Urban bias has long been China's dominant economic policy. The persistent urban bias leads to a severe rural … detrimental to agricultural growth. This paper uses China's provincial panel data from 1978 to 2007 to investigate the diverting …

Since the 1950s, agricultural growth in East Asia (China, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan) has reduced …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the main features of world cotton market by focusing on the role of China, and … market is given; after that, the main reasons for considering China as the leading country in this sector are illustrated. To …

diets, China has had to resort to imports, becoming a net importer of food. In absence of external flows, this scenario is …

this paper is to highlight the behavior and the role of China (a net food importer country) and India (which is facing a …

horticulture shareholding co-operatives in rural China, because shareholding co-operatives, as one best example of new multi …-stakeholder co-operatives in China, have become a vehicle to mobilize additional resources. To better understand shareholder co … the rules-in-form and rules-in-use with respect to the co-operative stakeholders' capital involvement in China. Cases …

Given the shrinking proportion of agriculture output and the growing mobility of the labor force in China, how … aims to depict the development trajectory of agricultural labor productivity in China after its WTO entry. Based on a …

In 2004, China entered a new era in its approach to agricultural policy, as it began to subsidize rather than tax … agriculture. China introduced direct subsidies to farmers, began to phase out its centuries-old agricultural tax, subsidized seed … and machinery purchases, and increased spending on rural infrastructure. The new policies reflect China's new view of …

the EU and China. To this purpose, the paper outlines the international framework on pesticides and the legal framework in … the EU and China, analyzes pesticide markets, and considers the concerns related to their use. The overview of the … situation in the EU and China allows us to identify challenges and opportunities for future developments in terms of food …