Farmer's Professional Associations in Rural China: State Dominated or New State-Society Partnerships?

 by Linxiu Zhang and Jikun Huang and Scott Rozelle

Presentation to International Workshop "Small Farmer Organizations to get access to dynamic markets in Developing Countries" Montpellier April 26-27, 2007

The main goal of our paper is to report on the results of a survey designed to provide a picture of the current status of FPAs in China. In the report we will have three objectives. First, we try to establish a baseline of the size of the FPA movement in China, its rate of growth and the scope of their activities. Second, we identify when, where and what FPAs are emerging, examining our data by province, by income category and by several other indicators. Finally, we seek to find what factors are inducing the emergence of FPAs.

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