China’s melamine milk adulteration crisis highlights the challenges that arise as large well-capitalized companies …

The western part of China has a long history and reputation of growing a variety of quality melons largely due to its … to be explored. This paper analysed the melon supply chain in western China in the areas of logistical efficiency and …

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 …

The supermarket revolution has arrived in China and is spreading as fast as or faster than anywhere in the world. As … communities in the Greater Beijing area, we find small and poor farmers have actively participate in the emergence of China … the paper we document seven characteristics of China's food economy that we believe account for this unique set of …

The rapidly growing beef cattle herd of the Peoples Republic of China is largely carried as small numbers of animals on … south-central China. An economic model and a synthetic case example of a smallholder farm enterprise are used to briefly …

This paper investigates the role of infrastructure capital in China’s regional economic development during 1990 to 2009 … land-line telephone. The results support a positive role of infrastructure in improving economic wellbeing in China. It … shows that infrastructure has contributed to the convergence among China’s provinces. However, declining growth momentum …

administrative land reallocations and the development of land rental markets in China. We find that the two alternative mechanisms of …

interaction by providing a quantitative assessment on how increased spending on agricultural domestic support in China offset the …