. A clearer picture of Chinese activities in agriculture is important as a foundation for Africans and their development … partners to more fruitfully engage with an increasingly important actor. Chinese engagement in agriculture and rural …

Agriculture in China has experienced a compelling growth in the early 1980s, a buoyant upbeat in the early 1990s, and … addressed. The Chinese government is now reemphasizing agriculture and rural develop-ment under its New Rural Campaign with the …

working of irrigation institutions, the present study reveals that successful management of irrigation is contingent upon the … level of participation of the water users in the management. By comparing irrigation institutions under different property … institutions. It is found that albeit the physical characteristics of irrigation systems and the heterogeneities of the members of …

transition experiments have highlighted the fact that functioning institutions are fundamental to the goal of achieving economic … growth. The growth literature has seen an abundance of empirical studies on the influence of institutions and the mechanisms … by which institutions affect development. This CESifo volume provides a systematic overview of the current scholarship on …

commitment to follow through with project recommendations. Against this backdrop, we consider the role of various institutions in … agriculture, and specifically in Ghana’s tomato sector. …

natural resources in agriculture. First, it incorporates an interdisciplinary approach (combining Economics, Organization, Law … management and strategies in agriculture including: specification of specific “managerial needs” and spectrum of feasible … agriculture during post-communist transformation and EU integration (institutional, market, private, and public), and evaluates …

Technical efficiency in agriculture of 10 new EU member states is analysed by Data Envelopment Analysis and econometric … panel data analysis. Technical efficiency in agriculture is significantly positively associated with agricultural factor …- rural income gap are associated with technical efficiency in agriculture positively. An increase in technical efficiency in …