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>

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,...

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...

Most existing studies of food demand focus on economic factors, such as income and price. Physical factors which determine human energy intake requirement, given economic conditions, such as gender and age structures of the population as well as occupation, are usually not incorporated. While...