Dragons with Clay Feet? Transition, Sustainable Land Use, and Rural Environment in China and Vietnam

by Spoor, Max; Heerink, Nico; Qu, Futian; Chan-Kang, Connie; Zhigang, Cheng; Dung, Nguyen Huu; Fan, Shenggen; Holden, Stein; Kruseman, Gideon; Kuiper, Erno; Kuiper, Marijke; Li, Xiubin; Li, Yousheng; Lu, Changhe; Lu, Hualiang; Roetter, Reimund; Ruben, Ruerd;

• ISBN13: 9780739146569
• ISBN10: 0739146564
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-04
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Dragons with Clay Feet? presents state-of-the-art research on the impact of ongoing and anticipated economic policy and institutional reforms on agricultural development and sustainable rural resource in two East-Asian transition (and developing) economies--China and Vietnam. The contributions to this volume focus on the regional and sectoral impact of transformational policies, farm household decision making under a changing economic and institutional environment, and potential trade-offs between agricultural growth and sustainable land management in the two countries. The analysis of household responses to economic policies and changing institution, and their implications for agricultural production and sustainable resource use in East-Asian transition economies, is a relatively new research field. This collection by a group of Chinese, Vietnamese, and international researchers reflect the rapid progress that is being made in this important research field.

Author Biography

Max Spoor is associate professor at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague/Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Nico Heerink is associate professor at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and visiting professor at Nanjing Agricultural University in Nanjing, China. Futian Qu is professor at the College of Land Management and vice president of the Nanjing Agricultural University in Nanjing, China.

Table of Contents

List of tables	p. vii
List of figures	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Transition, Economic Policy, and Institutional Reforms in China and Vietnam: Impact on Sustainable Land Use	p. 11
Regional and Sectoral Impact of Economic Reforms
Regional Inequality in China: Scope, Sources, and Strategies to Reduce It	p. 49
Fiscal Decentralization, Non-farm Development, and Spatial Inequality in Rural China	p. 71
The Contribution of Diversification to the Growth and Sustainability of Chinese Agriculture	p. 83
Growth and Regional Inequality in Asia's "New Dragons": China and Vietnam Compared	p. 93
Land Policy in Vietnam's Agrarian Transition: A Case Study of Namdinh Province	p. 109
The Effects of Economic Policy Reforms on the Economic Environment of Farm Households in China: An Empirical Analysis for Jiangxi Province	p. 129
Farm Household Decision-Making under a Changing Economic and Institutional Environment
Farm Household Responses to China's New Rural Income Support Policy: A Village-Level Analysis	p. 147
Marketing Chains, Transaction Costs, and Resource Management: Efficiency and Trust within Tomato Supply Chains in Nanjing City	p. 161
Off-farm Employment, Factor Market Development, and Input Use in Farm Production: A Case Study of a Remote Village in Jiangxi Province, China	p. 181
Land Fragmentation and Smallholder Rice Farm's Production Costs in Jiangxi Province, China	p. 211
Intensification of Rice Production and Negative Health Effects for Farmers in the Mekong Delta during Vietnam's Transition	p. 229
Public Investment, Agricultural Research, and Agro-chemicals Use in Grain Production in China	p. 251
Agriculture and Sustainable Land Management
Sustainability Issues in East Asian Rice Cultivation	p. 265
Agricultural Technology and Nitrogen Pollution in Southeast China	p. 293
China's Farmland Use: A Scenario Analysis of Changes and Trends	p. 309
Appendix	p. 327
Index	p. 333
About the Contributors	p. 339
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