Author: Fred GalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Demand for Food Quantity and Quality in China
Author: Fred GalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Estimating Demand for Food Quantity and Quality in Urban China
Author: Mendis S. S. MurukkuwaduraPublisher:
ISBN: 9780355855852
Category : Food
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
It has been well documented that food consumers in China have undergone major dietary changes recently. Specifically, elements of western diet have been incorporated into the traditional Chinese food diet with the former known to be more reliant on animal products for protein, and fine grains as a replacement for coarse grains. While most research effort has been devoted to the analysis of quantity response to the changing economic environment, the quality aspect of food consumption has received relatively scant attention. This study modifies an existing analytical framework to empirically examine consumer demand for food quality in light of the improving economic conditions in China. It builds upon a theory-consistent demand model, namely the Linear Approximate Exact Affine Stone Index system. This improves upon previous demand models by accounting for unobserved consumer heterogeneity and allowing for arbitrary Engel curves. Importantly, the analysis is conducted at a disaggregate level to account for the effects of observed and unobserved regional heterogeneity on demand for food quality. Evaluating possible structural changes in consumer food expenditures in China is of paramount importance, given the ever-increasing global role of China and the implications of the structural food preference changes for the global food system. The major findings emerging from this study indicate that income is an important determinant of the structure of food expenditures, and the relatively more affluent provinces have a higher affinity for food quality.
Who Will Feed China?
Author: Lester BrownPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000968499
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Originally published in 1995, but with enduring relevance in a time of global population growth and food insecurity, when it was first published, this book attracted much global attention, and criticism from Beijing. It argued that even as water becomes scarcer in a land where 80% of the grain crop is irrigated, as per-acre yield gains are erased by the loss of agricultural land to industrialization, and as food production stagnates, China still increases its population by the equivalent of a new Beijing each year. This book predicts that in an integrated world economy, China’s rising food prices will become the world’s rising food prices. China’s land scarcity will come everyone’s land scarcity and water scarcity in China will affect the entire world. China’s dependence on massive imports, like the collapse of the world’s fisheries, will be a wake-up call that we are colliding with the earth’s capacity to feed us. Over time, Janet Larsen argued, China’s leaders came to ‘acknowledge how Who Will Feed China? changed their thinking..’ As China’s wealth increases, so do the dietary demands of its population. The increasing middle classes demand more grain-intensive meat and farmed fish. The issue of who will feed China has not gone away.
Demand for Food Quantity and Quality in China - Scholar's Choice Edition
Author: Departm Economic Research Service (Ers)Publisher:
ISBN: 9781298044341
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
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China's food economy to the twenty-first century
Author: Huang, JikunPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896296261
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Demand for Food Quality in Rural China
Author: Xiaohua YuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Many studies of food demand do not use actual prices but unit values, obtained by dividing expenditures by the quantity consumed. This can bias empirical analyses because unit values are not exogenous market prices; they reflect household food quality choices within each food category. This article develops a framework for assessing the resulting bias in income and price elasticities of demand and applies the framework to data for rural China. Empirical results indicate that households in rural China tend to consume higher-quality food as income increases, with a greater sensitivity to income for basic foods than for luxury foods.
Food Consumption in China
Author: Zhang-Yue ZhouPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 178254920X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Recent decades have seen China�s domestic consumption in sectors such as food, housing, health care, education and travel greatly increase. This important book assesses China�s current food consumption trends and the outlook for its future needs of suc
The Demand for Food Quality in Rural China
Author: Xiaohua YuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Many studies of food demand do not use actual prices but unit values, obtained by dividing expenditures by the quantity consumed. This can bias empirical analyses because unit values are not exogenous market prices; they reflect household food quality choices within each food category. This article develops a framework for assessing the resulting bias in income and price elasticities of demand and applies the framework to data for rural China. Empirical results indicate that households in rural China tend to consume higher-quality food as income increases, with a greater sensitivity to income for basic foods than for luxury foods.
China’s Agricultural Trade: Competitive Conditions and Effects on U.S. Exports
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437983480
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
China's Food Economy to the 21st Century
Author: Jikun HuangPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description