...Zhichao Li; Yu Hao Purpose This paper investigates the impact of China's “Rural E-commerce Demonstration County” (REDC) policy on agricultural productivity, with a focus on the mechanisms through which e-commerce shapes agricultural development. Design/methodology/approach Using county-level...

... agriculture-related global value chain (GVC) participation at the country-industry level along Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries. Design/methodology/approach To focus on this impact, we calculate a relatively comprehensive composite index of digital financial inclusion (IDFI) across 40 countries...

...Yixin Zhao; Zhonghai Cheng; Yongle Chai Purpose Natural disasters profoundly influence agricultural trade sustainability. This study investigates the effects of natural disasters on agricultural production imports in China within 2002 and 2018. This exploration estimates the mediating role...

...Shenggen Fan; Sivan Yosef; Rajul Pandya-Lorch Purpose The purpose of this paper is to summarize the evolution of global and national policies linking agriculture to nutrition in 2010–2020, and provides insights on the recent policy trajectory in China to illustrate how individual countries...

...Xian Xin; Tun Lin; Xiaoyun Liu; Guanghua Wan; Yongsheng Zhang Purpose – The impacts of climate change on agricultural production in the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) are significant, and differ across regions and crops. The substantial regional differences will induce changes in agricultural...

...Don Gunasekera; Yiyong Cai; David Newth Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the key issues surrounding foreign direct investment (FDI) in agriculture, and examine the potential impacts of FDI in African agriculture. Design/methodology/approach – The dynamic Global Trade...

... cognitive, physical and labor activity (Barrett 2002 ; Horton and Ross 2003). In this paper, we capture this “wage” effect using net agricultural income from home gardening, farming, raising livestock, raising poultry and fishing. The net income from other non-agricultural sources is defined by a secondary...

...Dandan Zhang; Chunlai Chen; Yu Sheng Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of public investment in agricultural R&D and extension on broadacre farming productivity in Australia. Design/methodology/approach – An autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA...

... to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/3.0/legalcode Agriculture Benefits Effects Cotton growers The benefits of genetically modified (GM) cotton continue to be disputed, despite rapid and widespread adoption...

...Min Li; Terry Sicular Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the extent of aging in the agricultural labor force and its effect on farm production in a province of China. Design/methodology/approach The analysis uses panel data for the years 2004 through 2008 from a representative...

...Weiming Tian; Zhangyue Zhou; Jing Zhu; Shu Zhang; Wusheng Yu Purpose This paper therefore aims at systematically estimating the agricultural trade induced farm employment effects in China. Design/methodology/approach Using detailed agricultural trade and production data during 1994‐2009...

...Weiming Tian; Zhangyue Zhou; Fung Kwan; Yanrui Wu; Shuaihe Zhuo Purpose This paper aims to contribute to the pool of studies of rural underemployment in China. It is devoted to the conceptualization and measurement of surplus labour. Design/methodology/approach The agricultural labour...

.... Findings This study produced three main findings: perceived tenure security in the context of frequent agricultural land redistribution negatively affects input intensity; farmers still perceive some tenure arrangements to be more uncertain than others, which discourages them from undertaking investments...

... groups of countries categorized according to five measures of food security – consumption, production, imports, distribution, and agricultural potential – by using indicators from 175 countries. The analysis first identifies five distinct food security groups, measured by the levels of nutrient intake...

.... Shih‐Hsun Hsu can be contacted at: m577@ntu.edu.tw © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Multi‐activity DEA Shared inputs Efficiency measure Taiwan Agriculture Taiwan's farmers' cooperatives (TFCs) are the largest farmers' associations in Taiwan established since 1900...

...Lihua Li; Chenggang Wang; Eduardo Segarra; Zhibiao Nan Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between migration, remittances and agricultural productivity by applying the new economics of labor migration model in the context of north‐west China. The specific objectives...

... a model to analyze agricultural household's non‐farm participation based on heterogeneous asset endowments. The model is applied to recent data from Zhouzhi, a mountainous county in rural western China. Findings The paper shows that human capital, social capital and other capital assets have...

...Supawat Rungsuriyawiboon; Xiaobing Wang Purpose This paper aims to conduct inter‐country analysis of agricultural productivity growth in transition countries in Asia and Europe. This paper pays particular attention to the magnitude and direction of productivity growth over different stages...

...Xiaoyun Liu; Xiuqing Wang; Xian Xin Purpose China's agricultural sector has developed very rapidly in the past 30 years and agricultural technological progress is deemed one of the most substantial factors leading to its rapid agricultural GDP growth. The purpose of this paper is to assess...

... on farmers may not be immediately felt or perceived. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Pesticide use Farmers' health Visible effect Invisible effect China Production rate Agriculture Pesticides 1. importance of rice production in agriculture; 2. difference...