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Promotion of dairy farming and poverty reduction in Inner Mongolia, China

Dagula; Kiminami, Lily - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 1, pp. 82-96

Purpose – The purposes of this paper are to examine the actual conditions of the problems of poverty in rural areas in Inner Mongolia, to clarify the problems involved in the measure to fight poverty through promotion of dairy farming and to propose policies for future measures to fight...

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Hog insurance adoption and suppliers' discrimination: A bivariate probit model with partial observability

Cao, Ying; Zhang, Yuehua - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 4 (2012) 2, pp. 233-255

implications – Results from bi-vairate probit model offer deeper understandings about livestock insurance choices and provide … questionnaire and firstly used bi-vairate probit model to offer more understandings about demand and supply sides of livestock …

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Promotion of dairy farming and poverty reduction in Inner Mongolia, China

Kiminami, Lily - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2008) 1, pp. 82-96

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Forage‐livestock policies designed to improve livelihoods in Western China: a critical review

Brown, Colin; Waldron, Scott; Yuman, Liu; Longworth, John - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 4, pp. 367-381

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how the promotion of integrated forage/ruminant‐livestock industries … policy relates to other measures intended to improve household livelihoods. Findings – The outcomes of this forage‐livestock … households and markets. Originality/value – Identifying the impacts of policy and institutional settings associated with forage‐livestock …

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Hog insurance adoption and suppliers' discrimination

Cao, Ying; Zhang, Yuehua - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 4 (2012) 2, pp. 233-255

implications – Results from bi‐vairate probit model offer deeper understandings about livestock insurance choices and provide … questionnaire and firstly used bi‐vairate probit model to offer more understandings about demand and supply sides of livestock …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014689657

What do China’s rising meat demand and industrialization of the livestock sector mean for its vegetable oil market?

Xiong, Bo; Yi, Fujin; Li, Yaling - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 9 (2017) 2, pp. 303-316

industrialization of the livestock sector for the vegetable oil market. Design/methodology/approach An equilibrium displacement model is … constructed to analyze the interactions between meat consumption and vegetable oil market through the development of livestock …-soybean vegetable oils may shrink as long as the rapid industrialization pace above 10 percent within China’s livestock sector continues …

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Forage-livestock policies designed to improve livelihoods in Western China: a critical review

Brown, Colin; Waldron, Scott; Yuman, Liu; Longworth, John - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 4, pp. 367-381

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how the promotion of integrated forage/ruminant-livestock industries … policy relates to other measures intended to improve household livelihoods. Findings – The outcomes of this forage-livestock … households and markets. Originality/value – Identifying the impacts of policy and institutional settings associated with forage-livestock …

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A multi-regional representation of China's agricultural sectors

Horridge, Glyn Wittwer Mark - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 4, pp. 420-434

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline a version of SinoTERM, a multi-regional computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of China that has been updated and disaggregated further to enhance the agricultural detail. A version of the model is publicly available and will be useful to...

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The effect of off-farm employment on the decisions of households to rent out and rent in cultivated land in China

Huang, Jikun; Gao, Liangliang; Rozelle, Scott - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 4 (2012) 1, pp. 5-17

Purpose – Developing nations need good cultivated land rental markets to foster rational resource use and to enhance productivity and equity. Can cultivated land rental markets emerge in the face of rapidly developing off-farm labor markets? The purpose of this paper is to measure the...

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Pesticide use and farmers' health in China's rice production

Qiao, Fangbin; Huang, Jikun; Zhang, Linxiu; Rozelle, Scott - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 4 (2012) 4, pp. 468-484

Purpose – The purpose of this study is trying to document and examine the impacts of pesticide use on farmers' health. Different from previous studies, the paper is not only going to focus on the visible effect, but also the invisible effect. At the same time, the paper is going to divided the...

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