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Trends in Green Chemistry
ISSN: 2471-9889
October 05-06, 2018
Barcelona, Spain
Renewable Energy 2018
Page 15
2
nd
Edition of Global Summit on
Renewable Energy &
Emerging Technologies
Statement of the Problem:
Under the constraints of resources
and environment, the livestock husbandry in China stays at
a critical stage of its transformation and upgrading. Facing
with the inevitability of scale development and the severity
of livestock waste pollution, the standard of the treatment of
livestock and poultry manure has been increased and thus some
barriers appeared, such as the increase of farmer pollution
control costs, the imperfect manure trading market and so on.
These barriers hinder the development of animal husbandry in
China. The Chinese government invites private actors to enter
the field of rural waste resources reused policy implementation.
In such a situation, where a former hierarchical political system
becomes organized more horizontally, the question emerges
how the transformation in more horizontal structures can be
brought about and how do actors get into contact so that they
create these institutional arrangements that are needed for
more sustainably to govern the waste reused? In this paper,
the purpose is to analyze a new institutional structure that was
created by four actors and examine the development of new
horizontal structures on one level of analysis.
Methodology &Theoretical Orientation:
Under the framework of
institutional economics, the analysis will look at the role of the
broker in creating such new horizontal connections based on a
case analysis of Qionglai Lvhuan cooperative, which is one of
the first brokerage cooperatives in China. This cooperative has
developed out of market demands, specialized to transport and
distribution of livestock and poultry waste.
Findings:
Based on the case analysis, we found that this new
institutional structure caused to reduce the farmers pollution
cost, increase the cooperatives profit, enhance farmers
economic benefits, recycle and reuse the fecal waste, improve
soil quality, supply more safety and quality agricultural products
and decrease government environmental burden. Also, there still
exist some problems needing to resolve in the future, such as
manure fertilizer quality needs to be improved, transportation
networks are to be reasonably built and so on.
Conclusion & Significance:
The institutional structure has
been playing an important role in overcoming the barriers that
hinder the development of animal husbandry in China. Thus all
actors would make concerted efforts to promote it more widely.
The finding of this study may also suggest new directions for
research to determine the optimal price and equilibrium of
brokerage cooperatives’ market.
Recent Publications
1. Fang Wang, Jing Xiu Yang, Hong’an Xiao, etc. Study on
Recycle Agriculture: Theories, Methods and Practices,
China Agriculture Press, 2014.01
2. Yan Bin Qi, Gang Wang and Fang Wang (2013) Low-
carbon Development of Agriculture: Mechanism,
Dilemma, Pattern and Institutional Design, China
Agriculture Press,.10 4
3. Fang Wang (2012) Study on Development of Recycle
Agriculture under Integration of Ecological Industry
Chain and Ecological Value Chain, China Agriculture
Press,.12
4. Fang Wang, Jun’an Chen (2009) A Case of Study on
Energy Control in a Recycle Agricultural Household
System based on Input-output Model. Journal of
Agricultural Mechanization Research 31(8):15-19 24
New institutional structure in China’s rural
waste resources reused: case analysis based
on brokerage cooperatives
Fang Wang
1, 2
1
Sichuan Agricultural University, China
2
Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development - Utrecht University, Netherlands
Fang Wang, Trends in Green chem 2018, Volume 4
DOI: 10.21767/2471-9889-C3-013