Food Security and Social Protection for the Rural Poor in China

ISBN-13: 9780367522896 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str.

Ling Zhu

Opis

This book is a collection of evidence-based studies conducted mainly in poor areas of rural China during the recent two decades. Based on individual interviews and sample data analyses, it examines the issues of poverty reduction, gender equality, social protection, elimination of social exclusion, and food security, etc.

Spis treści

List of Figures.  List of Tables.  Preface.  Acknowledgements.  I Transformation of Land Tenure System Chapter 1 Agricultural Reforms during the 1980s  Chapter 2 Land Tenure System in Village Communities  Chapter 3 Gender Inequality in Land Tenure System  II Food Security and the Future of Small Farmers  Chapter 4 Development in Tibetan Agriculture  Chapter 5 Impacts of  Food and Energy Price Hikes  Chapter 6 Food Security and Agricultural Changes in the Course of Urbanization  III Nutrition and Health  Chapter 7 Changes in Rural Basic Health System  Chapter 8 Effects of Rural Medical Financial Assistance in China  Chapter 9 Nutrition and Healthcare for Children from Rural Tibetan Households  IV Poverty Reduction and Social protection  Chapter 10 Labor Intensive Public Works in Poor Areas  Chapter 11 Old Age Security for the Landless Farmers  Chapter 12 Pension Program for the Rural Migrant Workers  Chapter 13 Income Distribution Policy Options amid the Global Financial Crisis  Chapter 14 Addressing Extreme Poverty and Marginality Index

O autorze

Zhu Ling is a research fellow in the Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). She has been engaged in the studies of poverty reduction, social protection and rural development since 1990s.