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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. Contents; List Of Figures And Tables; Preface And Acknowledgements; Abbreviations And Glossary; List Of Contributors; 1 Agricultural Reform: An Unfinished Long March; Part I Setting The Scene; 2 Issues And Challenges In Agricultural Reform; 3 A Changing Global Food Market:implications For China; Part Ii Commodity Markets; 4 An Analysis Of China's Corn Market; 5 The Changing Pattern Of Rice Production In China; 6 Livestock Consumption: Diverse And Changing Preferences; 7 Feeding The Livestock: Technological Choice, Trade Policy And Efficiency 8 On-farm Grain Stocks And Their Impact On Market Stability In Chinapart Iii Production Efficiency, Statistics And Market Projections; 9 A Micro-empirical Analysis Of Land Fragmentation And Scale Economies In Rural China; 10 Technical Efficiency Of China's Grain Production; 11 The Accuracy Of China's Grain Production Data: Evidence From Two County-level Case Studies; 12 Projecting China's Grain Demand And Supply; 13 The Impact Of China's Growth On Global Grain Markets; Part Iv Trade Policy; 14 China's Comparative Advantage In Agriculture: An Empirical Analysis 15 Analysis Of Chinese And Indonesian Food Policy Options16 Food Security, Farm Income And Trade Policy; References; Index Edited By Y. Yang, W. Tian. Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English