China's Agriculture at the Cross Roads
China's Agriculture at the Cross Roads

Author: Y. Yang

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2000-01-27

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 0333978102

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China now faces the difficult choice of whether to pursue a food self-sufficiency policy or further integrate its agriculture into the world market. China's choice will have profound implications for the world trading system, as well as for its own economy. At the same time, China needs to reform its land tenure and grain marketing systems. This book examines these majority policy issues using up-to-date information and empirical evidence.

Global Report
Global Report

Author: International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science, and Technology for Development (Project)

Publisher: Iaastd

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13:

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"In addition to assessing existing conditions and knowledge, the IAASTD uses a simple set of model projections to look at the future, based on knowledge from past events and existing trends such as population growth, rural/urban food and poverty dynamics, loss of agricultural land, water availability, and climate change effects. This set of volumes comprises the findings of the IAASTD. It consists of a Global Report, a brief Synthesis Report, and 5 subglobal reports. Taken as a whole, the IAASTD reports are an indispensable reference for anyone working in the field of agriculture and rural development, whether at the level of basic research, policy, or practice."--BOOK JACKET.

Agricultural Research at the Crossroads
Agricultural Research at the Crossroads

Author: Bo M I Bengtsson

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2019-09-17

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1439843244

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It is necessary to integrate field data relevant to policy with a global overview with up-to-date information for synthesis into scenarios and a vision of how future research and development in agriculture can best help those who are most needy and have little access to productive resources. The overall task is a huge challenge for policy-makers and the agricultural research establishment. It is also of concern in teaching agricultural students to be able to respond to future challenges. This publication is an attempt to stimulate discussion on future options of research policy, suggesting changes of agricultural R&D for societal development in accordance with the Millennium Development Goals.

China's Agricultural Development
China's Agricultural Development

Author: Xiao-yuan Dong

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1351952153

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This book identifies the main challenges Chinese agriculture is confronting and considers how these challenges might be met. The performance of China's agricultural production is comprehensively assessed while the factors that affect agricultural productivity are examined through detailed econometric analysis and up to date nationally representative data.

Crossroads of Cuisine
Crossroads of Cuisine

Author: Paul David Buell

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-11-04

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9004432108

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Crossroads of Cuisine offers history of food and cultural exchanges in and around Central Asia. It discusses geographical base, and offers historical and cultural overview. A photo essay binds it all together. The book offers new views of the past.

The Cultures of Ancient Xinjiang, Western China: Crossroads of the Silk Roads
The Cultures of Ancient Xinjiang, Western China: Crossroads of the Silk Roads

Author: Alison Betts

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2019-12-19

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1789694078

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One of the least known but culturally rich and complex regions located at the heart of Asia, Xinjiang was a hub for the Silk Roads, serving international links between cultures to the west, east, north and south. Trade, artefacts, foods, technologies, ideas, beliefs, animals and people traversed the glacier covered mountain and desert boundaries.

Agricultural Development in China, 1949-1989
Agricultural Development in China, 1949-1989

Author: Kenneth Richard Walker

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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Kenneth Walker, the doyen of modern Chinese economic studies from the 1960s until his death in 1989, was the world's most authoritative commentator on China's agricultural development in the first four decades of the People's Republic. With an unparalleled authority derived from the use of primary Chinese sources, his collected papers provide a unique account of this era. In addition to their historical importance, the papers offer valuable insight into contemporary China's agricultural sector, which arguably poses the most serious economic and social problems for the Bejing government today. Including the posthumously-published study of `Food and Mortality During the Great Leap Forward,' Walker's comprehensive analysis of forty years of China's agricultural development will be a valuable resource for scholars and researchers of China, as well as undergraduates and postgraduates.

Eurasian Crossroads
Eurasian Crossroads

Author: James A. Millward

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 9780231139243

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Presents a comprehensive study of the central Asian region of Xinjiang's history and people from antiquity to the present. Discusses Xinjiang's rich environmental, cultural and ethno-political heritage.