The Politics of Agricultural Mechanization in China
Author : Benedict Stavis
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN :
The Politics of Agricultural Cooperativization in China
Author : Frederick C Teiwes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 38,60 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1315483602
Book Description
The decision to initiate a High Tide of agricultural co-operativisation in 1955 in China, is documented in this text. The social impact, policy conflict and leadership style of Mao is detailed, drawing upon documentary sources, interviews with Party historians, and a chronology of events.
Central Control and Local Discretion in China
Author : Chae-ho Chŏng
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 31,40 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198297772
Book Description
"Theoretically, this study contends that the overall scope of local discretion is circumscribed by the dominant norms and incentive relations embedded in the implementation dynamics. Methodologically, the book employs a combination of aggregate analyses and comparative case studies. Empirically, on the basis of newly available materials (including classified documents) and interviews, it challenges the 'peasant-power' school which has somehow allowed local governments to evaporate in its descriptions of post-Mao decollectivization."--BOOK JACKET.
Agricultural Mechanization in China
Author : Steven Butler
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Agricultural administration
ISBN :
Book Description
Food, Politics, And Agricultural Development
Author : Raymond F. Hopkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 32,26 MB
Release : 2019-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429727143
Book Description
This collection of studies on the politics of agricultural development in regions of Asia and Africa emphasizes the need for steady and significant increases in food production in the developing countries. It is a set of exercises in the comparative analysis of agricultural modernization policies.
An Evolving Paradigm of Agricultural Mechanization Development
Author : Xinshen Diao
Publisher : International Food Policy Research Insitute
Page : pages
File Size : 26,6 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780896293816
Book Description
Agricultural mechanization in Africa south of the Sahara - especially for small farms and businesses - requires a new paradigm to meet the needs of the continent's evolving farming systems. Can Asia, with its recent success in adopting mechanization, offer a model for Africa? An Evolving Paradigm of Agricultural Mechanization Development analyzes the experiences of eight Asian and five African countries. The authors explore crucial government roles in boosting and supporting mechanization, from import policies to promotion policies to public good policies. Potential approaches presented to facilitating mechanization in Africa include prioritizing market-led hiring services, eliminating distortions, and developing appropriate technologies for the African context. The role of agricultural mechanization within overall agricultural and rural transformation strategies in Africa is also discussed. The book's recommendations and insights should be useful to national policymakers and the development community, who can adapt this knowledge to local contexts and use it as a foundation for further research.
China's Agrarian Transition
Author : René Trappel
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,50 MB
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0739199374
Book Description
More than thirty years ago the political turn that brought the dismantling of agricultural collectives and exclusive rights to small plots of farmland for rural families initiated a historic return to smallholding in the People’s Republic of China. Today, agriculture in China is changing again. In many villages smallholder farming is giving way to large agricultural enterprises. This book explores this latest transformation of Chinese agriculture. It traces how the peasantry’s frustration with the farming conditions, the priorities of national and local political agents and the changes in the management of collective land since the return to family-based farming have paved the way for a unique Chinese agrarian transition. The argument is based on careful analysis of agricultural politics since the early 1980s and data gathered in three field trips to Shandong, Sichuan, and Guizhou Provinces between 2008 and 2010. The findings highlight the importance of institutional path-dependencies and strategic government intervention (or its absence) for economic transformation. China’s Agrarian Transition is one of the first comprehensive accounts of the latest developments in agriculture in the People’s Republic and will provide a stimulating read for political scientists, sociologists, economists, and experts on China interested in the ongoing transformation of China’s countryside.
Political Economy Of Agricultural Trade-related Policies In China
Author : Wenshou Yan
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 34,19 MB
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9811218919
Book Description
This book seeks to understand the simultaneous economic and political contributors to China's changing agricultural protection levels and the central government's choice of policy instruments to tax or assist farmers. It theoretically explores the motivation behind agricultural trade-related support policies through extending the two-sector specific factors production model to three sectors, so as to make it more relevant for a one-party state such as China. Chapter three tests that theory empirically, using panel data on agricultural distortions for the period 1981 to 2010 from Anderson and Nelgen (2013). The long-running trend in the level of assistance to the farm sector sees considerable fluctuations in support each year, which has been attributed to fluctuations in international prices of agricultural products. Chapter four seeks to explain the Chinese government's responses to world market price fluctuations. In practice, the government does have other instruments besides trade restrictions to alter domestic producer and consumer prices in the face of fluctuating international prices. Chapter five explores the role that public storage policy can play in contributing to the government's objective of stabilizing the domestic market price of farm products. The final chapter of the book draws out implications for policymakers in China and elsewhere.
Food For One Billion
Author : Robert C. Hsu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 2019-03-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429724187
Book Description
This book examines the agricultural policies and programs adopted by the Chinese leadership since 1949 and analyzes the role of agriculture in China's changing development strategies. Dr. Hsu gives particular attention to the measures intended to improve agricultural technology and to the sources of funds for agricultural investment. He concludes that, although the collective system has been effective in mobilizing China's rural resources for agricultural development and in promoting progress in labor-intensive agricultural technology, periodic extreme leftist policies and interference by rural party cadres have caused various kinds of inefficiency, offsetting the advantages gained from collective farming. This is the first book to systematically analyze the ways in which China's agricultural development is being financed. By critically examining the level and nature of state resources allocated to agriculture, the author challenges the view that China has pursued an agriculture-first strategy of economic development since the early 1960s.
Making Green Revolution
Author : Benedict Stavis
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 26,47 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Agricultural innovations
ISBN :
