Addressing the dual challenges of food security and environmental sustainability during rural livelihood transitions in China

Qi, Xiaoxing; Dang, Heping

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.05.047

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Section: Sustainable Food Security Drivers and Pragmatic Interventions In The Agriculture Sectormentioning

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“…The literature indicated the most common driver of sustainable food security is the food security governance decisions [43][44][45][46][47][48], which subsidy and assistance programs are the most implemented interventions globally. The state of government policy, transformation programs, and subsidies, positively leaned towards attaining the "availability" domain in food security [47]. Nonetheless, such policies have obscured the environmental impact, resulting in a higher environmental cost per unit of rice output, but with approximately twice the level of fertilizer and pesticide input.…”

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Exploring the Drivers and the Interventions towards Sustainable Food Security in the Food Supply Chain

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The sustainability of food security is a global concern, and one of the priorities related to it is the ability to identify effective efforts that can protect food security along the food supply chain (FSC). The present study demystifies the relation of sustainability and food security and structurally identifies the sustainable drivers, and the pragmatic interventions that can critically contribute to the sustainability of food security within each stage of the FSC. A systematic review of articles from six databases was implemented. Thematic analysis was engaged to detect the sustainable drivers and interventions practised at each stage in the FSC for food security purposes. Six main themes of the drivers and interventions were derived from the analysis: food security governance involvement, input resource management, output management, information sharing, income, and technology. The result identifies the potential that quality management has on the mediating effect towards sustainable food security, through which a conceptual model for sustainable food security in the FSC was thus developed. It is deduced that mapping and categorizing the drivers and intervention of sustainable food securities could help deepen the understanding of effective and innovative practices towards food security in the FSC.

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Section: Sustainable Food Security Drivers and Pragmatic Interventions In The Agriculture Sectormentioning

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Section: Sustainable Food Security Drivers and Pragmatic Interventions In The Agriculture Sectormentioning

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Exploring the Drivers and the Interventions towards Sustainable Food Security in the Food Supply Chain

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“…Examples in both China and Nepal demonstrate that outmigration to cities from rural communities -particularly of the strongest, brightest and most ambitious men -leaves farmlands with less labor, less productivity, and less opportunity to compete with global, industrialized food producers [6,7]. Additionally, Qi and Dang point out, there is a stronger drive toward chemical and machinery inputs in traditional Chinese farmlands, causing serious damage to the environment both upstream and downstream of the agricultural sector as well as on the farms themselves.…”

Section: National Food Security Threatsmentioning

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“…Identities associated with tradition, cultural history, and family heritage then become less significant and often are abandoned, resulting in the loss of place-based knowledge and capability [5]. The loss of agricultural production that accompanies abandonment of rural livelihoods creates a reliance on world food markets, often associated either with industrial agriculture and agronomic business, or with importation of agricultural products grown elsewhere [6,7]. The perpetuation of the urban-growth cycle, then, holds the potential to create dependency on outside resources or industries to provide sufficient food to a non-industrialized nation even as it strives to achieve industrialized modernity, or "development.…”

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Making the Case for Food Security through Contextual Engineering

2019

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A non-westernized nation’s food security often depends on preservation of rural agricultural livelihoods, yet a globalizationdriven international effort to “develop” societies by providing modern infrastructure has focused on population centers, creating two-tiered economies that frequently leave rural populations behind. As a result, young residents of rural communities are migrating with greater frequency to urban areas, viewing their home society as outdated and irrelevant. To address this disparity, organizations and volunteer groups attempt to deliver infrastructure interventions to small rural communities, often drawing upon their own experience or out-of-the-box designs to provide water, sanitation, transportation, or energy. The success rate of these interventions in meeting societal needs are marginal at best, often disregarding indigenous practices and beliefs and further demeaning rural lifestyles. A new approach is needed to stabilize rural communities and sustain agricultural livelihoods throughout the alternately developed world through quality-of-life improvements via engineered infrastructure. Contextual engineering merges technical design with sociological understanding to identify the critical influences that govern each client community, dispensing with the artifice of scalability to address specific physical needs. By focusing on client society beliefs, values, and needs, the infrastructure designer may better create an affordable, functional, and appropriate infrastructure to support and advance that rural society. This paper will present the contextual engineering concept’s potential to support rural growth for stronger agricultural productivity and national food security.

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“…The livelihoods of China's rural residents have shifted from traditional agriculture to part-time farming and non-agricultural activities, and their sources of income have shifted from farming income alone to employment in the service industry, with nonfarming income becoming a major source of income for farmers. The transformation of rural livelihoods in China is affected by two challenges: food security and environmental sustainability [36]. Differences in households' livelihood endowments and livelihood strategies impact the effectiveness of agricultural conservation policies, such as ecological compensation [37].…”

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The Nexus between Rural Household Livelihoods and Agricultural Functions: Evidence from China

Liu

Fang

2021

Agriculture

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Understanding the relationship between households’ livelihoods and agricultural functions is important for regulating and balancing households’ and macrosocieties’ agricultural functional needs and formulating better agricultural policies and rural revitalization strategies. This paper uses peasant household survey data obtained from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) and statistical analysis methods, to analyze the differences in livelihood assets and agricultural functions of households with different livelihood strategies and the relationship between livelihood assets and agricultural functions. Households are categorized based on their livelihood strategies as full-time farming households, part-time farming I households, part-time farming II households, and non-farming households. The agricultural product supply and negative effects of the ecological service function of full-time farming households are higher than those of part-time farming and non-farming households. Part-time farming I households have the strongest social security function, while non-farming households have the weakest social security function. Non-farming households have the strongest leisure and cultural function, while part-time farming I households have the weakest leisure and cultural function. Households’ demand for agricultural functions is affected by livelihood assets. Effective measures should be taken to address contradictions in the agricultural functional demands of households and macrosocieties.

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Addressing the dual challenges of food security and environmental sustainability during rural livelihood transitions in China

Cited by 37 publications

References 49 publications

Exploring the Drivers and the Interventions towards Sustainable Food Security in the Food Supply Chain

Exploring the Drivers and the Interventions towards Sustainable Food Security in the Food Supply Chain

Making the Case for Food Security through Contextual Engineering

The Nexus between Rural Household Livelihoods and Agricultural Functions: Evidence from China

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