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Financing sustainable agriculture under climate change with a specific focus on foreign aid

Huang, Jikun - 2013

used to achieve the joint objectives of development, mitigation of and adaptation to climate change in agriculture in the … developing world. The results show that agriculture is underinvested and foreign aid has not increased sufficiently to assist … developing countries achieve sustainable agriculture; substantial funds are needed to finance the wide range of measures for …

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Sequencing and the Success of Gradualism: Empirical Evidence from China's Agricultural Reform

de Brauw, Alan; Huang, Jikun; Rozelle, Scott - Economics Department, Williams College - 2002

This paper provides evidence regarding gains to agricultural market liberalization in China. We empirically identify the different effects that incentive reforms and gradual market liberalization have on China's agricultural economy during its transition period. We find that average gains within...

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Agriculture, Food Security,and Poverty in China; Past Performance, Future Prospects, and Implications for Agricultural R&D Policy

Huang, Jikun; Rozelle, Scott - eSocialSciences - 2009

Chinaâ€™s experience demonstrates the importance of technological development and public investment in improving agricultural productivity, farmer income, and food security in a nation with limited supplies of land and other natural resources. Technology has been the engine of...

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Environmental stress and grain yields in China

Huang, Jikun - In: American journal of agricultural economics 77 (1995) 4, pp. 853-864

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Subsidies and distortions in China’s agriculture: evidence from producer-level data

Huang, Jikun; Wang, Xiaobing; Zhi, Huayong; Huang, Zhurong - In: Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 55 (2011) 1

Concerned about national grain self-sufficiency and rural household incomes, in 2004 China announced that it was planning to reverse its longstanding policy of taxing farm households and instead began to provide them with subsidies. Over the past five years, annual announcements have trumpeted...

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Wage Growth, Landholding, and Mechanization in Chinese Agriculture

Wang, Xiaobing - 2014

demand for machine services. Recently, China's agriculture has experienced a large expansion of machine rentals and machine … agriculture with mechanization and active land rental markets …

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Wage growth, landholding, and mechanization in Chinese agriculture

Wang, Xiaobing; Yamauchi, Futoshi; Ōtsuka, Keijirō; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 86 (2016), pp. 30-45

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The sustainability of the farm-level impact of Bt cotton in China

Qiao, Fangbin; Huang, Jikun; Zhang, Caiping - In: Journal of agricultural economics 67 (2016) 3, pp. 602-618

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Rising wages, mechanization, and the substitution between capital and labor : evidence from small scale farm system in China

Wang, Xiaobing; Yamauchi, Futoshi; Huang, Jikun - In: Agricultural economics : the journal of the … 47 (2016) 3, pp. 309-317

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How China's Farmers Adapt To Climate Change

Wang, Jinxia - 2008

This paper uses a cross sectional method to analyze irrigation choice and crop choice across 8,405 farmers in 28 provinces in China. The findings show that Chinese farmers are more likely to irrigate when facing lower temperatures and less precipitation. Farmers in warmer places are more likely...

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