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Marketing China's milk: A case study of the sales activity of dairy farmers in greater Beijing
Huang, Jikun; Wu, Yunhua; Yang, Zhijian; Rozelle, Scott; … - In: China Economic Review 23 (2012) 3, pp. 675-689
Small farmer participation in marketing chains in emerging commodity markets and the determinants of their marketing channel choices are the center of many recent empirical and theoretical papers in the literature. The dairy sector is emerging in China. There are many fundamental questions about...
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Continuity and Change in China's Rural Periodic Markets
Rozelle, Scott; Benziger, Vincent W. R.; Huang, Jikun - 2003
Can we find traditional periodic markets in the milieu of market activity that abounds in contemporary China today? As reform is transforming the rural economy, is periodic markets activity being intensified or undermined? What factors acocunt for the evolution of China's rural markets? The goal...
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The Nature and Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in China and Implications of WTO Accession
Huang, Jikun; Rozelle, Scott - 2002
The overall goal of our paper is to understand how WTO will affect the agriculture sector in China. To accomplish this … provide a context for our analysis of the current distortions that affect China's agriculture. Second, after briefly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014108827
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Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Biotech Foods in China : A Contingent Valuation Approach
Lin, William W. - 2014
Based on a large-scale survey, this study employs the contingent valuation method to estimate consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) for biotech foods in China and to account for the effects of respondents' characteristics on the likelihood of purchasing biotech foods and WTP. The survey, covering...
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The potential benefits of agricultural adaptation to warning in China in the long run
Huang, Kaixing; Wang, Jinxia; Huang, Jikun - 2016
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The political economy of food pricing policy in China
Huang, Jikun; Yang, Jun; Rozelle, Scott - 2013
The overall goal of this paper is to analyse the political economy of food price policies in China during the global food crisis. The results show that given China's unique economic and political context and the nature of its agricultural markets, the government's reaction to the crisis was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319826
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014689670
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814698