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The conclusion starts by summarizing the main arguments of this research, linked to the dominant frame of reference for agricultural modernization in China and its impact on the sustainability of the model, in spite of pockets of innovation and desertification that exist all around the country. It ends by providing some perspectives, for the future of the country and for the global debates on agricultural transition pathways.
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Original language: “Les réformes institutionnelles, […] souvent présentées au plan rhétorique comme le moteur de profonds changements, […] n’ont pourtant pas nécessairement pour effet de modifier les structures de pouvoir, règles ou jeux antérieurs.”
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Original language: “Entrepreneurs de réforme.”
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Schwoob, MH. (2018). Conclusion. In: Food Security and the Modernisation Pathway in China. Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65702-8_7
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