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 …

China has experienced frequently food safety scares due to pesticide residue issues in recent years. This excessive of … production practices of small-scale farmers directly, encouraging the adoption of food safety and quality standards by China … agricultural cooperatives in China. Our qualitative analysis suggests that cooperative size, perception and attitude toward …

an arid region in northwest China. The results show that the water policy change results in a lower elasticity of land …

communities in China. We shall examine in detail the food industry, which is the link in the food chain that propels the …

China’s agricultural and trade policies have been shifting despite little change in policy objectives. This paper … investigates potential implications of recent agriculture policies applied in China, and quantitatively analyzes their impacts on … farmers and lowering domestic prices to consumers. China’s producers increase production slightly because of increased input …

This paper explores the current status of contract farming in China by examining data from a survey of Chinese …

Great changes have taken place in China’s agricultural and food markets in the past several decades. However, the … impact of the transformation brought by modern supply chains on the welfare of farmers in China is unclear. This paper … attempts to understand whether or not the recent changes in China’s food economy have contributed to an improvement in the …

China has a biosafety regulatory framework in place for both domestic GM crop commercialization and imports. China … of maize in the near future. Both China’s soybean and maize imports are dominated by GM varieties, with most soybean … imported from the US, Brazil and Argentina and maize imported mainly from the US. China’s import approval process takes on …