Convivial Agriculture: Evolving Food and Farming Activism in South China

Leung, Daren Shi-chi

doi:10.4000/chinaperspectives.11674

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“…They connect producers to customers by certification and forms of memberships and require a high level of involvement in daily operations from consumers (Loconto et al. , 2018; Leung, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The promotion of food, the creation of relationships as well as the level of collaboration intensity relies on the level of trust between all stakeholders. The higher the trust and commitment the more likely dependence on the relationship arises (Kraus et al, 2014;Badraoui et al, 2020;Leung, 2021). Trust can be obtained through certification of food (Kraus et al, 2014;Leung, 2021).…”

Section: Relationships In Intermediate Sfscsmentioning

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Intermediate short food supply chains: a systematic review

Renkema

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2022

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PurposeIntermediate short food supply chains (SFSC) have been presented as a possible solution to unsustainable global food supply chains. There is currently a knowledge gap about intermediate SFSC. Thus, this review synthesizes the available literature to identify prominent themes and their main considerations.Design/methodology/approachThis research is based on a systematic literature review including peer-reviewed journal articles until December 2021. Inductive data coding resulted in the identification of four themes related to intermediate SFSC.FindingsThe identified themes illustrate the complex landscape intermediate SFSCs operate in and focus on the key relationships within these supply chains. The established relationships have implications for the governance of intermediate SFSCs. The organization of intermediate SFSCs affects numerous sustainability indicators.Research limitations/implicationsFuture research should focus on the position intermediate SFSCs have in food systems and the roles intermediaries have in intermediate SFSCs. There is furthermore an opportunity for researchers to investigate different types of intermediaries and explore the factors influencing them.Originality/valueCreating sustainable food supply chains is one of the major societal challenges of today. The current state of the art suggests that intermediate SFSCs could play an important role in achieving this. So far, this area is underdeveloped and this review highlights knowledge gaps in the literature and suggestions for a future research agenda are proposed.

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Section: Relationships In Intermediate Sfscsmentioning

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Intermediate short food supply chains: a systematic review

Renkema

Hilletofth

2022

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“…One of the urban obstacles goes to the prevailing context of food-safety problems. Recurring food scandals produce public anxiety and lack of trust in China's chaotic conventional food chains, while leaving space for so-called emerging alternative food chains to flourish (Leung, 2021;Scott et al, 2014;Veeck et al, 2010). Yet, civil authorities attempt to regain public trust in their promotion of safe, quality food sourced from urban communities, in contrast to the progressive but still ineffective state-led food-safety policy (Leung, 2021;Scott et al, 2018).…”

Section: The Rural-urban Challenge For Sustaining Community Agrarianismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recurring food scandals produce public anxiety and lack of trust in China's chaotic conventional food chains, while leaving space for so-called emerging alternative food chains to flourish (Leung, 2021;Scott et al, 2014;Veeck et al, 2010). Yet, civil authorities attempt to regain public trust in their promotion of safe, quality food sourced from urban communities, in contrast to the progressive but still ineffective state-led food-safety policy (Leung, 2021;Scott et al, 2018). Due to such high levels of public distrust, Kelvin Wang (interview, 2019), a rural social worker organising eco-rice cooperatives in Yunnan, still remembers that when CSA commenced, it often experienced poor sales.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Commoning the environment can be approached by rural and urban communities through shared interests in food. As I and others have argued, an "agricultural commons" (Cameron, 2015;Leung, 2021) should take into account the preservation of agrarian knowledge as a basis for improving consumer-producer relationships. Such an approach offers localized knowledge in support of the booming trend of CSA farms and related cooperatives across the country (Cook, 2016).…”

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Reviving Community Agrarianism in Post-socialist China

Leung¹

2022

Beyond Global Food Supply Chains

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Tasked with feeding 1.4 billion people, China often promotes its success in food security in relation to its self-sufficient grain production. In the post-socialist context, the reformist state has been pursuing a capital-based vertical model to integrate millions of smallholding producers into the market. Yet, the introduction of high-yield hybrid rice to increase production has resulted in a set of related crises, including widespread environmental pollution, food-safety issues and adverse impacts on rural life. However, agrarian communities are challenging these state-imposed practices of food production. This chapter explores an endogenous form of regenerative agriculture that has emerged in South China since the early 2000s, a Chinese form of food and farming activism for reviving community agrarianism. I argue that the revitalization of “traditional” farming practices as a form of xaingtu (rural) knowledge has evolved with and through local peasants’ experience and struggle over the decades. One example that combines diverse aspects of such knowledge is the “fish-duck-rice paddy”, a well-known symbiotic method of pest control that also works with native varieties, organic manure and cooperative labour. This method revives peasants’ experience of the Mao era as a cultural reference for community agrarianism. The revival of community agrarianism allows farming to be narrated as an evolving social and historical practice, not “wasting” peasants’ knowledge, in contrast to the capitalist agrarian transformation.

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