...Ting-gui Chen; Gan Lin; Mitsuyasu Yabe Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) on the productivity of parent firms over the food industry. Design/methodology/approach The main data in this paper are derived from the China Industrial...

...Wanjun Yao; Shigeyuki Hamori Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the long-term relationship between farm size and productivity in China at the national level. Design/methodology/approach In contrast to the micro-data examination conducted by earlier literature, in this study...

...Jiawu Dai; Xun Li; Hailong Cai Purpose The purpose of this paper is to measure and examine the relationships between market power, scale economy and productivity for several important food and tobacco industries in China. Design/methodology/approach The model applied in this paper is based...

... and thus institutional innovations have been a powerful trigger to improve productivity. The gains from biotechnology for farmers are now over CND 1 billion per year in Canada. Research limitations/implications The research gains measured are for Canada so should be applied to China’s situation only...

...Dr Kevin Z. Chen, Dr Shenggen Fan and Dr Suresh Chandra Babu; Madhur Gautam; Bingxin Yu Purpose – China and India have made significant strides in transforming their agricultural sectors to cut hunger and poverty for the masses through improved agricultural productivity. Given limited land...

... Analysis Project model (GDyn) is used to analyse the potential impacts of improvements in land productivity and FDI in Africa. Findings – The results illustrate that combined efforts to improve land productivity and growth in FDI could potentially increase Africa’s share in global agricultural 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...