Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships of technical training and the peer effects of technical training with farmers' pesticide use behaviors. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses survey data from 300 peanut growers in Zoucheng County, Shandong, China, in...

Purpose: In this study, the authors examined demand-side credit in rural China with the aims of understanding attribute preferences and the willingness of farmers to pay for credit. Design/methodology/approach: The authors implemented an in-the-field discrete choice experiment (DCE) using a...

Purpose: Finance is crucial to boosting agricultural development in developing countries. This paper aims to investigate the effects of rural formal and informal financial access on agricultural technical efficiency (TE) in China. Design/methodology/approach: Based on the survey data of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the linkages between climate change, income dynamics and nutrition intake in rural China. Design/methodology/approach – Using a system of simultaneous equations in a three-stage least squares model instrumented with carbohydrates, fats,...