1、8600 英文单词， 4.7 万英文字符 ， 中文 1.4 万字 文献出处： Sanders R. A market road to sustainable agriculture? Ecological agriculture, green food and organic agriculture in ChinaJ. Development and Change, 2006, 37(1): 201-226. A Market Road to Sustainable Agriculture? Ecological Agriculture, Green Food and Organic Agr
2、iculture in China Richard Sanders ABSTRACT To the extent that free markets show little concern for the existence of externalities, they are unlikely to produce optimum outcomes with regard to the protection and enhancement of the natural environment. Accordingly, the increasing emphasis on markets t
3、o deliver development in China under Deng Xiaoping and his successors has the capacity to threaten the long-term environmental sustainability of that development. While there are good rea- sons to remain sceptical about the ability of market mechanisms to promote sustainable rural development in man
4、y respects, market reforms in China and the opening of the country to the outside world have nevertheless provided opportunities for farmers to engage in ecologically sensitive agriculture in the form of green food and organic farming. Given that these forms of agricul- ture reduce farmers use of ch
5、emicals compared to conventional farming chemicals which are costly to produce and environmentally degrading to use they contribute to ensuring a more environmentally sustainable future for Chinese farming, post-WTO entry, whilst providing opportunities for farmers to enrich themselves at the same t
6、ime: a winwin state of affairs. This will remain the case, however, only so long as the state is prepared to create and reinforce appropriate institutional arrangements. INTRODUCTION This contribution will, from an institutional perspective, examine recent initiatives in the Chinese countryside to promote the cause of sustainable rural development. Since the early 1980s, study after study by both Chinese and Western scholars has emphasized the degraded and polluted nature of the Ch
