China Agricultural Economic Review (CAER)

CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue

Agriculture, the Rural Economy and China’s Growth in the 21^st Century: Celebrating the 10^th Anniversary of AAEA China Section

Date for Full Paper Submission: May 1 to June 15, 2020

Special Issue Guest Editors:

Scott Rozelle, Stanford University

Yuqing Zheng, University of Kentucky

Chengfang Liu, Peking University

The year of 2020 marks the 10^th anniversary of the China Section at the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association! As China’s premier journal in agricultural economics, China Agricultural Economic Review (CAER, SSCI indexed with an impact factor > 1) is inviting contributions to a Special Issue on “Agriculture, the Rural Economy and China’s Growth in the 21^st Century: Celebrating the 10^th Anniversary of the AAEA's China Section.”

Proposed themes for the Special Issue include:

·         A decade of the AAEA China Section: Past, Present and Future;

·         Agribusiness, e-commerce, food safety and the supply chain；

·         Poverty reduction and changing rural livelihoods；

·         Human capital (education, health, nutrition, training, etc.): past successes; future challenges；

·         Climate change and the environment；

·         Input markets (land, labor, capital, etc.): the path of evolution and the role of reforms；

·         Output markets, subsidies, trade and food security；

·         Public infrastructure investments and the rural economy’s growth and transition；

·         Technological progress, information and communication technology (ICT), R&D investment and agricultural productivity；and

·         Research on the recent COVID-19 outbreak and its impact on the rural economy: empirical findings and policy messages.

For those interested in participating, we will follow the following procedure:

·         Please submit your full paper between May 1 and June 15, 2020, using our online submission system at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/caer. Please follow the journal submission guidelines. In your cover letter, you must indicate that the submission is for this Special Issue.

·         Papers will undergo a standard (but expedited) review process. You will receive an initial editorial decision of rejection or accept/revise/resubmit with detailed comments within one month. In the cases that are positive, revised drafts will be due by August 15, 2020.

·         We aim to publish the special issue in the first half of 2021.

Please forward this message to other scholars in the field. Welcome all!!!

Scott Rozelle (rozelle@stanford.edu), Yuqing Zheng (yuqing.zheng@uky.edu) and Chengfang Liu (cfliu.ccap@pku.edu.cn) (Guest Editors)

&

Xian Xin (Chief Editor), Baozhong Su (Editorial Coordinator).

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