Contradictions in state- and civil society-driven developments in China’s ecological agriculture sector

Scott, Steffanie; Si, Zhenzhong; Schumilas, Theresa; Chen, Aijuan

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2013.08.002

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“…Other issues occur in the off-farming processing and the distribution of food, in particular, the use of additives. While state authorities have recognized food safety issues, China's many small-scale farmers and scattered channels of food distribution have made regulating the food system a dreadful task [18]. As a result, it has become harder to trace the origins of food production and evaluate the degree of safety in its methods.…”

Section: The Urban Food Desertmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Emerging issues and dissatisfaction with the conventional food system, most notably that of food safety, has motivated China's civil society to initiate new approaches to how food systems should be organized [18]. The majority of these initiatives occurred in China's urban and peri-urban areas, but a few have been initiated in more remote areas as well [29].…”

Section: Responses In the Urban Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, Scott et al [18] find that consumers of CSA are primarily motivated by food safety, and show limited concerns about improving the environment or the livelihood of the local peasants. In a study on four types of AFNs in China including CSA, Si et al [16] have examined the nature of alternative food networks (AFNs) and compared it with their Western counterparts.…”

Section: Responses In the Urban Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In particular the two studies by Si et al [16] and Scott et al [18] point to several inconsistencies between the consumers, producers, and initiators of the Chinese CSA movement). In line with findings by Scott et al [18], this is partly because the integration and interaction between "new" and local farmers remain low in the current CSA movement. Instead, the current CSA actors are restricted to a small and homogenous segment in China's society.…”

Section: Structural Embeddedness: the Socio-spatial Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Alternative Approaches to Food: Community Supported Agriculture in Urban China

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2017

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Abstract:One of the most remarkable features of China's development path is its large-scale and fast-paced urbanization. As cities already accommodate more than half of China's population, new challenges to urban food systems have emerged concurrently. Concerns over environmental degradation and food safety have provoked growing dissatisfaction with China's food regime. Amidst these concerns, the aim of this paper is to study the role of new and alternative approaches to food, focusing in on the question of how community supported agriculture (CSA) can deal with the food-related issues emerging from China's development. The paper adopts Granovetter's notions of social embeddedness to describe CSA's relational role in consumer-farmer dynamics, as well as the structural role within its broader relational context. Empirical data is drawn from surveys distributed among CSA farms, and interviews with key stakeholders in the Chinese CSA movement. The study finds that the model of CSA demonstrates an innovative approach to deal with food safety issues, address sustainability, and operate in an environment where future food demands are most critical. Although the movement's structural embeddedness is bound by several limitations and contradictions, it is argued that the CSA model offers important insights and adds value into ameliorating China's food systems.

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Section: The Urban Food Desertmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Responses In the Urban Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Responses In the Urban Contextmentioning

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Section: Structural Embeddedness: the Socio-spatial Contextmentioning

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“…To better accommodate the situation in China, we adopt this typology in the current study with two slight modifications: (1) we consider green, hazard-free, 1 and organic agriculture as ecological agriculture under the category of deepening strategy in this paper (see Scott, Si, Schumilas, & Chen, 2014, for the differences between organic, green, and hazard-free certification); and (2) we do not consider off-farm income to be a regrounding strategy for FPCs. Part-time farming is a common phenomenon in rural China, so it should not be viewed as an alternative farming activity.…”

Section: New Forms Of Cost Reductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rural development strategies and government roles in the development of farmers’ cooperatives in China

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2014

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Can “green food” certification achieve both sustainable practices and economic benefits in a transitional economy? The case of kiwifruit growers in Henan Province, China

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Gao

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The unique "green food" certification scheme in China, which is aimed to ensure environmental and product safety, has attracted increasing attention. In this study, using 398 household-level survey data from kiwifruit growers in Xixia county of Henan Province, China, alongside a propensity score matching method, we examined the impact of "green food" certification scheme on economic and environmental effects. Our results showed that: (a) the "green food" certification program did not have significant environmental effect of sustainable production practices because kiwifruit growers did not significantly increase farmyard manure, reduce pesticide and chemical material inputs, except for employed labor inputs; (b) the certification did have significantly economic effect because certified growers received higher sale prices and had reasonable and even higher economic benefits. These findings suggest that the "green food" certification program did not significantly reduce the chemical material inputs, but it helped kiwifruit growers receive higher economic benefits. The "green food" certification program has not achieved its two major goals for kiwifruit production in China [EconLit citations: O13, O44, Q01]. K E Y W O R D S "green food" certification, China, economic benefit, impact assessment, kiwifruit, sustainable practices 1 | INTRODUCTION Over the past two decades, considerable growth has occurred in certified markets (e.g., Fair Trade, the Rainforest

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Contradictions in state- and civil society-driven developments in China’s ecological agriculture sector

Cited by 114 publications

References 27 publications

Alternative Approaches to Food: Community Supported Agriculture in Urban China

Alternative Approaches to Food: Community Supported Agriculture in Urban China

Rural development strategies and government roles in the development of farmers’ cooperatives in China

Can “green food” certification achieve both sustainable practices and economic benefits in a transitional economy? The case of kiwifruit growers in Henan Province, China

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