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Product and process innovation in the food processing industry: case study in Guangxi province
Ma, Xin; McSweeney, Peter - In: Australasian Agribusiness Review 16 (2008)
China's food processing sector has arrived at a critical stage and the challenges for the food industry including undergoing relevant structural adjustments are well documented (OECD 2000). The Chinese domestic economy continues to boom and living standards of people continue to improve. Food...
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The Rise of New Farmer Cooperatives in China: Evidence from Hubei Province
Bijman, Jos; Hu, Dinghuan - In: Journal of Rural Cooperation 39 (2011) 2
Since the late 1990s, the number of farmer cooperatives in China has rapidly grown. The adoption of the national law on … farmer professional cooperatives in 2007 has led to significant governmental support for the establishment and management of … farmer professional cooperatives. This paper explores the organizational features of the newly established cooperatives as …
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Differences of county economic development in Hebei Province based on realistic competitiveness
Han, Suqing - 2009
Rural Development
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Forecast of rural gross social output value in Jiangsu Province based on optimized grey model
Men, Ke-pei; Zhang, Na - In: Asian Agricultural Research 1 (2009) 01
We establish the optimized grey model with logarithm new development coefficient by screening according to the latest statistical data during 2007 in Jiangsu Province. Empirical analysis and prediction research on rural gross social output value in Jiangsu Province from the year 2008 to 2012 are...
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Differences of county economic development in Hebei Province based on realistic competitiveness
Han, Su-qing - In: Asian Agricultural Research 1 (2009) 01
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Agricultural Clusters in China
Kiminami, Lily; Kiminami, Akira - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
The purpose of this study is to assess the potential of clustering in the development of agriculture and rural communities in China. We shall examine in detail the food industry, which is the link in the food chain that propels the industrialization of agriculture, and identify instances of...
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Research on Trust Mechanism in Rural Cooperatives
Liu, Yu-xiang - In: Asian Agricultural Research 03 (2011) 01
behavior of breach of contract so as to guarantee the stable development of farmers’ cooperatives; the decreasing degree of … trust can put sand in the wheels of farmers’ cooperatives. Based on these, we conduct survey of questionnaire on 197 rural … households of 10 farmers’ cooperatives in Yanliang, Xi’an, Lintong and Yanglin . By analyzing the generation of trust …
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Marketing of farmer professional cooperatives in the wave of transformed agrofood market in China
JIA, Xiangping; HUANG, Jikun; XU, Zhigang - In: China Economic Review 23 (2012) 3, pp. 665-674
economic cooperatives (FPCs) is considered to be an important strategy by the Chinese leaders. The goals of this study are to …, but there is a notable penetration of the modern supply chain via FPCs. Government-driven agribusiness facilitates farmers …
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Forest accounts: a primary case study in China
Ying, Zhang - In: International Journal of Green Economics 4 (2010) 2, pp. 205-216
Forest accounting considers physical and monetary data relating to the degree of substitutability for natural capital, and composes accounts for forest assets measured in physical and monetary terms to show the impact of the economy on the environment. It is extremely useful in formulating and...
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Economic costs of ocean acidification: A look into the impacts on shellfish production
Narita, Daiju; Rehdanz, Katrin; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2011
Ocean acidification is increasingly recognized as a major global problem. Yet economic assessments of its effects are currently almost absent. Unlike most other marine organisms, mollusks, which have significant commercial value worldwide, have relatively solid scientific evidence of biological...
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