... China Agricultural policy Food policy Agricultural technology Agricultural institutions Agribusiness © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only 15 02 2017 16 05 2017 12 06 2017 12 06 2017 Jen Ma can be contacted...

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... China Health Agribusiness Agricultural policy Food policy As societies evolve from food shortages to food sufficiency so expectations of food suppliers evolve to food affordability, safety and eventually sustainability. In the case of the leading food producers in the USA, European Union...

... declined significantly. Global Hunger Index 2014 report of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) shows considerable improvement in India’s hunger index and in the percentage of underweight children – from 24.2 in 2005 to 17.8 in 2014 – an increase of 6.4 points. Also, out of 76 countries...

... be contacted at: s.fan@cgiar.org © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 China India Agricultural policy Nutrition Food policy Food security Comparative analysis With over two and a half billion people between them, China and India are responsible for the food and nutrition security...

... Agricultural policy Food policy Comparative analysis As two of the world’s most populous countries, with significant shares of their population living in rural areas and affected by what happens in agriculture, China and India naturally invoke interest in their respective and comparative agricultural...

...). Professor Xian Xin can be contacted at: xinxian@cau.edu.cn © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 China Agricultural policy Land use Food policy Scalefarming China’s agricultural development has witnessed tremendous success and continuous growth in output in the past decades...

... and strictly concave, that is, U′>0 and U′′<0. The decision problem facing the farmer can be written as following: (Equation 5) Agricultural policy Food policy Agricultural technology Agricultural supply and demand analysis The major breakthrough of agricultural biotechnology...

... as IQ in exporting and importing countries. China Comparative analysis Agribusiness Agricultural trade Agricultural policy Food policy Agricultural institutions © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Figure 1 confirms that agro-food exports from the BRIC countries have...

... Agricultural policy Food policy Agricultural price Inflation in China has been modest during the past decade. In particular, consumer price index (CPI) inflation has been below 5 percent and non-food price inflation has been moderate (below 2 percent) since the late-1990s, as evident in Figure 1...

...@igsnrr.ac.cn © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Agricultural policy Food policy Agricultural trade The proliferation and enhanced stringency of food safety standards become a growing concern among countries that are increasingly integrating into world agricultural trade. Many...

... Agricultural marketing Food policy Agricultural policy Alternative marketing arrangements In Table III , the results show that the elasticities of own price variables in the spot markets are higher than those in the marketing contracts. This result can be explained as follows. First, the spot market...

... and forecasts for grain security in China in 2020 and 2030. The findings suggest that China needs to take appropriate measures to ensure future grain security. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Agricultural policy Food policy Agricultural supply and demand analysis With regard...

... Agricultural policy Food policy There have been a few empirical studies particularly for Chinese agriculture. Benjamin and Brandt (2002) attributed the IR in China's agriculture to the local administrative (instead of market) allocation of land and the extent of unevenly developed non-agricultural...

... to which little literature refers. The results not only reveal the efficient determinants of apple production, but also provide suggestions for agricultural policy makers. China Agricultural institutions Agricultural policy Food policy Agricultural technology Technical efficiency Allocative...

... regions are not significant. Research limitations/implications The results may shed some light on the national food policy. First, any food policy that may affect prices of fresh fruits and vegetables will likely affect households in lower percentiles more than those in upper percentiles. In addition...