| DOI: | 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.10.002
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| 论文题名: | Agricultural outsourcing: A two-headed coin? |
| 作者: | Azadi H.; Houshyar E.; Zarafshani K.; Hosseininia G.; Witlox F.
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| 刊名: | Global and Planetary Change
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| ISSN: | 0921-8383
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| 出版年: | 2013
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| 卷: | 100 | | 起始页码: | 20
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| 结束页码: | 27
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 英文关键词: | Agricultural development
; Agricultural investment
; Land deal
; Land grab
; Neo-colonialism
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| Scopus关键词: | Agricultural development
; Economic strength
; Host countries
; Land deal
; Land grab
; Neo-colonialism
; Outsourcers
; Win-win
; Agriculture
; Outsourcing
; agricultural development
; agricultural economics
; agricultural market
; colonialism
; economic impact
; risk assessment
; China
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| 英文摘要: | Since two decades ago, when China's economic strength has made this most populated country as a leading global agricultural outsourcer, there have increasingly been hot debates on whether such outsourcing is destructive or constructive, especially for host countries. Some critics pessimistically call it 'land grabs' or 'neo-colonialism' that should be prevented while others optimistically appreciate it as a development opportunity that should be promoted. The first group interprets the outsourcing as a win-loss process while the second considers it as a win-win deal. This study tries to show the possible gains and losses of both outsourcers and host countries. Accordingly, this paper introduces four different situations; i.e. loss-loss; win-loss; loss-win; and win-win. The first situation is understood as a 'red-deal' which should urgently be stopped. The second and third situations are called 'yellow-deal' which should be adjusted to come up with the last situation which we call 'green-deal' that addresses the benefits of both outsourcers and outsourcees. The paper concludes that in order to understand the main impacts of such deals, we still need to create more evidence for each situation in the framework of a series of risk assessment studies on the bases of both "country-case" and "crop-case". © 2012 Elsevier B.V. |
| URL: | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84868329035&doi=10.1016%2fj.gloplacha.2012.10.002&partnerID=40&md5=a0d521caa6b37ab0755a0bc26f8b5369
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| 资源类型: | 期刊论文
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/11289
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| Appears in Collections: | 全球变化的国际研究计划
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作者单位: | Department of Geography, Ghent University, Belgium
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Azadi H.,Houshyar E.,Zarafshani K.,et al. Agricultural outsourcing: A two-headed coin?[J]. Global and Planetary Change,2013-01-01,100.
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