IFPRI CGIAR
Subscribe

Back

Who we are

With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

researcher spotlight

Liangzhi You

Liangzhi You is a Senior Research Fellow and theme leader in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit, based in Washington, DC. His research focuses on climate resilience, spatial data and analytics, agroecosystems, and agricultural science policy. Gridded crop production data of the world (SPAM) and the agricultural technology evaluation model (DREAM) are among his research contributions. 

Where we work

Back

Where we work

IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

IFPRI Regional Programs

IFPRI Country Programs

Research by country and region

Subscribe
The Earth Planet

China

countries and regions

Publications

Resource thumbnail

Journal Article

A framework for cost-effectiveness analysis of greenhouse gas mitigation measures in dairy industry with an application to dairy farms in China

2024Li, Saiwei; Zhang, Mingxue; Hou, Lingling; Gong, Binlei; Chen, Kevin Z.
Details

A framework for cost-effectiveness analysis of greenhouse gas mitigation measures in dairy industry with an application to dairy farms in China

Year published

2024

Authors

Li, Saiwei; Zhang, Mingxue; Hou, Lingling; Gong, Binlei; Chen, Kevin Z.

Citation

Li, Saiwei; Zhang, Mingxue; Hou, Lingling; Gong, Binlei; and Chen, Kevin. 2024. A framework for cost-effectiveness analysis of greenhouse gas mitigation measures in dairy industry with an application to dairy farms in China. Journal of Environmental Management 370(November 2024): 122521. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.122521

Country/Region

China

Keywords

Asia; South-eastern Asia; Eastern Asia; Cost Analysis; Dairy Farms; Dairy Industry; Frameworks; Greenhouse Gases

Language

English

Access/Licence

Limited Access

Links

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.122521 Source record

Project

Low-Emission Food Systems

Record type

Journal Article

Resource thumbnail

Journal Article

Subjective well-being, willingness to accept COVID policies, and vulnerability: Evidence from China

2024Tian, Junyan; Ward, Patrick S.
Details

Subjective well-being, willingness to accept COVID policies, and vulnerability: Evidence from China

Year published

2024

Authors

Tian, Junyan; Ward, Patrick S.

Citation

Tian, Junyan; and Ward, Patrick S. 2024. Subjective well-being, willingness to accept COVID policies, and vulnerability: Evidence from China. Chinese Economy 57(6): 449-471. https://doi.org/10.1080/10971475.2024.2340930

Country/Region

China

Keywords

Asia; Eastern Asia; Covid-19; Livelihoods; Vulnerability; Welfare

Language

English

Access/Licence

Limited Access

Links

https://doi.org/10.1080/10971475.2024.2340930 Source record

Record type

Journal Article

Resource thumbnail

Journal Article

Emerging outsource agricultural services enable farmer adaptation in agrifood value chains: A product cycle perspective

2024Reardon, Thomas; Awokuse, Titus; Belton, Ben; Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda O.; Minten, Bart; Nguyen, Genevieve; Qanti, Sara; Swinnen, Johan; Vos, Rob; Zilberman, David
Details

Emerging outsource agricultural services enable farmer adaptation in agrifood value chains: A product cycle perspective

Outsource agricultural service enterprises emerged a century ago in high-income countries and in the past several decades in developing regions. We contribute by analyzing and illustrating the emergence of these services from the perspective of phases of the Product Cycle. These services help farmers adapt to international and domestic agrifood value chains: (1) in the commoditization phase, e.g., with rice combine harvesting services in China and Myanmar for domestic and export markets; (2) in the early product differentiation phase into quality traits, e.g., with horticultural services to Ethiopian and Indonesian farmers for urban wholesale markets; (3) in the advanced product differentiation phase into environmental traits, e.g., with A-Z services to help French farmers grow eco-labeled vegetables for supermarkets. These services addressed farmers’ shortfalls in information, skills, labor, and equipment. The services are supplied by medium/large farmers with excess capacity say of a combine; by wholesalers who want to reduce search costs and risks; by input “agro-dealers”; and by agribusinesses servicing their outgrowers. In new cases shown in France, outsource firms partner with farm input companies such as Bayer or with robot/drone companies. Governments have – and can do much more to – support the emergence of these services such as in developing regions today through: (1) promotion of a business ecosystem, based on policies of investment in hard and soft infrastructure, favoring the coadaptation of these firms with farmers’ needs; (2) policies facilitating access, such as through import liberalization, of equipment and seeds and chemicals.

Year published

2024

Authors

Reardon, Thomas; Awokuse, Titus; Belton, Ben; Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda O.; Minten, Bart; Nguyen, Genevieve; Qanti, Sara; Swinnen, Johan; Vos, Rob; Zilberman, David

Citation

Reardon, Thomas; Awokuse, Titus; Belton, Ben; Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda O.; Minten, Bart; Nguyen, Genevieve; et al. 2024. Emerging outsource agricultural services enable farmer adaptation in agrifood value chains: A product cycle perspective. Food Policy 127(August 2024): 102711. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102711

Country/Region

China; Myanmar; Ethiopia; France; Indonesia

Keywords

Asia; Southern Asia; Africa; Eastern Africa; Europe; Eastern Asia; South-eastern Asia; Western Europe; Adaptation; Value Chains; Agrifood Systems; Farmers; Rice; Vegetables

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102711 Source record

Project

Rethinking Food Markets

Record type

Journal Article

Datasets

Dataset

China Wheat Producer Survey

2019International Food Policy Research Institute
Details

China Wheat Producer Survey

China wheat wholesaler survey is the study of the wholesalers in the wheat value chain in the province of Henan. These data allow quantifying the extent of food loss in the wholesaler level using consistent approaches that are comparable across commodities and regions. They also enable characterizing the nature of food loss, specifically the production stages and the particular processes at which loss is incurred.

Year published

2019

Authors

International Food Policy Research Institute

Citation

International Food Policy Research Institute. 2019. China Wheat Producer Survey. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TP4IBX. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.

Country/Region

China

Keywords

Asia; Eastern Asia; Value Chains; Harvesting Losses; Losses; Processing Losses; Marketing; Yield Losses; Wholesale Marketing; Wheat; Crop Losses; Postharvest Losses

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/tp4ibx Source record

Project

Policies, Institutions, and Markets

Record type

Dataset

Dataset

China Wheat Middlemen Survey

2019International Food Policy Research Institute
Details

China Wheat Middlemen Survey

China wheat middlemen survey is the study of Chinese middlemen in the wheat value chain in the province of Hena. These data allow us to quantify the extent of food loss in the middlemen level using consistent approaches that are comparable across commodities and regions. They also enable us to characterize the nature of food loss, specifically the production stages and the particular processes at which loss is incurred.

Year published

2019

Authors

International Food Policy Research Institute

Citation

International Food Policy Research Institute. 2019. China Wheat Middlemen Survey. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JTUFRX. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.

Country/Region

China

Keywords

Asia; Eastern Asia; Value Chains; Harvesting Losses; Losses; Processing Losses; Marketing; Yield Losses; Wheat; Crop Losses; Postharvest Losses

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/jtufrx Source record

Project

Policies, Institutions, and Markets

Record type

Dataset

Dataset

China Wheat Wholesaler Survey

2019International Food Policy Research Institute
Details

China Wheat Wholesaler Survey

China Wheat Producer Survey is the study of the producers in the wheat value chain in the province of Henan. These data allow quantifying the extent of food loss in the producer level using consistent approaches that are comparable across commodities and regions. They also enable characterizing the nature of food loss, specifically the production stages and the particular processes at which loss is incurred.

Year published

2019

Authors

International Food Policy Research Institute

Citation

International Food Policy Research Institute. 2019. China Wheat Wholesaler Survey. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SBGYHO. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.

Country/Region

China

Keywords

Asia; Eastern Asia; Value Chains; Harvesting Losses; Losses; Processing Losses; Marketing; Yield Losses; Wheat; Crop Losses; Postharvest Losses

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/sbgyho Source record

Project

Policies, Institutions, and Markets

Record type

Dataset

Blogs

Global fertilizer trade 2021-2023: What happened after war-related price spikes
IFPRI Blog
 | 
April 05, 2024

Global fertilizer trade 2021-2023: What happened after war-related price spikes

By Charlotte Hebebrand and Joseph Glauber

Impacts of shifting market flows.

Policy seminar: Reforming agricultural policies to sustainably transform food systems
IFPRI Blog
 | 
March 27, 2024

Policy seminar: Reforming agricultural policies to sustainably transform food systems

By Swati Malhotra

Country experiences show the way forward.

Impacts of Red Sea shipping disruptions on global food security
IFPRI Blog
 | 
January 17, 2024

Impacts of Red Sea shipping disruptions on global food security

By Joseph Glauber and Abdullah Mamun

Potential fallout from Houthi attacks.

View all Blogs

Events

Trade disruptions and their impacts on agricultural markets: Looking back and ahead
IFPRI Policy Seminar

 | 

January 13, 2025, 9:30 – 11:00 am

Trade disruptions and their impacts on agricultural markets: Looking back and ahead

Also streaming on Please type your questions into the chat box with name, affiliation, and country. The event video, presenter slides, and podcast will be available in the days following the event. Global agricultural markets have been in a constant state of uproar over the past 5 years. Trade wars between major trading nations such as […]

The 16th China Agricultural Economic Review (CAER) - IFPRI Annual Conference
IFPRI at External Event

 | 

October 18 to 20, 2024

The 16th China Agricultural Economic Review (CAER) – IFPRI Annual Conference

The China Agricultural Economic Review (CAER) and IFPRI are delighted to announce the Sixteenth CAER-IFPRI Annual Conference, co-organized with Hunan Agricultural University (HUNAU). The theme of 2024 conference is Bridging Sustainability: Integrating Green Finance for Agricultural and Rural Development. Internationally and nationally renowned scholars have been invited to present and discuss their insights at the […]

China Agricultural Sector Development Report 2024 and IFPRI 2024 Global Food Policy Report Launch
Series/Special Event

 | 

June 7, 2024, 9:00 – 11:30 am

China Agricultural Sector Development Report 2024 and IFPRI 2024 Global Food Policy Report Launch

Hybrid Event: June 7, 2024 – 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM +08. The China Agricultural Sector Development Report 2024 (CASDR) and IFPRI 2024 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) hybrid launch event will feature keynote speakers as well as presentations on the overview of the GFPR’s and CASDR’s findings.

View all Events

News

May 22, 2023 | In the News

IFPRI: Strengthening food resilience in response to crises (Beijing News) 

“Food resilience will be a key factor in overcoming various crises,” writes Beijing News (China) in a piece on the launch of the 2023 Global Food Policy Report.   Johan Swinnen, director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) said that crises, conflicts, and volatility will no longer be the exception but may become […]

January 13, 2023 | In the News

Global food prices remain high, food security remains uncertain this year (Epoch Times) 

In the new year, the impact of epidemics, wars, droughts, inflation, etc. will continue, and global food security will still face many variables, writes Epoch Times (China) in a report on food prices. According to David Laborde, a senior fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, 2022 was one of the worst years for […]

September 02, 2022 | In the News

Joseph Glauber on China’s agriculture (CGTN America) 

CGTN (China) produced a video on YouTube where reporter Gerald Tan talks to senior research fellow Joseph Glauber about China’s agriculture. Glauber said, “China is the largest importer of agricultural products. Not only did imports from the US go up, but also Brazil, European Union, and other suppliers. China has been a big engine for […]

View all News

Projects

Agricultural Transformation and Policy: What are the policy priorities?

Agricultural Transformation and Policy: What are the policy priorities?

Achieving agricultural transformation in a country – the transformation of an agri-food system from a high prevalence of subsistence farming to high productivity, so that……

Food Security Portal

Food Security Portal

Volatile food prices, climate-change-driven shocks, conflict, economic downturns, and high population growth continue to raise serious concerns about food security and nutrition in many parts……