rural China.

Assessing the impact of China’s sloping land conversion program on household production efficiency under spatial heterogeneity and output diversification

Minjuan Zhao, Runsheng Yin, Liuyang Yao, Tao Xu

– The purpose of this paper is to assess how spatial heterogeneity and production diversification have affected the efficiency of households participating in the SLCP.

Urban economic development, changes in food consumption patterns and land requirements for food production in China

Li Jiang, Karen C. Seto, Junfei Bai

The impact of dietary changes associated with urbanization is likely to increase the demand for land for food production. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of…

Changes of China’s agri-food exports to Germany caused by its accession to WTO and the 2008 financial crisis

Zhichao Guo, Yuanhua Feng, Thomas Gries

The purpose of this paper is to investigate changes of China’s agri-food exports to Germany caused by China’s accession to WTO and the global financial crisis in a quantitative…

The development of farm labor market in rural China

Yi Che, Yan Zhang, Linhui Yu

– The purpose of this paper is to examine key determinants of farm labor market development in rural China.

Analysis of consumer demand for traceable pork in China based on a real choice experiment

Linhai Wu, Hongsha Wang, Dian Zhu

The purpose of this paper is to reveal the actual consumer demand for traceable pork by investigating consumer preferences for pork with combined levels of traceability…

Is the economic benefit of Bt cotton dying away in China

Fangbin Qiao, Yi Yao

The purpose of this paper is to try to empirically answer whether the economic benefit of Bt cotton is dying away in China. As the development of the pest resistance and the…