Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations and Glossary Notes on the Contributors Agricultural Reform: An Unfinished Long March; Yongzheng Yang & Weiming Tian PART I: SETTING THE SCENE Issues and Challenges in Agricultural Reform; Li Ding A Changing Global Food Market: Implications for China; Ron Duncan PART II: COMMODITY MARKETS An Analysis of China's Corn Market; Xiangyong Tan & Xian Xin The Changing Pattern of Rice Production in China; Weiming Tian Livestock Consumptions; Xiurong He & Weiming Tian Feeding the Livestock; Fu Qin & Weiming Tian On-Farm Grain Stocks in China and their Impact on Market Stability; Bingsheng Ke PART III: PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY, STATISTICS AND MARKET PROJECTIONS Technical Efficiency of China's Grain Production; Weiming Tian Land Fragmentation and Scales Economies in Rural China; Guanghua Wan & Enjiang Cheng The Accuracy of China's Grain Production Data; Ziping Wu & Zhifang Wang A Projection of China's Grain Demand and Supply: 1980-2010; Xiji An Impact of China's Growth on Global Grain Markets; George Reeves & David Vincent PART IV: TRADE POLICY Domestic Resource Cost of China's Agricultural Sectors; Xiaoguang Zhang Analysis of Chinese and Indonesian Food Policy Options; Ray Trewin Food Security, Farm Income and Trade Policy in China; Yongzheng Yang & Yiping Huang Index

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BINGSHENG KE Director-General, Research Center for the Rural Economy RON DUNCAN Professor and Executive Director, The Australian National University ENJIANG CHENG Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Adelaide FU QIN Associate Professor, China Agricultural University GUANGHUA WAN Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney LI DING Section Chief, Division of Policy and Legislation, Ministry of Agriculture GEORGE REEVES Principal Economist, Centre for International Economics, Canberra RAY TREWIN Senior Research Fellow, The Australian National University DAVID VINCENT Chief Economist, Centre for International Economics, Canberra XIAN XIN PhD Scholar, China Agricultural University XIANGYONG TAN Professor, China Agricultural University XIAOGUANG ZHANG Lecturer, University of Melbourne XIJI AN Professor, China Agricultural University XIURONG HE Professor, China Agricultural University YIPING HUANG Senior Lecturer, The Australian National University ZHIFANG WANG Professor, China Agricultural University ZIPING WU Lecturer, Queen's University of Belfast