The Rural Education Action Program is part of the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions.
Food Security
Scholarly Publications
Are China's Farms Growing?
January 2016
China's agricultural sector faces challenges because most farms are still small scale. China's policy is to encourage the consolidation of farms and promote farms that are larger in scale.
News
Scott Rozelle on How Agriculture Vitalized China's Economy
April 2013
Over the last thirty years, China’s rural income per capita has risen an astounding 20 times.
Old Events
The Real China Threat: Why Might We Need to Worry About a Stagnating China?
May 22, 2012
Stanford Center for International Development Twelfth Annual Huang Lian Memorial LectureThe Real China Threat: Why Might We Need to Worry About a Stagnating China?
China and Africa: Are there Lessons for Development?
April 17, 2013
The lost decades for China in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s look remarkably like the lost decades of Africa in the 1980s and 1990s.