China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 14 Issue 3

The decline in agricultural share and agricultural industrialization—some stylized facts and theoretical explanations

Shouying Liu, Baojin Wang

The decline in the share of agriculture in both output and employment is a central feature of structural transformation. The authors present the distinct features between…

How agricultural economists are using big data: a review

Liang Lu, Guang Tian, Patrick Hatzenbuehler

The purpose of this paper is to describe the main ways in which large amounts of information have been integrated to provide new measures of food consumption and agricultural…

The impact of land certification on cropland abandonment: evidence from rural China

Linyi Zheng, Wenrong Qian

This study explores how the land tenure system helps in protecting land quantity during agricultural production by estimating the influence of land certification on cropland…

Exploring the relationship between plot size and fertilizer use efficiency: evidence from large-scale farming in China

Fang Li, Shuyi Feng, Hualiang Lu, Futian Qu, Marijke D'Haese

This paper investigates the relationship between plot size and fertilizer use efficiency (FE) in Chinese large-scale farming and searches for the underlying mechanisms that…

Effect of industrial structure on urban–rural income inequality in China

Diandian Chen, Yong Ma

Since 1978, China has made tremendous economic achievements through industrial upgrading. However, these achievements are accompanied by an expanding income gap between rural and…

Off-farm employment experience triggers heterogeneity of exiting part-time farming in rural China

Yunli Bai, Weidong Wang, Linxiu Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to examine the occupational specialization in rural labor market by analyzing the nature of part-time farming in rural China and estimating the impact…

Pre- and post-production water treatment in the food processing industry: managerial perceptions of environmental pressure increase adoption of voluntary environmental management

Ting Meng, Qijun Jiang, Wojciech J. Florkowski

This paper examines pre- and post-production water treatment practices among food processors and investigates factors, especially managerial perceptions of environmental pressure…

Internet access and irrigation adoption in China

Yushan Hu, Yahua Wang, Penglong Zhang

This study aims to examine the effect of the Internet on irrigation system adoption. The authors implement the most extensive household survey of irrigation arrangements ever…

Does education affect consumers' attitudes toward genetically modified foods? Evidence from China's two rounds of education reforms

Yexin Zhou, Siwei Chen, Tianyu Wang, Qi Cui

This study analyzes the causal effect of education on consumers' cognition and attitudes toward genetically modified (GM) foods.

Classification-based forest management program and farmers' income: evidence from collective forest area in southern China

Chang Xu, Baodong Cheng, Mengzhen Zhang

This article's purpose is to examine the effect of a Classification-Based Forest Management (CFM) program on farmers' income and determine whether its effect varies with the…