Farm size plays a critical role in agricultural sustainability. This may have far-reaching
consequences for the economic and environmental performance of agricultural production …

Fertilizer overuse by smallholder farmers is widespread in China, leading to significant
financial losses and threatening the environment. Understanding what mechanism behind …

A series of fundamental and market-oriented reforms since 1978 have dramatically
reshaped China's agricultural sector, which had been sluggish during the socialist period …

Income inequality is undoubtedly a potential economic and social risk for any country in the
world. For China, the improvement in agricultural production capacity and the steady …

The last two years have seen a huge amount of academic, policy-making and media interest
in the increasingly contentious issue of land grabbing-the large-scale acquisition of land in …

This paper examines China's overseas land-based investments in agriculture. Our
hypothesis is that–despite extensive media, NGO and scholarly attention to China'sglobal …

China is perhaps the most prominent example of a developing country that has transitioned
from taxing to supporting agriculture. In recent years, Chinese price supports and subsidies …

In the past thirty years, China has made great strides in terms of boosting food production
while simultaneously reducing the number of its rural poor. This success was largely …

'Meat grabbing'describes actually existing land deals undertaken for industrial meat
production, either directly in the form of animal housing and stocking (confined animal …

In addition to environmental change, the structure and trends of global politics and the
economy are also changing as more countries join the ranks of the world's largest …