China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 9 Issue 2

Food security and nutrition in an urbanizing world: A synthesis of the 2017 Global Food Policy Report

Shenggen Fan, Emily EunYoung Cho, Christopher Rue

The paper is a synthesis of the 2017 Global Food Policy Report, and the purpose of this paper is to put into perspective the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions…

Traders’ market power along Indonesian rubber value chains

Thomas Kopp, Bernhard Brümmer

While traders of agricultural products are known to often exercise market power, this power has rarely been quantified for developing countries. The paper aims to discuss this…

Rubber specialization vs crop diversification: the roles of perceived risks

Shi Min, Jikun Huang, Hermann Waibel

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of farmers’ risk perceptions regarding rubber farming on their land use choices, including rubber specialization and crop…

Organic farming: Does acquisition of the farming information influence Chinese apple farmers’ willingness to adopt?

Wanglin Ma, Chunbo Ma, Ye Su, Zihan Nie

The purpose of this paper is to explore the factors that influence Chinese apple farmers’ willingness to adopt organic farming, paying a special attention to the role of…

A bootstrap approach for pricing crop yield insurance

Yugu Xiao, Ke Wang, Lysa Porth

While crop insurance ratemaking has been studied for many decades, it is still faced with many challenges. Crop insurance premium rates (PRs) are traditionally determined only by…

How the new media impacts rural development in China: an empirical study

Dong Zhou, Benqian Li

The purpose of this paper is to study a new pathway out of poverty for rural areas through cultivating non-farm employment: the new media utilization.

The impact of investment on drinking water quality in rural China

Ai Yue, Yaojiang Shi, Renfu Luo, Linxiu Zhang, Natalie Johnson, Scott Rozelle, Qiran Zhao

Although access to safe drinking water is one of the most important health-related infrastructure programs in the world, drinking water remains a large problem in China today…

Endogenous schooling, school proximity and returns to rural schooling in Northwestern China

Qihui Chen, Jingqin Xu, Jiaqi Zhao, Bo Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the returns to rural schooling in China, addressing both endogeneity in rural individuals’ schooling and self-selection into off-farm work.

Empirical analysis of the main factors influencing rice harvest losses based on sampling survey data of ten provinces in China

Linhai Wu, Qipeng Hu, Jianhua Wang, Dian Zhu

In China, a major grain producer, rice losses during harvest cannot be ignored. The purpose of this paper is to assess the extent of rice harvest losses in major grain-producing…

What do China’s rising meat demand and industrialization of the livestock sector mean for its vegetable oil market?

Bo Xiong, Fujin Yi, Yaling Li

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the implications of the China’s rising meat demand and industrialization of the livestock sector for the vegetable oil market.

Innovations in genetically modified agricultural technologies in China’s public sector: Successes and challenges

Jinyang Cai, Ruifa Hu, Jikun Huang, Xiaobing Wang

The purpose of this paper is to assess whether China’s public sector can continue to generate advanced genetically modified (GM) technologies that will be competitive in the…