development modernizing agribusiness transformation

books:

Agribusiness Reforms in China: The Case of Wool (Cabi Publishing)
John W. Longworth, Colin G. Brown

CABI, 1995

China is emerging as an agribusiness giant. Domestic reforms and the readmission of China to GATT will integrate rapidly the massive Chinese agribusiness sector into international markets. China has already become a dominant player in world wool markets. Developments in relation to wool, therefore, are a harbinger of what is likely to happen in regard to many other agribusiness commodities. This book, published in collaboration with the ...

Rural Development in China: Insights from the Beef Industry (The Chinese Economy Series)
Scott A. Waldron, Colin G. Brown, ...

Ashgate Publishing, 2003

The greatest challenge facing China is to curb the growing economic divide between urban and rural people. Achieving this requires that the rural economy in general, and rural industries in particular, transform rapid growth into sustained development. However, policy makers are struggling to modernize rural industries, such as the cattle and beef industry, especially in a way that contributes to rural incomes. This book provides a systematic, ...

Modernizing China's Industries: Lessons from Wool And Wool Textiles
Colin G. Brown, Scott A. Waldron, ...

Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005

Exposed to powerful new economic forces, and undergoing dramatic ownership reforms and technological changes, China's industries are modernizing at a breakneck pace. In many industries, the outcomes have been chaotic and poorly aligned with societal objectives. This book analyses the transformation and modernization of China's industries through a detailed investigation of the wool and wool textile industries. The authors argue that to remain ...

Regionalisation and Integration in China: Lessons from the Transformation of the Beef Industry (The Chinese ...
Colin G. Brown, John W. Longworth, ...

Ashgate Publishing, 2002

Changing economic, institutional and market environments have turned the spatial inter-relationships thought to exist in China upside-down. Through an investigation of the beef industry, this text builds a picture of where regionalization and integration are heading in China. It examines the impacts of market forces, industry characteristics, relative factor endowments and government influence on the spatial organization of activities. It ...