...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...

...Jin‐Tao Zhan; Yan‐Rui Wu; Xiao‐Hui Zhang; Zhang‐Yue Zhou Purpose The number of farms engaged in grain production in China has been declining in recent years. Limited efforts have been devoted to examine why producers quit from grain production and how such exits affect China's grain output...

...Associate; Yanling Wang; Xiaohua Yu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the structural problem in the Chinese dairy sector. There exists a large number of low‐efficiency, small‐scale farms, and productivity inequality between small and large farms keeps increasing, which is a possible...

... areas Education Farms China Article Type: 2011 Awards for excellence From: China Agricultural Economic Review, Volume 4, Issue 1 The following article was selected for this year's Outstanding Paper Award for China Agricultural Economic Review “The challenges facing young...

.... Design/methodology/approach Using nationally representative survey data, the paper gives detailed discussions on the young rural laborers' education attainments, and their off‐farm employment status including job patterns, working hours, and hourly wage rates. The relationship between education...

... a survey of over 1,500 households including general linear model and logistic regression results. The paper finds evidence of a “small farm bias” in the use of informal credit, but the paper cannot generalize this to credit rationing as a matter of course. In part, it is believed that a preference...

...H. Holly Wang; Veronica Wachong Castro; Nico Heerink; Xiaoping Shi; Wei Qu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to gain more insight into the relationship between off‐farm employment of rural households and water‐saving investments and irrigation water use in rural China. Design/methodology...

... on 1,564 farm households surveyed in Shaanxi, Henan, and Gansu provinces in Central China between October 2007 and 2008. Findings Results suggest that the greater risk for farmers is drought followed by excessive rain. Heat is less critical as a risk but more significant than cool weather. Results...

... has provided the institutional demand and the latter has provided institutional supply. Farms Land Property rights China Logically, the possibilities for the five public domains to be created, expanded or deformed are different. Regarding PDI, it is merely related to technical factors...

... addressing this topic focuses on contract farming while limited research touches upon the issues of trust and relations. However, a combination of both contracting and relationships are seldom addressed. Originality/value This paper evaluates a novel concept of two dimensional governance structure...