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Technology, factor endowments, and China's agricultural foreign trade: a neoclassical approach
Li, Xilin - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 4 (2012) 1, pp. 105-123
, respectively. The findings also imply that the utilization of comparative advantage in China's agriculture needs to be exploited …
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A conceptual framework for supply chain governance: An application to agri-food chains in China
Zhang, Xiaoyong; Aramyan, Lusine H. - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 2, pp. 136-154
Purpose – Chinese agri-food chains consist of the millions of small scale farmers, who are not well structured and organized in the supply chain. Owing to market liberalization and globalization, one of the most challenging issues along agri-food chains in China is becoming the issue of how to...
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Agriculture and economic growth in Tunisia
Chebbi, Houssem Eddine - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 1, pp. 63-78
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the role of agriculture in economic growth and its interactions with … paid to investigate non-causality between agriculture and other economic sectors. Findings – Empirical results suggest that … analysis of intersector growth. However, in the short run, agriculture in Tunisia seems to have a partial role as a driving …
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Thought and practice of sustainable development in Chinese traditional agriculture
Genpan, Li - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 1, pp. 97-109
Chinese civilization is continuously developing, and it can be used as a reference for the development of Chinese agriculture … concerning Chinese traditional agriculture, including view of sancai, farming season, fertility, the nature of matters, recycling …, and economization. Findings – The results reveal that the nature of Chinese traditional agriculture is akin to ecological …
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Rigid growth characteristic of demand for oil in China's agro-production
Wang, Lihong; Tian, Zhihong - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 3, pp. 327-341
Purpose – The demand for oil in agricultural production increases continuously with the world oil price soaring, reflecting a rigid growth characteristic, but there are no clear reasons for this. The purpose of this paper is to assess the essential reasons of this issue in theoretical and...
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Chemical fertilizer use efficiency and its determinants in China's farming sector: Implications for environmental protection
Wu, Yanrui - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 2, pp. 117-130
Purpose – The objective of this paper is to examine chemical fertilizer use efficiency at the household level and provide an assessment of the causes of efficiency variation. Design/methodology/approach – A stochastic frontier production function approach is employed to estimate fertilizer...
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Agricultural growth dynamics and decision mechanism in Chinese provinces: 1988-2008
Yu, Kang; Xin, Xiangfei; Nuetah, J. Alexander; Guo, Ping - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 2, pp. 150-170
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to perform an investigative analysis of the distribution of agricultural growth in China and the evolution of the decision mechanism. Design/methodology/approach – The kernel density estimation method was used to investigate the distribution of...
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Agriculture and the Wealth of Nations: 2010 CAER-IFPRI annual conference summary
Guo, Pei; Liu, Xiangqi; Ma, Ling - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 2, pp. 266-271
/methodology/approach – The conference theme was “Agriculture and the Wealth of Nations”, aiming to explore the importance of agriculture as well … as the relationship and interaction between agriculture and the whole economy. The attendees from 14 countries discussed …
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Examining changes in fresh fruit and vegetable consumption over time and across regions in urban China
Liu, Kang Ernest; Chang, Hung-Hao; Chern, Wen S. - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 3, pp. 276-296
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to fill a knowledge gap by examining the changes in fruit and vegetable consumption of Chinese households. Design/methodology/approach – Using 1993 and 2001 household survey data from three selected provinces in China, the authors estimated a quantile...
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Specialty products, rural livelihoods and agricultural marketing reforms in China
Brown, Colin; Waldron, Scott; Longworth, John - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 2, pp. 224-244
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to apply a market efficiency theoretical framework to analyse and postulate solutions to the challenges confronting China in engaging smallholders in higher value, specialty, agricultural product markets. A marketing experiment/trial to test these ideas...
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