JIA, Xiangping; HUANG, Jikun; XU, Zhigang - In: China Economic Review 23 (2012) 3, pp. 665-674
The upstream agrofood market in China is dominated by a vast number of small farmers and traders, which challenges food safety compliance. To promote small farmers' access to the commercialized agrofood market, membership in farmer professional economic cooperatives (FPCs) is considered to be an...