Harvest Loss in China
This open access book examines food security in China with a specific focus on rice harvesting. As the most populous agricultural developing country, China’s food security is closely related to the world’s food security. An urgent issue internationally, data show that every year, about one-third of...
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| author | Qu, Xue Kojima, Daizo Wu, Laping Ando, Mitsuyoshi |
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| description | This open access book examines food security in China with a specific focus on rice harvesting. As the most populous agricultural developing country, China’s food security is closely related to the world’s food security. An urgent issue internationally, data show that every year, about one-third of food is lost and wasted before it even reaches the market, mainly in less developed countries. To this end, halving the amount of food loss and waste is one of the Sustainable Development Goals. In 2021, the Chinese government issued the Anti-Food Waste Law of the People’s Republic of China, placing a high priority on food loss reduction. Rice, one of the major staple foods, has also received a higher priority in government policy, as it has been deemed required to be “absolutely safe”. In China, rice farmers rely heavily on outsourcing services to complete harvesting, which has led to the rapid development of mechanical harvesting. This book shows that the essence of outsourcing services is a principal–agent relationship in which there is a potential moral hazard, which is considered detrimental to harvest losses. The book analyses the effect of the moral hazard in harvest outsourcing services on rice harvest losses from this principal–agent theoretical perspective. Using the latest nationwide farmer survey, it empirically demonstrates the moral hazard in agricultural outsourcing services and its negative impact on harvest losses, providing suggestions for food loss reduction in China and similar developing countries where agricultural outsourcing services are developing rapidly. Relevant to social science researchers working in areas of food security in connection with the SDGs, and to scholars studying development in China more generally, this is a timely contribution confronting possible means of food loss reduction, in the developing world particularly, in the East, and globally. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1500672025-07-21T15:43:55Z Harvest Loss in China Qu, Xue Kojima, Daizo Wu, Laping Ando, Mitsuyoshi Harvest outsourcing Moral Hazard Food Security Rice Farming China Food Production Agricultural Economics and Ethics Sustainable Development Goals SDG2 Mechanical Harvesting Rice Yields in China thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNF Environmental management::RNFF Food security and supply thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophy thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNU Sustainability thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KJ Business and Management::KJM Management and management techniques thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general::GPQ Decision theory: general::GPQD Risk assessment thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming::TVB Agricultural science thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNA Agribusiness and primary industries thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNF Environmental management::RNFF Food security and supply thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophy thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNU Sustainability thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KJ Business and Management::KJM Management and management techniques thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general::GPQ Decision theory: general::GPQD Risk assessment thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming::TVB Agricultural science thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNA Agribusiness and primary industries This open access book examines food security in China with a specific focus on rice harvesting. As the most populous agricultural developing country, China’s food security is closely related to the world’s food security. An urgent issue internationally, data show that every year, about one-third of food is lost and wasted before it even reaches the market, mainly in less developed countries. To this end, halving the amount of food loss and waste is one of the Sustainable Development Goals. In 2021, the Chinese government issued the Anti-Food Waste Law of the People’s Republic of China, placing a high priority on food loss reduction. Rice, one of the major staple foods, has also received a higher priority in government policy, as it has been deemed required to be “absolutely safe”. In China, rice farmers rely heavily on outsourcing services to complete harvesting, which has led to the rapid development of mechanical harvesting. This book shows that the essence of outsourcing services is a principal–agent relationship in which there is a potential moral hazard, which is considered detrimental to harvest losses. The book analyses the effect of the moral hazard in harvest outsourcing services on rice harvest losses from this principal–agent theoretical perspective. Using the latest nationwide farmer survey, it empirically demonstrates the moral hazard in agricultural outsourcing services and its negative impact on harvest losses, providing suggestions for food loss reduction in China and similar developing countries where agricultural outsourcing services are developing rapidly. Relevant to social science researchers working in areas of food security in connection with the SDGs, and to scholars studying development in China more generally, this is a timely contribution confronting possible means of food loss reduction, in the developing world particularly, in the East, and globally. 2025-01-21T04:16:16Z 2025-01-21T04:16:16Z 2025-01-13T13:46:42Z 2025 book ONIX_20250113_9789819791569_59 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/97051 9789819791569 9789819791552 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/150067 eng The University of Tokyo Studies on Asia open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/97051/1/9789819791569.pdf Springer Nature Springer Nature Singapore 10.1007/978-981-97-9156-9 10.1007/978-981-97-9156-9 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a d0ffa379-624d-4813-8445-226cdba46434 feaf584a-8325-48f8-8462-e925bd61d9b7 9789819791569 9789819791552 Springer Nature Singapore 176 Singapore [...] University of Tokyo 東京大学憲 10.13039/501100004721 open access |
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