LEADER 03498nam 22005293 450 001 9910919647103321 005 20250101084506.0 010 $a9789819791569 010 $a9819791561 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31862774 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31862774 035 $a(CKB)37099103100041 035 $a(NjHacI)9937099103100041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937099103100041 100 $a20250101d2025 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHarvest Loss in China $eRice, Mechanization, and the Moral Hazard of Outsourcing 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer,$d2025. 210 4$dİ2025. 215 $a1 online resource (185 pages) 225 1 $aThe University of Tokyo Studies on Asia Series 311 08$a9789819791552 311 08$a9819791553 327 $aChapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Literature Review -- Chapter 3. Data Collection and Descriptive Statistics. 330 $aThis open access book examines food security in China with a specific focus on rice harvesting. As the most populous agricultural developing country, Chinas food security is closely related to the worlds food security. An urgent issue internationally, data show that every year, about one-third of food is lost and wasted before it even reaches the market, mainly in less developed countries. To this end, halving the amount of food loss and waste is one of the Sustainable Development Goals. In 2021, the Chinese government issued the Anti-Food Waste Law of the Peoples Republic of China, placing a high priority on food loss reduction. Rice, one of the major staple foods, has also received a higher priority in government policy, as it has been deemed required to be absolutely safe. In China, rice farmers rely heavily on outsourcing services to complete harvesting, which has led to the rapid development of mechanical harvesting. This book shows that the essence of outsourcing services is a principalagent relationship in which there is a potential moral hazard, which is considered detrimental to harvest losses. The book analyses the effect of the moral hazard in harvest outsourcing services on rice harvest losses from this principalagent theoretical perspective. Using the latest nationwide farmer survey, it empirically demonstrates the moral hazard in agricultural outsourcing services and its negative impact on harvest losses, providing suggestions for food loss reduction in China and similar developing countries where agricultural outsourcing services are developing rapidly. Relevant to social science researchers working in areas of food security in connection with the SDGs, and to scholars studying development in China more generally, this is a timely contribution confronting possible means of food loss reduction, in the developing world particularly, in the East, and globally. 410 4$aThe University of Tokyo Studies on Asia Series 606 $aFood security$zChina 606 $aRice$xHarvesting 615 0$aFood security 615 0$aRice$xHarvesting. 676 $a338.1951 700 $aQu$b Xue$01781447 701 $aKojima$b Daizo$01781448 701 $aWu$b Laping$01781449 701 $aAndo$b Mitsuyoshi$01781450 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910919647103321 996 $aHarvest Loss in China$94306263 997 $aUNINA