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 grain 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.

PREFACE
This book draws together research on the impact on its agricultural sector of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), and on the impact on agriculture in China and ASEAN countries of the implementation of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (FTA).

This research was funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and was jointly carried out by researchers in the Crawford School of Economics and Government at The Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, and researchers in the China Center for Economic Research (CCER), Peking University, Beijing. During the project extension period, researchers in the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) joined the research team.

Not all of the research completed under the ACIAR project is published
in the book. However, Chapter 1 by Chunlai Chen and Ron Duncan provides
a summary of all the research carried out in the project and indicates
where the research not included in the book is available. ...

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Agriculture and Food Security in China
What Effect WTO Accession and Regional Trade Arrangements?
Chunlai Chen and Ron Duncan (eds)

ISBN 9780731538171 $36.00 (GST inclusive)
ISBN 9781921313646 (Online)
First published June 2008

Published by ANU E Press and Asia Pacific Press
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200 Australia
Email: anuepress@anu.edu.au

CONTRIBUTORS
Jennifer Chang is an economic analyst with the Australian Treasury, Canberra.

Chunlai Chen is Senior Lecturer, Crawford School of Economics and Government, The Australian National University, Canberra.

Ron Duncan is Professor Emeritus of the Crawford School of Economics and Government, The Australian National University, Canberra.

Jikun Huang is Professor and Director of the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.

Tingsong Jiang is Senior Economist, Centre for International Economics, Canberra.

Feng Lu is Professor, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University, Beijing.

Lucy Rees is a consultant with Bain and Company, Sydney.

Scott Rozelle is Professor, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, California.

Rod Tyers is Professor of Economics, College of Business and Economics, The Australian National University, Canberra.

Xiaolu Wang is Professor, National Economic Research Institute, China Reform Foundation (NERI-China), Beijing.

Jun Yang is Associate Professor, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.

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