Dragons with Clay Feet?

Max Spoor is associate professor at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague/Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.Nico Heerink is associate professor at Wageningen University in The Netherlands and visiting professor at Nanjing Agricultural University in Nanjing, China.Futian Qu is professor at the College of Land Management and vice president of the Nanjing Agricultural University in Nanjing, China.

Transition has brought about considerable environmental degradation in the rural countryside, with rural resources such as land, forests, and water suffering at the expense of these transitions. This book takes up the challenge to examine what the impacts have been of these transformations for farmers in China and Vietnam. The authors as a whole investigate rural inequality and a range of farm decision-making processes through a predominantly economic lens. In sum, the twenty-eight authors involved—and it is positive to note that many are from China or Vietnam—through their sixteen chapters, bring to light new, in-depth case studies and analyses on agricultural diversification, production growth, urban encroachment, and the widespread use of agro-chemicals.

• Chapter 1 Transition, Economic Policy and Institutional Reforms in China and Vietnam: The Impact of Sustainable Land UsePart 2 Regional and Sectoral Impact of Economic ReformChapter 3 Regional Inequality in China: Scope, Sources, and Strategies to Reduce ItChapter 4 Fiscal Decentralization, Nonfarm Development, and Spatial Inequality in Rural ChinaChapter 5 The Contribution of Diversification to the Growth and Sustainability of Chinese AgricultureChapter 6 Growth and Regional Inequality in Asia's "New Dragons": China and Vietnam ComparedChapter 7 Land Policy in Vietnam's Agrarian Transition — A Case Study of Namdinh ProvinceChapter 8 The Effects of Economic Policy Reforms on the Economic Environment of Farm Households in China: An Empirical Analysis for Jiangxi ProvincePart 9 Farm Household Decision Making under a Changing Economic and Institutional EnvironmentChapter 10 Farm Household Responses to China's New Rural Income Support Policy: A Village-Level AnalysisChapter 11 Marketing Chains, Transaction Costs, and Resource Management: Efficiency and Trust within Tomato Supply Chains in Nanjing CityChapter 12 Off-Farm Employment, Factor Market Development and Input Use in Farm Production — A Case Study of a Remote Village in Jiangxi Province, ChinaChapter 13 Land Fragmentation and Smallholder Rice Farm's Production Costs in Jiangxi Province, ChinaChapter 14 Intensification of Rice Production and Negative Health Effects for Farmers in the Mekong Delta during Vietnam's TransitionChapter 15 Public Investment, Agricultural Research and Agrochemicals Use in Grain Production in ChinaPart 16 Agriculture and Sustainable Land ManagementChapter 17 Sustainability Issues in East Asian Rice CultivationChapter 18 Agricultural Technology and Nitrogen Pollution in Southeast ChinaChapter 19 China's Farmland Use: A Scenario Analysis of Changes and Trends