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Communist Agricultureby Wä Karl-Eugen dekin
Routledge 1990; US$ 210.00The agrarian policies of China, Mongolia, Vietnam and Cuba are compared and assessed, together providing a fascinating account of agricultural development in socialist economies. more...
China's Agriculture at the Crossroadsby Yongzheng Yang; Weiming Tian
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2000; US$ 140.00China now faces the difficult choice of whether to pursue a food self-sufficiency policy or further integrate its agriculture into the world market. China's choice will have profound implications for the world trading system, as well as for its own economy. At the same time, China needs to reform its land tenure and grain marketing systems. This book examines these majority policy issues using up-to-date information and empirical evidence. more...
Rural Development in Transitional Chinaby Peter Ho; Jacob Eyferth; Eduard Vermeer
Frank Cass 2004; US$ 69.95This book offers an authoritative and in-depth analysis of the social and economic changes that have swept through the Chinese countryside in the last twenty years. more...
China's Livestock Revolution Agribusiness and Policy Developments in the Sheep Meat Industryby S. Waldron
CAB International 2007; US$ 79.90China is one of the world's largest developing agricultural countries and dominates the international livestock revolution in terms of its aggregate size and growth rate. While the sheep meat industry is still in the early stages of development, it is an excellent example of the upheaval taking place in Chinese agriculture. This book focuses on the growing sheep meat industry while drawing on associated research from other areas of the Chinese livestock section. Using this research, the authors use the sheep meat industry case study to illustrate the broader trends that apply more generally to the Chinese livestock sector, especially in the case of ruminant livestock. more...
Agricultural Biotechnology in Chinaby Valerie J. Karplus; Xing Wang Deng
Springer 2008; US$ 109.00Offers a comprehensive examination of how the origins of biotechnology research agendas, along with the effectiveness of the seed delivery system and biosafety oversight, help to explain current patterns of crop development and adoption in China. more...
OECD Review of Agricultural Policies, China 2005by OECD Publishing
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2005; US$ 70.00This book presents a comprehensive overview and assessment of China's agricultural policies combined with OECD estimates of the level of support provided to the Chinese farm sector. It also examines such issues as welfare impacts of liberalisation; Chinese agricultural commodity markets; grain stock estimates; labour mobility and rural poverty in China; and food safety. more...
China's Agriculture in the International Trading Systemby OECD Publishing
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2001; US$ 100.00Chinese decision-makers are grappling with policy choices that will optimise the gains from Chinas integration into the international trading system in harmony with social, regional and sustainable development goals. Trade liberalisation can significantly enhance the reform process underway and bring great benefits to China. But the agricultural sector faces the greatest challenges and potential hardships of any economic sector from this process. Significant domestic policy reform and structural adjustment will be critical to enable China to realise its comparative advantage in agriculture and to redeploy an estimated 150 million redundant farmers. To sharpen understanding of the policy options, the OECD invited Chinese and international... more...
Seeds and Synergiesby Song Yiching; Ronnie Vernooy
International Development Research Centre 2010; US$ 32.00The many connections that seeds have or can lead to for improving rural livelihoods and quality of life are fascinating and worth in-depth examination.Norman Uphoff, Cornell University Policy makers and plant breeders should read this! Janice Jiggins, Wageningen University & Research Centre Farmers and researchers too often live and work in different realities. Researchers breed plant hybrids in the laboratory that are successful only under ideal conditions, requiring just the right inputs of water, fertilizer, and pesticides. For resource-poor farmers, however, such conditions simply dont exist. As a result, they either obtain poor results from high-tech seeds or continue to do the best they can with local varieties. Seeds... more...
Agricultural Science & Technology in Chinaby Qiguo Zhao; Jikun Huang
Springer 2011; US$ 99.00As one of the eighteen field-specific reports comprising the comprehensive scope of the strategic general report of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, this sub-report addresses long-range planning for developing science and technology in the field of agriculture. They each craft a roadmap for their sphere of development to 2050. In their entirety, the general and sub-group reports analyze the evolution and laws governing the development of science and technology, describe the decisive impact of science and technology on the modernization process, predict that the world is on the eve of an impending S&T revolution, and call for China to be fully prepared for this new round of S&T advancement. Based on the detailed study of the demands on S&T innovation... more...
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