This paper explores the interrelationships between Chinese grain prices, farm households' income, their own-consumption of grain and their marketable surplus supply during the rural reform era. A Gorman polar indirect utility function is employed, from which a set of household grain supply and...

This article explores rural household food consumption behaviour in China using a large household data set from Jilin Province. Data are classified into four main food groups—grain, vegetable products, animal products and other foods. A household food demand system, incorporating four...

A regional input-output model, detailing agriculture and its ancillary sectors, is used to quantify the effects of a BSE-induced reduction in final demand for beef on the economy of Northern Ireland, a region with heavy dependence on beef exports. The long-run regional output, income and...