Land Resources and Agricultural Exports Nexus

Shandong Agricultural Products Exports: Growth, Problems and Countermeasures

This paper analyses the reasons of the export growth for the Shandong agricultural products which can be attributed to the Shandong agricultural export enterprises’ efforts and Shandong provincial government’s strong supports. Though Shandong agricultural products exports achieved a big success all over the China, there are still some internal problems and external constraints that hinder its f...

Speculation in Agricultural Land

Agricultural land prices in many developed countries rose and then fell dramatically over a relatively short period of time in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the models in the literature that describe the dynamic behaviour of agricultural land prices suggest that these sharp price movements were not completely due to market fundamentals. Many attribute part of this price volatility to ...

Corn ethanol production, food exports, and indirect land use change.

The approximately 100 million tonne per year increase in the use of corn to produce ethanol in the U.S. over the past 10 years, and projections of greater future use, have raised concerns that reduced exports of corn (and other agricultural products) and higher commodity prices would lead to land-use changes and, consequently, negative environmental impacts in other countries. The concerns have...

Agricultural Exports To China: Time For A Reality Check?

Calibration and evaluation of the Nexus Land-Use model

Modelling economic and biophysical drivers of agricultural land-use change. Calibration and evaluation of the Nexus Land-Use model over 1961–2006 F. Souty, B. Dorin, T. Brunelle, P. Dumas, and P. Ciais Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement et le Développement, Nogent-sur-Marne, France Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, UMR8212, Gif-sur-Yvette, France Centr...