03498nam 22005293 450 991091964710332120250101084506.097898197915699819791561(MiAaPQ)EBC31862774(Au-PeEL)EBL31862774(CKB)37099103100041(NjHacI)9937099103100041(EXLCZ)993709910310004120250101d2025 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHarvest Loss in China Rice, Mechanization, and the Moral Hazard of Outsourcing1st ed.Singapore :Springer,2025.©2025.1 online resource (185 pages)The University of Tokyo Studies on Asia Series9789819791552 9819791553 Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Literature Review -- Chapter 3. Data Collection and Descriptive Statistics.This open access book examines food security in China with a specific focus on rice harvesting. As the most populous agricultural developing country, Chinas food security is closely related to the worlds food security. An urgent issue internationally, data show that every year, about one-third of food is lost and wasted before it even reaches the market, mainly in less developed countries. To this end, halving the amount of food loss and waste is one of the Sustainable Development Goals. In 2021, the Chinese government issued the Anti-Food Waste Law of the Peoples Republic of China, placing a high priority on food loss reduction. Rice, one of the major staple foods, has also received a higher priority in government policy, as it has been deemed required to be absolutely safe. In China, rice farmers rely heavily on outsourcing services to complete harvesting, which has led to the rapid development of mechanical harvesting. This book shows that the essence of outsourcing services is a principalagent relationship in which there is a potential moral hazard, which is considered detrimental to harvest losses. The book analyses the effect of the moral hazard in harvest outsourcing services on rice harvest losses from this principalagent theoretical perspective. Using the latest nationwide farmer survey, it empirically demonstrates the moral hazard in agricultural outsourcing services and its negative impact on harvest losses, providing suggestions for food loss reduction in China and similar developing countries where agricultural outsourcing services are developing rapidly. Relevant to social science researchers working in areas of food security in connection with the SDGs, and to scholars studying development in China more generally, this is a timely contribution confronting possible means of food loss reduction, in the developing world particularly, in the East, and globally.The University of Tokyo Studies on Asia SeriesFood securityChinaRiceHarvestingFood securityRiceHarvesting.338.1951Qu Xue1781447Kojima Daizo1781448Wu Laping1781449Ando Mitsuyoshi1781450MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910919647103321Harvest Loss in China4306263UNINA