Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the evolution of the food traceability system in China, examine factors that affect consumers' perception of a food traceability system, and determine their willingness to pay for having the system. Design/methodology/approach – Beijing, one...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to find factors that explain why some enterprises hedge but others do not. The authors' analysis relies on Heckman model (a probit and Tobit model) with the data obtained from questionnaires collected from Chinese enterprises. Given the fact that only a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify factors that affect farm acceptance of the new seeds. This paper develops a Bivariate Probit model with adjusted sample selection bias to analyze Chinese farmers' sequential decision-making process in their adoption of plant new varieties (new...

Agricultural producer cooperatives are of great significance to the development of agricultural productivity and can provide improved economic welfare benefits to farmers. However, such organizations have not been well-developed in China. While China's new Cooperatives Law of 2007 has generated...

Migrant workers have become a major element of the labor force in Chinese cities, making important contributions to the economy while forming a socially disadvantaged group. Existing research on the relationship between the level of nutrition and health and income in China mainly focuses on...

China has recently implemented a series of agricultural policy reforms to expand its agricultural sector and increase farm income. Subsidies supporting agricultural sector growth are the favored policy even though they are known to exert a distorting effect on markets. Using a Policy Analysis...

<Para ID="Par1">Using 360 questionnaire data collected in Beijing, China, this study examines consumers’ acceptance and willingness to pay (WTP) for pistachios produced in China, California and Turkey. The impact of country of origin (COO), price, flavor, package size and package type was analyzed. A...</para>

As in most developing countries, agricultural wholesale markets in China operate under imperfect market conditions. Traders are separated and volatile, information services are unavailable or poor, and formal credit or insurance is unavailable to traders. To deal with these circumstances, some...

Little attention in the literature on stakeholder shared decision making in program evaluations has been given to involving stakeholders in developing the process of decision making. If stakeholders are not fully involved in developing this process, decisions may be biased and lead to invalid...

To solve the water flooding problem of micro passive direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC), plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO) was adopted to prepare a superhydrophilic coating on the surface of an aluminum-based cathode current collector which contacts with air. Results data show that liquid water...