China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 12 Issue 4

How to promote rural revitalization via introducing skilled labor, deepening land reform and facilitating investment?

Jun Han

This article revealed the difficulties that lie ahead of implementation of the rural revitalization strategy.

The impact of alternative policies on livestock farmers' willingness to recycle manure: evidence from central China

Qian Li, Jingjing Wang, Xiaoyang Wang, Yubin Wang

This article examines the impact of different policy instruments on livestock farmers' willingness to recycle manure. The results shed light on the optimal policy combination.

Linking agriculture to nutrition: the evolution of policy

Shenggen Fan, Sivan Yosef, Rajul Pandya-Lorch

The purpose of this paper is to summarize the evolution of global and national policies linking agriculture to nutrition in 2010–2020, and provides insights on the recent policy…

Deregulation, technical efficiency and production risk in rice farming: evidence from Zhejiang Province, China

Juanli Wang, Xiaoli Etienne, Yongxi Ma

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the technical efficiency and production risk in China's rice production and examine the effect of factor market reform on these two…

Impact of changing income distribution on fluid milk consumption in urban China

Wenbo Zhu, Yongfu Chen, Zhihao Zheng, Jing Zhao, Guojing Li, Wei Si

China has experienced a fast economic growth and shown a significant rise in income inequality in the past decades. During the same period, fluid milk consumption in urban areas…

The impact of income growth on quality structure improvement of imported food: evidence from China's firm-level data

Lin Sun, Li Tao Ye, Michael R. Reed

Against the background of the rapid increase of total imported food in China, China's imported high-quality food has increased more than low-quality ones, and China's imported…

Does outsourcing affect agricultural productivity of farmer households? Evidence from China

Xin Deng, Dingde Xu, Miao Zeng, Yanbin Qi

Previous studies focused on the influence of outsourcing (labor division) on productivity, especially in the industrial economy. However, few studies have focused on how labor…

A snapshot of food supply chain in Wuhan under the COVID-19 pandemic

Shi Min, Xiaoheng Zhang, Gucheng Li

The objective is to have a better understanding of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food supply chain in Wuhan.

The impact of access to irrigation on rural incomes and diversification: evidence from China

Junpeng Li, Wanglin Ma, Alan Renwick, Hongyun Zheng

The objective of this study is to estimate the impacts of access to irrigation on farm income, household income and income diversification.