Migration, remittances, and agricultural productivity in small farming...
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between migration, remittances and agricultural productivity by applying the new economics of labor migration model in the...
View ArticleIntroduction to the special issue on "China’s Agricultural Development in...
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View ArticleLand Tenure Security and Land Investments-a Case Study for Minle County,...
AbstractPurpose - To examine the effect of perceived land tenure security in China on farmers’ decisions to invest in relatively long-term land quality improvement measures, taking into account the...
View ArticleProject Design, Village Governance and Infrastructure Quality in Rural China
AbstractPurpose - This paper seeks to measure the quality of infrastructure investments in rural China as well as to document the differences among projects and among villages in order to try to...
View ArticleSelf-employment or Wage-employment? On the occupational choice of return...
AbstractPurpose - The purpose of this paper is to quantify the impact of return migration on the occupational choice in Rural ChinaDesign/methodology/approach - Our research use the two-stages...
View ArticleBeyond Lewis: Rural-to-Urban Migration with Endogenous Policy Change
AbstractPurpose - This paper tries to answer following questions concerning rural-to-urban labor migration in China: (1) What is the impact of discrimination against non-Hukou in urban public service...
View ArticleRe-examination of the Surplus Agricultural Labour in China
AbstractPurpose - This paper contributes to the pool of studies of rural underemployment in China. It is devoted to the conceptualization, identification and measurement of surplus labour....
View ArticleAgricultural Trade and Farm Employment in China during 1994-2009: Job...
AbstractPurpose - It has been expected that following the accession to the World Trade Organization, China would reconfigure its agricultural trade pattern more in line with its perceived comparative...
View ArticleForest land rights, tenure types, and farmers' investment incentives in...
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of land rights and tenure types on farmers' investment behavior in Chinese collective forests, using household survey data from Fujian...
View ArticleA typology of food security in developing countries
AbstractPurpose– The recent high food price and volatility, as well as economic recession, have reversed the last decade's progress in reducing hunger and poverty. This aim of this paper is to conduct...
View ArticleThe feasibility of replacing the sliding scale duty with cotton subsidies in...
AbstractPurpose– This paper aims to determine whether domestic cotton support permitted by the current or potential World Trade Organization (WTO) rules would be sufficient to compensate the cost to...
View ArticleIncome vs price subsidy: policy options to help the urban poor facing food...
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to analyze and compare the costs of price and income subsidies when the food security policy targets the urban poor. The result may help policymakers...
View ArticleAsset endowments, non-farm participation and local separability in remote...
AbstractPurpose– The aim of this paper is to address a local separability character partly identified by non-farm participation behaviors in the context of multiple market imperfections....
View ArticleThe effects of different types of trust on consumer perceptions of food...
AbstractPurpose– The aim of this research is to empirically investigate how different types of trust relate to consumer perceptions of food safety. Design/methodology/approach– After a review of trust...
View ArticleEfficiency measurements in multi-activity data envelopment analysis with...
AbstractPurpose– The paper aims to propose a modified multi-activity data envelopment analysis (MDEA) to provide information on the efficiency performance of farmers' cooperatives with inputs shared...
View ArticleMigration, remittances, and agricultural productivity in small farming...
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between migration, remittances and agricultural productivity by applying the new economics of labor migration model in the...
View ArticleLand tenure security and land investments in Northwest China
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of perceived land tenure security in China on farmers' decisions to invest in relatively long-term land quality improvement measures,...
View ArticleProject design, village governance and infrastructure quality in rural China
AbstractPurpose– This paper aims to explain why the quality of infrastructure projects in rural China differs from village to village and how project quality is correlated with project design...
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