China Agricultural Economic Review

2009 - 2026

Current editor(s): Dr Fu Qin, Dr Jikun Huang, Dr Kevin Z Chen, Dr Weiming Tian, Prof Daniel Sumner, Prof Xian Xin and Prof Holly Wang

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2026, month October

The impact of digital investment on AGVC resilience-with a discussion on the moderating role of domestic market size pp. 1-39

Weicong Xu, Chunding Li and Han Zhang

2025, month December, vol 18

How does the direct payment subsidy affect the economic effect of China’s grain production? pp. 418-435

Wei Jia, Ping Xue and Shiping Mao

2025, month October, vol 18

Impact of agricultural insurance on labor allocation pp. 362-379

Liuyan Chen and Haiying Gu

Impact of implementation of high-standard farmland construction policy on food production resilience: evidence from China pp. 400-417

Tao Liu, Xiaoyan Yang, Yilin Chen and Hanjin Li

2025, month September, vol 18

Labor’s adaptation to high temperatures: evidence from rural China pp. 126-143

Dong Liu, Wei Si, Qiran Zhao and Xiaolong Feng

The impact of land rental prices on agricultural technical efficiency: evidence from family farms in China pp. 144-160

Rong Cai, Jie Ma and Shujuan Wang

Does negative information on conventional meat work as an effective communication strategy to promote plant-based meat consumption? pp. 235-253

Rao Yuan, Zuer Wang, Wenchao Wu and Shaosheng Jin

The path to adoption: farmers’ willingness, behavior and willingness-behavior consistency in cultivating Bt brinjal pp. 254-272

Dilshad Zahan Ethen, Swarup Barua, Berre Deltomme, Yixuan Guo, Mohammad Jahangir Alam and Hans De Steur

Quantifying data manipulation of food inspection agencies: evidence from food safety supervision sampling in China pp. 273-293

Taiping Li, Menghui Qiu, Xiaoshan Jiang and Wenrui Zhang

The impact of collective quality reputation on markup of food exporting firms: evidence from China pp. 294-322

Lin Sun, Jie-Jing Huang, Wen-Yuan Xu and Michael R. Reed

Research on the impact of China’s digitalization on the green total factor productivity of grain pp. 323-344

Liping Zhao, Peiyuan Li, Die Hu and Yifan Jiang

Dynamic relationships between spot and futures prices of agricultural commodities in China: fresh insights from an EEMD-based quantile framework pp. 345-361

Huilian Huang and Tao Xiong

Non-agricultural employment, family separation and energy poverty: evidence from rural China pp. 380-399

Yue Li and Yingzhi Xu

2025, month August, vol 18

Bridging the urban–rural divide: the impact of medical insurance integration on health inequality in China pp. 102-125

Cheng Qin, Jianyi Liu, Yuchen Zhu, Rodney Smith and Xiangming Fang

Does residents’ digital capability affect households’ financial health? Evidence from the CFPS pp. 161-180

Mingxian Li and Lu Zhang

Can rural digital governance facilitate farmers’ participation in the improvement of the human-settled environment? Evidence from Liaoning Province, China pp. 181-198

Mi Zhou, Fei Wang and Li Huang

Social network analysis in agricultural economics: progress, challenges and prospects of an integrated methodology pp. 199-215

Rui Mao, Yu Gan and Xiaohua Yu

Unlocking farmers’ potential: the impact of ICT on farmers’ TFP in grain production pp. 217-234

Kunyang Zhang, Jinrui Zhang, Yonghao Hu, Yan Han and Laping Wu

2025, month July, vol 18

Impact of interactions within online village-affair communities on farmers’ straw return behavior in China pp. 44-62

Wenjing Zhong, Jieyi Yang and Biliang Luo

The asymmetric price effects on food demand and nutrient intake of rural low-income households in China pp. 63-84

Zemiao Xi, Yinyu Zhao, Yanjun Ren, Zhihao Zheng and Xinru Han

Ambiguity aversion and the adoption of no-tillage technology: evidence from a field experiment in China pp. 85-101

Hantao Hao, Haixia Wu, Wenrong Qian and Yan Ge

2025, month June, vol 18

Disasters, harvests and grain prices during the pre-industrial era in Pearl River Delta of China pp. 3-19

Yongqin Guo, Wei Lin, Yanping Zhao, Jiangrui Tao and Yueli Luo

Employment in the home county and migrant workers’ subjective well-being: evidence from China pp. 20-43

Wenhao Zhai and Ling Ma

2025, month October, vol 17

Digital inclusive finance and agriculture-related global value chain participation in BRI countries pp. 487-506

Hao Wei, Wenqi Hu and Pompeo Della Posta

2025, month September, vol 17

Analyzing border effects on China’s agricultural trade pp. 445-463

Ling Li and Hanho Kim

2025, month July, vol 17

Unveiling the response of food inflation to the economic policy uncertainty, energy price shocks and carbon emission pp. 757-772

Amritkant Mishra and Vaishnavi Sakuja

2025, month June, vol 17

Factor-biased agricultural productivity improvement and industrialization: evidence from the Belt and Road Countries pp. 507-526

Kunling Zhang and Biwei Chen

African swine fever, consumer confidence and pork consumption behaviours in China: a case study in Shanghai pp. 825-841

Zengjin Liu, Zheyi Zhu, Ziping Wu and Ke Ning

2025, month May, vol 17

Costs and benefits of clean heating subsidies for rural residents in northern China pp. 641-662

Jianglong Li, Qianyun Peng, Dan Li and Hongxun Liu

Can digital finance improve farmers’ agricultural production resilience? pp. 697-716

Zheyu Miao, Yueshu Zhou and Qianting Ma

The wings of digitalization: rural digital governance and subjective well-being pp. 717-735

Hanjie Wang, Wenpeng Huang and Jiali Han

Path to sustainable development of livestock: does environmental protection tax matter in livestock green total factor productivity? pp. 736-756

Jing Li, Zhen Han, Mingli Wang and Jinkai Li

Surplus manure and barren croplands: strategies for recycling livestock manure to rebuild crop-livestock linkages beyond the farm level pp. 773-794

Ying Wang, Guanghui Jiang and Hao Hu

The spatial impacts of construction of digital village on the development of county-level care industry for older people pp. 795-824

Wei He, Huan Liu and Meng Wang

2025, month April, vol 17

Unlocking the efficiency and potential of China’s agricultural exports to RCEP member countries: perspectives on the entire agricultural industry chain pp. 464-486

Haiwen Cheng, Yang Sun and Wen Liu

Transnational financial assistance and enhancement of agricultural production value: a perspective based on China–Africa agricultural cooperation practices pp. 551-563

Wei Yuan, Wenjin Guan, Guoyi Zhang, Xun Xu and Sheng Li

Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on rural energy poverty: evidence and mechanisms pp. 564-588

Hongxu Shi, Youya Dong, Jinhao Zhang and Xiangdong Sun

The development of new rural financial institutions and agricultural total factor productivity pp. 625-640

Wenhao Song, Zuhui Huang, Weibin Hu and Xiaxin Li

Urban-rural economic inequality: is social entrepreneurship the solution? pp. 663-678

Di Mao, Jiakeng Chen and Shunshun Hu

The differential effect of tariffs and non-tariff changes on agricultural exports: evidence from China’s RTAs pp. 679-696

Meixiu Cheng and Yangfen Chen

2025, month March, vol 17

Evolutionary dynamics of agricultural trade in Central Asia under the Belt and Road Initiative pp. 527-550

Yiru Liu, Xiaoyan Wu, Longfeng Zhao, Weiping Wang and Ming Wang

The impact of China’s OFDI on host countries’ food security: empirical study based on panel data from 46 countries pp. 607-624

Qian Liu, Jing Li, Jiahe Wang and Zhihua Chen

2025, month February, vol 17

Stepping stone: the logic of financial inclusion through microfinance – evidence from China’s largest commercial microfinance institution pp. 398-414

Nan Zhou, Wenli Cheng and Longyao Zhang

The spatial impact of digitalization on carbon emission intensity in agricultural production: empirical evidence from rural China pp. 415-440

Liping Zhao, Xi Rao and Die Hu

Is e-commerce widening or narrowing the income distribution gap among Chinese households? pp. 589-606

Yan Mei, Nuoyan Lin, Bangqi Hu and Xihua Zhang

2025, month January, vol 17

The impact of digital agricultural insurance on farmers’ fertilizer reduction technology adoption: evidence from China pp. 379-397

Ying Dong, Chenglin Jia and Liufang Su

2024, month December, vol 17

Psychological capital and the entrepreneurial performance of migrant workers: intermediary role of entrepreneurial opportunity identification pp. 303-324

Hongyu Ma, Yongmei Carol Zhang, Federico Guillermo Topolansky Barbe and Mark Stuart

How penetration of e-commerce in rural areas drives consumption in China pp. 339-357

Yang Liu, Mi Zhou and Quansheng Li

Marketing contracts and technical efficiency of citrus production pp. 358-378

Hepei Zhang and Wanglin Ma

2024, month November, vol 17

The impact of improving element quality on the comprehensive production capacity of grain: evidence from high-standard farmland construction pp. 131-149

Xuetao Sun, Yu Zhao and Guangsheng Zhang

Climate legislation and green agricultural production: impacts, transmission mechanisms and heterogeneities pp. 150-170

Chao Feng and Xiaoyue Zhang

Rural households' livelihood transitions in China: processes, drivers and outcomes pp. 171-190

Hongping Cui, Ying Wang, Weiwen Wang and Chongchong Liu

Determinants of consumer purchase decisions of plant-based milk alternatives: the role of preferences for product attributes pp. 191-211

Wenfan Su, Zhifeng Gao, Songhan Li and Jiping Sheng

Rich and fat? Isolating the causal effect of obesity on income among Chinese rural residents by Mendelian randomization pp. 233-251

Wenyan Xu, Qiran Zhao, Wei Si and Chen Zhu

Dissecting the provincial relative poverty dynamics in China: a new four-dimensional decomposition approach pp. 252-268

Weihong Sun, Manding Wang and Ding Liu

Impact of technology adoption on livestock production efficiency incorporating grassland productivity pp. 269-285

Yi Huang, Zhipeng Huang, Gang Xu and Yan Zhang

Achieving inclusive urbanization through county-led industrial specialization: from the perspective of rural labor supply pp. 286-302

Chaoran Hu, Yi Zhou and Maolong Chen

Can regional polycentric spatial structure narrow the urban–rural income gap? Evidence from China pp. 325-338

Qiuyang Zhou

2024, month October, vol 17

Taxation and entrepreneurship of migrant workers: evidence from China pp. 89-113

Lulu Huang, Conghui Jiao and Qiannan Liu

Impact of fiscal poverty alleviation funds on poverty mitigation and economic expansion: evidence from provincial panel data in China pp. 114-130

Bingde Duan and Shenglong Liu

2024, month September, vol 17

Effect of education on crop insurance knowledge: evidence from a RCT in China pp. 1-21

Feier Yan, Fujin Yi and Huang Chen

The impact of social network and resource endowment of smallholders on sustainable apple production pp. 22-41

Shilei Cui, Donasius Pathera, Yajuan Li and Xiaoqiang Jiao

Impact of agricultural land ownership on child nutrition in rural Sudan: an investigation across gender pp. 42-63

Samia Mohamed Nour and Ebaidalla M. Ebaidalla

Tripartite evolutionary game analysis of government reward and punishment mechanisms and agricultural resilience under a dual carbon context pp. 64-88

Xiaoli Zhou and Mingyang Han

2024, month July, vol 17

Non-tariff and tariff impediments affecting spatial competition between the United States and Brazil for soybean shipments to China pp. 212-232

William Wilson and David Bullock

2024, month September, vol 16

Typologies of South African small-scale farmers and their risk perceptions: an unsupervised machine learning approach pp. 804-827

Sara Yazdan Bakhsh, Kingsley Ayisi, Reimund P. Rötter, Wayne Twine and Jan-Henning Feil

Are farmers willing to pay for low-carbon agriculture? Evidence from China pp. 910-931

Wanping Yang, Muge Mou, Lan Mu and Xuanwen Zeng

Sidestepping the heat waves and cold snaps: how does extreme climate influence agricultural labor reallocation in China pp. 932-951

Xiahai Wei, Chenyu Zeng and Yao Wang

2024, month August, vol 16

What does it take to revolutionize Chinese diets: evidence from a choice experiment on urban Chinese consumers pp. 850-870

Kevin Z. Chen, Luyun Yu, Wen Lin and David L. Ortega

Media coverage of food safety and expenditures for food away from home: empirical evidence from China’s family panel studies pp. 871-888

Tao Li, Zifang Tian, Yang Wang and Caiping Zhang

Trade and energy efficiency: theory and evidence pp. 889-909

Geng Huang, Xi Lin and Ling-Yun He

2024, month July, vol 16

When cobweb meets oligopoly pp. 787-803

Qianqian Zhang, Faqin Lin, Xiuqing Wang and Xian Xin

Does the quality grading system matter? Chinese consumer response to pork quality grading labels and the impact of information pp. 828-849

Qinyuan Shen, Zhifeng Gao and Zhanguo Zhu

2024, month June, vol 16

Digital inclusive finance and entrepreneurship in rural areas: evidence from China pp. 712-730

Chenwei Yu, Eddie Chi-man Hui and Zhaoyingzi Dong

Nudge research in agricultural economics: two-decade retrospective of empirical evidence pp. 731-746

Tajana Čop and Mario Njavro

Rural–urban differences in the intergenerational transmission of cognitive capabilities in China: evidence from a Northwestern province of China pp. 747-762

Lei Wang, Dorien Emmers, Sean Sylvia, Yu Bai and Scott Rozelle

Can China’s rural revitalisation policies be an example for other countries aligning with sustainable development goals (SDGs)-1, 2 and 12? pp. 763-786

Md. Ziaul Islam

2024, month May, vol 16

Economic-environmental assessment of emission tax policy in developing countries: evidence from Iran pp. 368-386

Shahrokh Shakerin, Seyed Nematollah Moosavi and Abbas Aminifard

Digital economy and China's agricultural exports: based on trade cost and market competition effect pp. 489-506

Yuchen Liu, Yinguo Dong and Weiwen Qian

From pixels to production: the impact of digital finance on the industrial fabric of rural China pp. 527-544

Yifeng Zhang and Min-Xuan Ji

Does unstable off-farm employment cause stagnant farmland rent-out in rural China? pp. 545-567

Yueming Cao, Dongjie Zhou and Yunli Bai

Urbanization and economic growth in China: empirical evidence based on a SIVQR approach pp. 568-590

Vardges Hovhannisyan and Serhat Asci

The synergy effect of agricultural dual-scale management on farmers' income: evidence from rural China pp. 591-607

Guanqiu Yin, Xia Xu, Huilan Piao and Jie Lyu

New forms of employment: development of take-away delivery and urban–rural wage inequality pp. 609-628

Ziming Gao

Do climate disasters make farmers more willing to cooperate? Evidence from rural communities in southern China pp. 629-645

Zhe Dai, Yazhen Gong, Shashi Kant and Guodong Ma

A sustainable approach to improving agrifood production: getting the balance right between organic soil amendments and chemical fertilizers pp. 646-663

Puneet Vatsa, Hongyun Zheng and Wanglin Ma

Does off-farm work induce farmland abandonment? Evidence from China pp. 664-682

Linyi Zheng

Place-based rural development programs and the labor allocation of farm households pp. 683-711

Jhih-Yun Liu, Brian Lee and Hung-Hao Chang

2024, month April, vol 16

Natural disasters and agricultural trade in China: analyzing the role of transportation, government and diplomacy pp. 226-248

Yixin Zhao, Zhonghai Cheng and Yongle Chai

Saving farm subsidies with smart climate interventions: the case of transition to a millet-based agriculture pp. 249-266

Balaji Sedithippa Janarthanan

How green finance boosts carbon efficiency in agriculture: a quasi-experiment from China pp. 267-289

Yayun Ren, Zhongmin Ding and Junxia Liu

An analysis of long-term and short-term impact of climate change on rice production in India pp. 290-319

Arshdeep Singh, Kashish Arora and Suresh Chandra Babu

How do digital media strengthen the role of social networks in promoting farmers' adoption of climate change mitigation measures? pp. 445-467

Qiqi Liu and Tingwu Yan

Multidimensional relative poverty alleviation of the targeted microcredit in rural China: a gendered perspective pp. 468-488

Benjian Wu, Linyi Niu, Ruiqi Tan and Haibo Zhu

Grain price support policy and the distortion of market price pp. 507-526

Yanwen Tan, Ruixue Yue, Liru Chen, Congxi Li and Kevin Z. Chen

2024, month March, vol 16

The multiple effects of farmland infrastructure investment on agrifood systems in China—an interdisciplinary model analysis pp. 320-339

Yumei Zhang, Ming Lei, Xiangmin Lan, Xiangyang Zhang, Shenggen Fan and Ji Gao

2024, month February, vol 16

“Fruit basket upset”: spatially explicit crop mixture responses to climatic and economic pressures pp. 207-225

Richard Robertson, Athanasios Petsakos, Chun Song, Nicola Cenacchi and Elisabetta Gotor

Tripartite evolutionary game and simulation analysis of brand enhancement for geographical indications agri-food pp. 340-367

Weixia Yang, Congli Xie and Lindong Ma

Can we design food taxes to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in China? A perspective from animal protein intake of low-income populations pp. 389-420

Jiao Chen, Dingqiang Sun, Funing Zhong, Yanjun Ren and Lei Li

2024, month January, vol 16

How does COVID-19 distort the impact of information interventions on low-carbon diet transitions: a case of dairy consumption in China pp. 421-444

Li Zhou, Zifan Su, Lei Lei and Zheng Wei