Farmers engaging in irrigated agriculture are subject to externalities stemming from their neighbours’ operational decisions on water use. Because of the nature of water flow, these externalities are more evident between neighbours in an upstream–downstream relationship rather than in...

Although the development of an Internet-based communication system could decrease the cost of accessing food risk information, a strong intention to access information through the Web would also be required to activate consumer behaviour. We examined how consumers' critical thinking attitudes...

Agricultural water trade has been adopted in many countries as a measure to overcome water deficiency facing irrigated regions. When correctly applied, the system can allocate more water to more productive farmers, thereby improving efficiency in resource utilisation. Despite this enormous...

In this paper, we discuss the problems about the statistical data of sectoral labor forces in China and recalculate the agricultural labor forces with a robust method. The core issue is to take the rural migrant workers into consideration and to exclude the size of rural migrant workers who come...