The impact of wheat diversity on the productivity of wheat in China is examined using total factor productivity (TFP …) and an instrumental variable approach. TFP in seven key wheat-producing provinces in China shows significant, though …

China has made a major investment in biotechnology research. Genetically modified (GM) cotton is widely adopted and the … list of GM technologies in trials is impressive. At the same time there is an active debate on when China should … various scenarios. Based on a unique data from empirical micro-level study and field trial in China and a modified GTAP model …

The overall goal of this paper is to analyse the political economy of food price policies in China during the global …

dataset, this paper examines rural households¡¯ credit access to all the sources in less developed areas in China, and … services in poor areas and have targeted more on the wealthy. In the presence of a large unmet demand for credit in rural China …

This paper examines China and Africa co-operation from the angle of structural transformation as a major driver of … growth and job creation. Being a bit ahead in the structural transformation process, China can provide ideas, tacit knowledge …

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 …

Concerned about national grain self-sufficiency and rural household incomes, in 2004 China announced that it was … of policy and the likely implication of this subsidy policy to China’s grain economy, there has been no household …-level survey-based research that has sought to understand the effect of China’s subsidy programme on household behaviour. Using …

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 …

shortage are two major challenges for China. Rice is a staple food for most Chinese people and has played an important role in … ensuring food security in China. This paper assesses the impacts of Hanyou 3, one of the drought-tolerant rice varieties that … have been released to farmers’ fields already in China, on water use and rice production. The results indicated that the …