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The Great Exodus: How agricultural surplus laborers have been transferred and reallocated in China’s reform period?
Fang CaiThe purpose of this paper is to review the process of rural labor reallocation and unfolds its growth effect through sufficiently supplying human resources, preventing diminishing…
40-year reform of farmland institution in China: target, effort and the future
Biliang LuoBased on the brief historical review, the purpose of this paper is to expound the target and bottom line for the farmland institutional reform of in China, analyze the “Chinese…
From taxing to subsidizing farmers in China post-1978
Kym AndersonThe purpose of this paper is to document the pace and extent to which China’s policy regime has transitioned over the past four decades from explicitly and implicitly taxing to…
Agricultural organizations and the role of farmer cooperatives in China since 1978: past and future
Zuhui Huang, Qiao LiangDuring the past four decades, agriculture and rural development in China has scored a great progress. Organization institution in agriculture is one of the domains with drastic…
Engel curve, farmer welfare and food consumption in 40 years of rural China
Xiaohua YuThe purpose of this paper is to review the theoretical background, methodological extensions, and empirical applications of the Engel curve, which is applied to the research of…
Agri-environment policy for grain production in China: toward sustainable intensification
Xiao-qiang Jiao, Gang He, Zhen-ling Cui, Jian-bo Shen, Fu-suo ZhangThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the historical pattern of environmental cost due to grain production in China and to provide further implications of technologies and…
Rural education across China’s 40 years of reform: past successes and future challenges
Ai Yue, Bin Tang, Yaojiang Shi, Jingjing Tang, Guanminjia Shang, Alexis Medina, Scott RozelleThe purpose of this paper is to describe the policy and trends in rural education in China over the past 40 years; and also discuss a number of challenges that are faced by…
How peer monitoring and punishment affect the performance of the group contract: An experimental study on the control of non-point source pollution
Dan Wu, Yefeng Chen, Weiwen Zhang, Xiaoshi XingThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of three types of peer monitoring and punishment tools on the performance of a group contract for the control of…
Estimation of market equilibrium values for apple attributes
Jong Woo Choi, Chengyan Yue, James Luby, Shuoli Zhao, Karina Gallardo, Vicki McCracken, Jim McFersonDevelopment of new cultivars requires extensive genetic knowledge, trained personnel, and significant financial resources, so it is crucial for breeders to focus on the attributes…
Review and bibliometric analysis of Chinese agricultural economics research: 2006-2015
Qiuhong Chen, Ning Geng, Kan ZhuThe purpose of this paper is to reveal the distributional characteristics and evolutional patterns in source periodicals, topics, authors, funding, and institutes of research…
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1756-137XOnline date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr Fu Qin
- Dr Jikun Huang
- Dr Kevin Z Chen
- Dr Weiming Tian
- Prof Daniel Sumner
- Prof Xian Xin
- Prof Holly Wang