Reducing urban-rural gaps in child health and nutrition is one of the most difficult challenges faced by many countries.

This paper examines the short-term and mid-term impact of COVID-19 restrictions on SMEs, based on two waves of phone interviews with a previously surveyed large SME sample in China.

Initial impacts & resilience of China's food systems during the pandemic and the government's responses & long-term efforts to promote resilience.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound global impact on governments, healthcare systems, economies, and populations around the world.

The outbreak and wide spread of COVID-19 poses a new threat to global food security.

Explores key emerging issues facing developing-country agriculture today, from rapid urbanization to rural transformation to climate change

Agricultural Development: New Perspectives in a Changing World is the first comprehensive exploration of key emerging issues facing developing-country agriculture today, from rapid urbanization to rural transformation to climate change.

The world has been changing rapidly, and major issues surrounding agriculture have evolved as well. In fact, over the last several decades major shifts have occurred in the thinking on and practice of agricultural development.

In this section, we follow Chapter 5 of Hayami and Ruttan (1985) to overview long-term changes experienced by East Asian countries.

New analysis on the impact of China’s WTO accession on the country’s structural transformation.

This note provides an overview of investment trends in global agricultural research to the year 2016, which revises ASTI’s prior global update (Beintema et al. 2012).

The U.S. complaint about Chinese tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) on certain grain products helps illustrate several key issues in U.S. - China trade relations and the effectiveness of WTO disputes.