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Agriculture and Food Security in China -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- 1. Achieving food security in China -- 2. Agricultural development and policy before and after China's WTO accession -- 3. China's WTO accession -- 4. Rural-urban income disparity and WTO impact on China's agricultural sector -- 5. The impact of WTO accession on China's agricultural sector -- 6. The impact of China's WTO accession on regional economies -- 7. WTO accession and food security in China -- 8. Revisiting the economic costs of food self-sufficiency in China -- 9. Trade reform in the short run -- 10. Trade reform, macroeconomic policy and sectoral labour movement in China -- 11. China's agricultural trade following its WTO accession -- 12. Agricultural trade between China and ASEAN -- 13. The economic impact of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area -- Index.

China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) has had profound consequences for the structure of its economy, and there will many more before the full benefits of an open trading regime will be realised. Agriculture and Food Security in China explains the background to China's WTO accession and links accession to reforms beginning as far back as 1979. The book highlights China's policymakers' decision to move away from protectionism and gain self-sufficiency, and illustrates how China's step away from direct participation in the agricultural sector to indirect regulatory involvement and liberalisation could encourage further economic growth.

Yet not all economic growth is cost-free. Agriculture and Food Security in China explores the short-term impacts of WTO accession as well as the mid and long-term implications of greater market involvement at an economy-wide and regional level. Growing divides between coastal and inland regions—and differences in rural and urban growth—will require a better understanding of the consequences of greater market dependency.

Agriculture and Food Security in China adds to the existing knowledge of China's agricultural growth as well as the impacts and interrelationships between WTO accession and China's participation in other regional free trade agreements.