Using a unique survey data on agricultural traders in China in 2004, this study provides direct evidence on the significance of inter-regional trade barriers and their key components. Our major findings are as follows. (1) The trade barriers within China are fairly small, accounting for about 20...

Contractual breaches are very prevalent in developing countries, such as in China. In order to prevent breaches of contracts, the contractual designs between farmers and agricultural processors (Dragon-Heads Firms) in China, innovate in two ways: organizational innovations and contractual...

This paper employs the production function-based method proposed by Just and Pope (1978, 1979) to explicitly analyze production risk in the context of Chinese grain farming and climate change, and test for potential endogeneity of climate factors in Chinese grain production. Our results indicate...

China’s agricultural productivity has achieved remarkable accomplishments in agricultural sector after China’s accession to World Trade Organization (WTO). According to National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBSC), the total meat production in 2018 is 43% more than in 2000, and the total...

Entrepreneurship in agriculture is becoming of greater importance with the changing framework conditions for agricultural production. The present dissertation analyses this topic from different angles in order to gain a comprehensive picture of the current situation in Germany and to provide...

The rapid growth of human population has impacted on global food security, development and health. Therefore, efforts to achieve the sustainable development goals of reducing poverty and hunger needs to particularly focus on the critical linkages between agriculture, nutrition, health and...