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    1. Adoption of e-commerce by the agri-food sector in China: the case of Minyu e-commerce company

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Yang, Xiaoshan (author), Chen, Xiaowei (author), and Jia,Fu (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019
    Published:
    China
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 131 Document Number: D11322
    Journal Title:
    International Food and Agribusiness Management Review
    Journal Title Details:
    23(1) : 157-171
    Notes:
    "This teaching case provides an example of adopting e-commerce in the interaction and trading activities between participants in the food sector through a typical agricultural products e-commerce company in China." It can be used to teach graduate/postgraduate students in agricultural business, MBA and executive programmes about the agri-food e-commerce business model.

    2. Time discounting and implications for Chinese farmer responses to an upward trend in precipitation

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Ding, Yihong (author), Balcombe, Kelvin (author), and Robinson, Elizabeth (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2021-03-11
    Published:
    United States: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12350
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Agricultural Economics
    Journal Title Details:
    Vol. 27, Iss. 3
    Notes:
    15 pages, This paper studies Chinese grape growers’ time discounting and its implications for the adoption of technology that can reduce the negative effects of increasing precipitation. Using primary data collected in Xinjiang Province, we undertook a contingent valuation of rain covers that protect fruit from rain and estimated a discounted utility model using these data. Using a hierarchical Bayesian approach, we find that local grape growers discount the future very heavily, with a discount rate of 0.17 per year, which is almost four times higher than the Chinese market interest rate. Farmers also tend to underestimate the benefits of adopting covers, with their purchase decisions appearing to largely depend on their past actual losses rather than future anticipated losses. These findings have broader implications for policies promoting proactive adaptation in response to likely increased rainfall in the region. Targeting farmers who give lower weight to events far off in the future and understanding that many farmers may tend only to make adoption decisions that have strong short-term benefits could improve the efficacy of climate policies that target agricultural technologies.