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Biosafety management and pesticide use in China's Bt cotton production

Huang, Jikun; Chen, Ruijian; Qiao, Fangbin; Wu, Kongming - In: China Economic Review 33 (2015) C, pp. 67-75

As the rapid development of Genetically Modified crops, Chinese government has been increasing its efforts in GM crop biosafety management. However, the rapid expansion of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton varieties and less regulated seed industry also resulted in a large amount of Bt cotton...

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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...

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Are China's Farms Growing?

Ji, Xianqing; Rozelle, Scott; Huang, Jikun; Zhang, Linxiu; … - 2016

China's agricultural sector faces challenges because most farms are still small scale. China's policy is to encourage the consolidation of farms and promote farms that are larger in scale. A question that arises is: Are China's farms growing? The goal of the present paper is to determine whether...

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Impact assessment of global and national biofuels developments on agriculture in Pakistan

Ali, Tariq; Huang, Jikun; Yang, Jun - In: Applied Energy 104 (2013) C, pp. 466-474

agriculture markets and food prices in Pakistan. Our results show that by 2020, global mandates on biofuels will significantly …, and sugarcane in Pakistan. Pakistan will benefit from improved trade balance in agriculture under the global-only scenario …. Under Pakistan plus three-producer’s biofuels scenario, the price and production of sugarcane in Pakistan will increase …

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Household Access to Nongovernmental Microfinance, Formal Credit and Informal Credit in Rural China

Luan, Hao; Jia, Xiangping; Huang, Jikun - In: Review of Economics & Finance 4 (2014) May, pp. 61-76

There has been a rising concern that microfinance is abandoning its mission to serve the poor. Based on a longitudinal dataset, this paper examines rural households¡¯ credit access to all the sources in less developed areas in China, and analyzes its relationship with household wealth. It is...

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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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Potential Impact of Biotechnology on Adaption of Agriculture to Climate Change: The Case of Drought Tolerant Rice Breeding in Asia

Pray, Carl; Nagarajan, Latha; Li, Luping; Huang, Jikun; … - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 10, pp. 1723-1741

In Asia and Africa the poor tend to live in marginal environments where droughts and floods are frequent. Global warming is expected to increase the frequency of these weather-induced perturbations of crop production. Drought tolerance (DT) has been one of the most difficult traits to improve in...

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Improving Estimates of Inequality and Poverty From Urban China’s Household Income and Expenditure Survey

Gibson, John; Huang, Jikun; Rozelle, Scott - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2002

In urban China the Household Income and Expenditure Survey requires respondents to keep a daily expenditure diary for a full 12-month period. This onerous reporting task makes it difficult to recruit households into the survey, compromising the representative nature of the sample. In this...

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Mapping Poverty in Rural China: How Much Does the Environment Matter?

Olivia, Susan; Gibson, John; Rozelle, Scott; Huang, Jikun; … - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2008

estimates of consumption-based poverty and inequality in rural Shaanxi, China. We also investigate whether using environmental …

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Which Households Are Most Distant from Health Centers in Rural China? Evidence from a GIS Network Analysis

Gibson, John; Deng, Xiangzheng; Boe-Gibson, Geua; … - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2008

In this paper we have two objectives - one empirical; one methodological. Although China’s leaders are beginning to pay attention to health care in rural China, there are still concerns about access to health services. To examine this issue, we use measures of travel distances to health...

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