Rural China in transition: Changes and transformations in China’s agriculture and rural sector

• Main Authors: DONALDSON, John A., ZHANG, Forrest Q.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: rural reform; agriculture; China; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Resource Economics; Agriculture; Asian Studies; Rural Sociology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2218; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3475/viewcontent/CCPS1_1__Donaldson_Zhang__1_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Agribusiness companies operating in China are transacting in various forms with small agricultural producers, and in doing so, transforming the household-based agriculture in rural China. We argue that the presence of these distinct forms and the diverging relations between agribusiness and producer...