2000s, identify the types of villages in which investment occurred and examine whether this investment had an impact on … effectively irrigated area, and ordinary least squares regression and fixed effects models are used for the analysis. Findings … – In spite of sustained investments into irrigation from 1998 to 2011, there has been almost no impact on agricultural land …

provide an assessment of the causes of efficiency variation. Design/methodology/approach – A stochastic frontier production …Purpose – The objective of this paper is to examine chemical fertilizer use efficiency at the household level and … function approach is employed to estimate fertilizer use efficiency at the household level. Findings – It is estimated that on …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to perform an investigative analysis of the distribution of agricultural growth … into farmland accumulation, capital deepening, labor-scale change, technical change, and efficiency change based on … performed using counterfactual analysis. Findings – The results of this analysis indicate that: from 1996, the distribution of …

/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 …

regression-type model for analysis, which fails to capture the effects of the exogenous factors on the entire distribution. To …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to apply a market efficiency theoretical framework to analyse and postulate …-wool marketing is used to illustrate issues associated with specialty product marketing. The market efficiency approach highlights … the difficulties involved in relaying accurate product prices and values (exchange efficiency) while aligning the …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a financial liberalization index (FLI) and evaluate its impact on … long run. Originality/value – While previous research focuses on overall economic growth, this paper evaluates the impact …

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of remittance income on rural households in China … consumption, but not as much as local wages and that there is no difference in the impact on agricultural production spending …, suggesting that the fear of losing land allocations has a strong impact on migration decision. Originality/value – The paper uses …

Chinese civilization is continuously developing, and it can be used as a reference for the development of Chinese agriculture … today. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs a historical analysis approach to examine the sustainable thoughts … concerning Chinese traditional agriculture, including view of sancai, farming season, fertility, the nature of matters, recycling …

Purpose – In light of the global concern about the impact of trade liberalization on environment, this paper intends to … measure, theoretically as well as empirically, the impact of freer rice trade on environmental quality in terms of chemical … environmental degradation due to freer trade in agriculture. It also implies that more investment on environmental protection is …