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  • News
    Food Safety in China: Op-ed by IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan
    As news of the latest food safety scandal to hit China—rice tainted with the carcinogenic heavy metal cadmium—further undermines consumer trust in the country’s food system, IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan asks, in an op-ed in the China Daily ...
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    30th Anniversary of the China-CGIAR partnership
    This week, China and CGIAR are celebrating the 30th anniversary of their partnership. To celebrate IFPRI’s collaboration with China, the Institute has compiled the Highlights of IFPRI’s partnerships and impacts in China: Reducing Hunger and ...
  • News
    VC4D: Value Chain for Development
    We live in a fast changing world with fast changing trends: urbanization, globalization, industrialization, and more, all of which have a profound impact on the way food moves from field to fork along the agricultural value chain. Understanding ...
  • News
    The Price of Party Going
    What do droughts, food price spikes, and weddings have in common? They all have the potential to drive poor people further into poverty. A new IFPRI discussion paper reveals that frequent socializing is an unexpected reason why the health of ...
  • News
    The Impact of Rural-Urban Migration on Children Left Behind
    China’s cities are attracting rural residents in droves. Since the 1990s, the number of Chinese migrating to urban centers from the countryside to find jobs has spiked. According to estimates, some 79 million rural residents migrated to cities in ...
  • News
    Marriage and Rising Housing Prices in China
    As a result of the preference for males, China’s one-child policy has significantly impacted the country’s sex ratio. The ratio of males to females is about 6 to 5. The disparity has increased competition in the marriage market. The effect of ...
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    Understanding China’s Overseas Economic Zones
    Chinese expansion and foreign investment in developing countries has garnered great attention due to China’s growing sphere of influence in the developing world. The lack of transparency and poor data on Chinese overseas investments and China’s ...
  • Event
    Is China Entering a High Food Price Era?
    3rd CAER-IFPRI Annual International Conference Background China Agricultural Economic Review (CAER) is delighted to announce its third annual conference, which is being organized by the CAER editorial office and International Food Policy ...
  • News
    China beyond the Turning Point
    China’s rapid economic growth has been sustained by a seemingly infinite supply of labor streaming from rural to urban areas. Economists and policymakers now debate whether China has passed the Lewis turning point, a shift from labor surplus to ...
  • News
    Effective and efficient water allocation in the Yellow River Basin
    A set of seven policy notes (see policy briefs under outputs) recently released by the International Food Policy Research Institute and its collaborators, including the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Center for Chinese ...
  • News
    Cluster-based industrialization in China
    Despite the significant role of “clustering” in China’s rapid industrialization, the survival of millions of small manufacturers that follow this business model is threatened by rising wages and a stronger yen, according to a recent article in ...
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    Seeking Status in Rural China
    China has long been in the throes of demographic, economic and social change, with massive rural-to-urban migration, a growing middle class, and an emerging culture of entrepreneurship. In China’s rural communities, it is increasingly common to ...
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    Agricultural Risk and Food Security (ARFS)
    Organized by Agricultural Information Institute of CAAS, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and UK Department for International Development (DFID) Conference website For three days in June, high level Chinese policymakers and ...
  • News
    A Benevolent Dragon in Africa?
    In her book The Dragon' Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa, author Deborah Bräutigam paints an alternative picture of China's involvement in Africa's development that stands in sharp contrast to the commonly-held Western belief that such ...
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    The Dragon’s Gift: the Real Story of China in Africa
    Is China a rogue donor? Media reports about huge aid packages, land-grabbing, support for pariah regimes, regiments of Chinese labor, and the ruthless exploitation of workers and natural resources in some of the poorest countries in the world ...
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    Reducing water-based poverty in the Yellow River Basin
    Water resources continue to be a major constraint for China’s Yellow River Basin, a region enjoying rapid economic growth. Researchers have documented a link between access to water for irrigation and economic well-being: non-irrigated villages ...
  • Media Briefing
    Experts meet to identify solutions to problems affecting the Yellow River Basin
    Yellow River Basin region enjoys high economic growth, but faces many environmental challenges and high poverty rates in parts of the basin.
  • Event
    Small Business Industrial Clusters in China and Italy
    Conference website The Faculty of Economics of the Gabriele D’Annunzio University (Chieti and Pescara, Italy) invites submissions of papers and extended abstracts for a conference on small-and-medium business clusters in developing and ...
  • Resource
    Chinese Science Bulletin
    Online access 1997+ available to IFPRI staff only (CGIAR Consortium).
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    Chinese Journal of Agricultural Biotechnology
    Online access from 2007+ available to IFPRI staff only (CGIAR Consortium).
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    China & World Economy
    Available to IFPRI staff only
  • Press Release
    Rising Food Prices Threaten World's Poor People
    Beijing—Income growth, climate change, high energy prices, globalization, and urbanization are all converging to transform food production, markets, and consumption, according to a new report by the International Food Policy Research Institute ...
  • Press Release
    International Conference Convened to Take Action for the World's Poor and Hungry People
    BEIJING—More than 400 policymakers and experts from around the world are gathering in Beijing today for the three-day conference, Taking Action for the World’s Poor and Hungry People, to assess progress achieved in reducing global poverty ...
  • News
    Agricultural and Economic Development Strategies and the Transformation of China and India
     by Joachim von Braun, Ashok Gulati, and Shenggen FanWhat can the world learn from the process of economic reform in China and India? Does the sequencing of reforms matter? What lessons do the experiences of in these countries offer for ...