In the past thirty years, China has made great strides in terms of boosting food production while simultaneously reducing the number of its rural poor. This success was largely accomplished through agricultural policy and trade reform, food market liberalization, and public investment in...

The share of wheat in China's overall grain production and consumption has increased since economic reform. China is also a large wheat importer, but imports are erratic. In the literature, there is disagreement over future prospects for per capita wheat consumption in China and imports. Most of...

type="main" xml:lang="fr" <p>Dieser Beitrag erörtert die wesentlichen Auswirkungen des WTO Beitritts Chinas auf die Landwirtschaft und die damit verbundenen Herausforderungen. Wir beleuchten vier Punkte: Agrarproduktion und –handel, Ernährungssicherung und Selbstversorgung, Einkommen der...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="de" <p>Der Preisanstieg für Agrarerzeugnisse von 2007/2008 hielt sich nur kurz, genau wie andere Spitzenpreise für Agrarerzeugnisse in der Vergangenheit auch. Zwischen 2006 und 2008 hatten sich die Getreidepreise verdoppelt oder sogar verdreifacht, während die damit...</p>

China is the world's largest producer and consumer of food. In the past, China's governmental policy advocated regional self-sufficiency in agricultural production, and it is generally believed that regional self-sufficiency was enforced at high economic cost. However, this changed with the 1979...

This article discusses the main agricultural impacts of China's WTO accession and the associated challenges. We elaborate on four issues - agricultural production and trade, food security and self-sufficiency, farmers' incomes, and rural land reform. After more than seven years of WTO accession,...

The 2007-2008 agricultural commodity price boom was short-lived, just like past agricultural commodity price spikes. Grain prices doubled or even tripled from 2006 to 2008, while accompanying food prices rose sharply. But prices then fell steeply in the latter part of 2008. Some international...