H. Holly Wang

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper measured consumer preferences for select food safety attributes in pork and took food safety risk perceptions into account, finding that Chinese consumers have the highest willingness to pay for a government certification program, followed by third-party certification, a traceability system, and a product-specific information label.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a thorough review of the empirical literature on contract farming in developing countries, motivated out of belief that contract farming spurs transition to modern agriculture, and provide a detailed analysis of the impact of contract farming on farmers.

TL;DR: Woolsey et al. as discussed by the authors showed that dairy demand in urban China has shown remarkable growth in the past decade, driven by mutually reinforcing factors, including rising incomes, government promotion of dairy products, changing urban lifestyles, and the development of more sophisticated marketing channels.

TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of individual farm yield and area yield crop insurance programs is evaluated for a representative Iowa corn farm using numerical optimization of expected utility and simulation techniques, including the nature of the yield index which triggers insurance payouts, alternative restrictions on coverage levels, and alternative pricing structures.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of online channels on food stockpile behavior and found that fresh food e-commerce channels are more likely to be associated with panic stockpile behaviors due to higher likelihood of supply shortages than offline channels with government assistance in logistic management.