Diese Dissertation verwendet Paneldaten aus dem westlichen Kamerun, um die Auswirkung von Kleinkrediten auf das Haushaltseinkommen zu liefern. Die Panel-Daten-Analyse, die in dieser Arbeit verwendet wird, umfasst drei Zeitpunkte: 2002, 2004 und 2011. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Kleinkredite...

The Chinese agri-food industry is evolving into an imperfectly competitive market in our observation. The issue deserves more attention from the policymakers since any negligible departure from the perfectly competitive market in agriculture would generate enormous extra profits for firms and...

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...

Climatic risks are a major challenge for rural communities, especially those whose livelihoods directly depend on agriculture. Weather extremes affect crop productivity not only through the direct relationship between weather variables and yields, but also through the negative effects of such...

There is growing evidence that the current agri-food system is not sustainable, because major environmental and ethical issues challenge the global development. Against this complex background it becomes clear, that sustainable food is a global issue, relevant for individual consumers as well as...

This article proposes a simple and straightforward method which only requires the information of expenditure share and the compensated own price elasticity to calibrate <italic>ex ante</italic> consumer welfare change due to price change, while specific price information is not required. It is applied to...

This paper presents a meta-analysis of 5308 observations of total factor productivity growth (TFPG) in China from 150 primary studies to provide some insightful explanations to the controversies about productivity growth in China in the current literature. The main findings include that (1) the...

A substantial amount of China’s rapid economic growth in has been attributed to its large proportion of rural-urban migrants, but more than 80% of these migrants’ children are still left in rural areas mainly due to China’s household registration system. Identification of the impact of...