of cotton into China. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews first the possible arguments for raising the tariff … tariff on cotton has been a subject of intense debate in China and this paper is intended to provide an input into this … debate. The paper agrees that urgent action is clearly needed to mitigate the poverty problems in rural China, but concludes …

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of remittance income on rural households in China …. Design/methodology/approach – Using data from a large survey of farming households in three Chinese provinces, the impacts of … a large data set from three distinct provinces of China and is among the first to investigate the different types of …

provides a brief and general image of the Chinese RCMS and helps people to understand the RCMS in China.  …Purpose – In recent years, the focus of the Chinese Government has deviated from economic growth to overall societal … China. Design/methodology/approach – This paper adopts a time approach, meaning the paper is organized by initiate …

Chinese civilization is continuously developing, and it can be used as a reference for the development of Chinese agriculture … concerning Chinese traditional agriculture, including view of sancai , farming season, fertility, the nature of matters …, recycling, and economization. Findings – The results reveal that the nature of Chinese traditional agriculture is akin to …

Purpose – Since the start of the twenty‐first century China has stepped into a new stage of harmonious urban … brief review of China's rural reform with focus on the policy framework and changes since the reform of rural tax and fee … system in 2000. Next, the paper focuses on food security to discuss grain price increase and China's grain imports, then the …

Purpose – Chinese agri‐food chains consist of the millions of small scale farmers, who are not well structured and …‐food chains in China is becoming the issue of how to link these small‐scale farmers into the modern chains. Consequently, it is … aspects, such as trust, in the Chinese context. Future research is needed to empirically test this model. Findings – The …

investigates whether or not rural farm households in China balance business risks from agricultural production with financial risk … independent variables. Findings – The model shows evidence of risk balancing. That is, there is strong evidence that Chinese … Chinese policy makers could encourage the use of finacial leverage and prudent debt use by offering risk reducing programs …

Purpose – The social safety net of health care insurance is rapidly expanding in rural China. New Rural Cooperative … Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005. Based on Andersen's access to medical care model …

Purpose – Historically, China's political attempts to provide access to rural credit has met with mixed results and an … institutions in China appears to have robbed from the poor to lend to the rich, with actions that severely depleted the lending … the many policy‐driven financial institutions that dominated the rural financial system in China. More recently, ongoing …