, Beijing, China, August 16-22, 2009 …

China has experienced outstanding economic growth in recent decades, but not without environmental problems and costs … China’s rate of growth is environmentally sustainable and doubt if China will attain middle-income status in the next … century because of the environmental constraints facing it. Some suggest that China has already reduced its natural …

Brings attention to recent environmental policy documents which have been released in China such as China’s Agenda 21 … which is a white paper outlining policies to achieve sustainable developing in China. Another important recent document is … China: Biodiversity Conservation Plan. It identifies tropical reserves in Xishuangbanna Prefecture as having a high priority …

many countries, including China, community-based forestry is a decentralized form of forestry which empowers local people …

This paper examines how farmers have adapted to the current range of climates across China. A cross sectional method is … used to analyze irrigation choice and crop choice across 8,405 farmers in 28 provinces in China. We find that both …

China has embarked on a major program to modernise agricultural and agribusiness structures with far reaching … in high-value agrifood chains, China should pursue a more incremental and facilitative approach based around developing …

This paper examined China’s agricultural imports in regard to income growth, import price changes, and tariff … reductions due to China’s trade liberalisation. More specifically, it attempted to model behavioural relationships in the … agricultural trade between China and the EU by using annual trade data from 1986 to 2005. Econometric models were constructed for …

aspect of dietary health, fat density of energy intake in China. The sample of 2612 individuals between the ages of 20 and 45 … is derived from the China Health and Nutrition Survey. The following insights emerge: (i) Fat density increases with …