Climate change, risk and productivity : analyses of Chinese agriculture

This thesis analyzes challenges to agricultural production in China, which could impair the country's ability to maintain or to increase its output of important food commodities. By means of three empirical studies, issues regarding the effects of climate change and the development of total factor productivity are studied, which have so far received insufficient attention. In the first study, the effects of climate change on Chinese inland aquaculture production are analyzed. For this purpose, the method proposed by Just and Pope (1978, 1979) is adapted and applied to determine the marginal...