The effects of agricultural market liberalization and commercialization on household food security in rural China

Fan, Linlin

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Title

The effects of agricultural market liberalization and commercialization on household food security in rural China

Author(s)

Fan, Linlin

Issue Date

2012-09-18T21:14:21Z

Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)

• Baylis, Kathy
• Nogueira, Lia
• Winter-Nelson, Alex E.

Department of Study

Agr & Consumer Economics

Discipline

Agr & Consumer Economics

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

M.S.

Degree Level

Thesis

Keyword(s)

• commercialization
• market liberalization
• agriculture
• food security
• China

Abstract

China underwent tremendous agricultural market reforms in the 1990s prior to its accession to the WTO, drastically decreasing domestic market distortions. I ask whether these reforms have led to agricultural commercialization and have improved the welfare of rural Chinese households measured by household average share of calories from non-staples. I identify the effect of local market liberalization by calculating the degree to which local markets reflect world prices. I find that farmers have commercialized in response to market liberalization and that particularly for food insecure households, commercialization has increased household nutrition. The commercialization of field crops and horticulture increases nutrition while the commercialization of livestock does not.

Graduation Semester

2012-08

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