The government of China targeted conversion of farmland to industrial and residential uses,
especially in the most productive agricultural regions, as the chief threat to the nation's …

Despite of remarkable achievements in the past, China is also facing several major
challenges, in particular on ensuring sustainable growth of agriculture, improving food …

In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected,
success story. Agriculture has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of …

The paper analyzes the linkages between the reform strategies in transition countries and
economic performance. We focus on agriculture because of the sharpness of the policy …

Solutions to the problem of how the develo** world will meet its future food needs are
broader than producing more food, although the successes of the'Green Revolution' …

China is the most populous country in the world, and agriculture has played a large role in
the country's remarkable economic achievements. However, the high levels of pollution and …

Increasing the world's food supply has depended heavily on increasing agricultural
productivity, which in turn depends on investments in research and development (R&D) …

Food security is a high priority issue on the Chinese political agenda. China's food security
is challenged by several anthropogenic, sociopolitical and policy factors, including …

A panel dataset of 29 provinces in China is used to analyze the productivity growth in
China's agricultural sector over the period 1990–2003. We compute the output-oriented …

The Chinese agricultural sector has experienced a substantial increase in total output since
dramatic reforms were introduced in 1978. This paper uses the index method to measure …