China's Milk Scandal, government policy and production decisions of dairy farmers: The case of Greater Beijing

Food Policy

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 390-400

  Jia, Xiangping ^a   Huang, Jikun ^a   Luan, Hao ^a   Rozelle, Scott ^b   Swinnen, Johan ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

China; Dairy production; Food safety; Government policy; Milk Scandal

Indexed keywords

DAIRY FARMING; FOOD POLICY; FOOD PRODUCTION; FOOD SAFETY; FOOD SUPPLY; GOVERNMENT;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84860522734     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2012.03.008     Document Type: Article

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