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Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture: Evidence from China

Chen, Shuai; Chen, Xiaoguang; Xu, Jintao - 2014

We estimate the link between corn and soybean yields and weather in China, while controlling for other variables that … asymmetric relationships between corn and soybean yields and weather variables; (ii) expansion of corn and soybean production to … change led to a net economic loss of about $200 million to China’s corn and soybean sectors in the past decade; (iv) corn and …

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Aligning Public Expenditure for Agricultural Development Priorities Under Rapid Transformation : The Case of China

Yu, Bingxin; Chen, Kevin Z.; Zhang, Haisen - 2015

Public expenditure in agriculture is one of the most important policy instruments for government in developing countries to address food security and poverty reduction. This paper provides a comprehensive review of agricultural policy and public agricultural expenditure (PAE) in China. China...

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The Declining Share of Agricultural Employment in the People's Republic of China: How Fast?

Felipe, Jesus; Dacuycuy, Connie; Lanzafame, Matteo - 2014

From 1962 to 2013, the People's Republic of China's (PRC's)agricultural employment share declined from 82% to 31%. The transfer of workers out of low-productivity agriculture is a fundamental pillar of the PRC's aspirations to progress and eventually become a high-income economy. We hypothesize...

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Meat Consumption, dietary strucuture and nutrition transition in China

Luo, Hengrong; Yu, Xiaohua - 2020

-urban gap in the diet. …

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A strategic risk management program for agriculture

Hoag, Dana L.K. - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 4, pp. 505-517

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how an organized framework for risk management called Risk Navigator SRM© can be practically applied to common risk management problems. Design/methodology/approach – The program makes complex risk principles easier to understand and...

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The Demand for Nutrients in China

Tian, Xu; Yu, Xiaohua - In: Frontiers of Economics in China 8 (2013) 2, pp. 186-206

China is experiencing a nutritional transition accompanied by its rapid economic growth. However, the relationship between income growth and nutritional improvement is still unclear. In contrast with the biased indirect method, this paper employs a direct method to estimate the income...

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The Economic Impact of Weather Variability on China’s Rice Sector

Chen, Shuai; Chen, Xiaoguang; Xu, Jintao - 2014

This paper provides the first county-level analysis of the impacts of weather variability on rice yield in China, by compiling a unique panel on irrigated single-season rice and daily weather data. We found that temperature and solar radiation had statistically significant impacts on rice yield...

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Testing for adverse selection of crop insurance in northern China

Hou, Linging; Hoag, Dana L.K.; Mu, Yueying - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 4, pp. 462-475

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the efficiency of current subsidized crop insurance products (SCIPs) in Miyun county, in northern China, by testing the existence of adverse selection. Design/methodology/approach – The authors examine the efficiency of SCIPs from a farmers'...

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Demographic crises during the Maoist period: A case study of the Great Flood of 1975 and the forgotten famine

Alvarez-Klee, Roser; Ramon Muñoz, Ramon - 2024

Demographic crises and famines were recurring phenomena in China before the mid-20th century, with the Great Leap Forward Famine of 1959-61 often regarded as the last and one of the most severe in Chinese History. This article delves into the repercussions of the Great Flood of 1975 in Henan...

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Thought and practice of sustainable development in Chinese traditional agriculture

Genpan, Li - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 1, pp. 97-109

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the sustainable development thought is one good reason why Chinese civilization is continuously developing, and it can be used as a reference for the development of Chinese agriculture today. Design/methodology/approach – The paper...

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