The paper investigates the impact of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidies on farm total factor productivity … effect of subsidies into a model of unobserved productivity. We empirically study the effects using the Farm Accountancy Data … Network (FADN) samples for the EU-15 countries. Our main findings are clear: subsidies impact negatively farm productivity in …

China has embarked on a major program to modernise agricultural and agribusiness structures with far reaching … in high-value agrifood chains, China should pursue a more incremental and facilitative approach based around developing …

China but also to the stability of the world economy. The transformation of the Chinese wool textile industry illustrates …

A major determinant of rural development in China is the way by which rural households integrate with rural industries …. Findings for the ruminant livestock sector are widely applicable to other agricultural industries in China. …