Wang, R. Y., Z. Si, C. N. Ng, and S. Scott. 2015. The transformation of trust in China’s alternative food networks: disruption, reconstruction, development. Ecology Society 20(2): 19. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07536-200219

Abstract Rapid socioeconomic and institutional changes in Vietnam since the early 1990s have opened up new geographical spaces for field research. Reflecting on experiences of three doctoral student researchers engaged distinct development geography fieldwork projects Vietnam, this paper profiles some conditions procedures carrying out order to serve as a basis comparison changing ‘fieldwork possibilities’ other developing transitional socialist countries.

Abstract Organic agriculture has the potential to provide improved livelihood opportunities, increased income and social benefits for resource-poor small-scale farmers. It thus become a popular strategy economic development poverty reduction in many areas of global south. However, there been limited empirical research regarding actual certified organic production, particularly when is combined with fair trade certification, farmers who are not engaged coffee or banana production. Further...

Since 1978, China has experienced a rapid loss of arable land, leading to centralizing farmland protection policies. To understand the growing centralization, this paper used lens interactions among (1) unwillingness protect diverse actors, (2) policy failure and (3) change. The centralization is an adaptive response from local up provincial government levels, its associated failure. article suggests that gradual over last almost 40 years gone through three phases: county-level,...

Food supply localization has been extensively studied and advocated in North America Europe, focusing on its oppositional stance to food system globalization, long chains, the disconnect between producers consumers, a desire reconnect urban consumers with small farmers hinterland of cities. The Northern model city-region recently taken up by governments, promoted international agencies such as FAO embedded New Urban Agenda (NUA) Habitat III Milan Policy Pact. This paper focuses an...

Through a case study in village located suburban Haikou City, Hainan Province, this article suggests the existence of local development regime that exercises illegal farmland conversion China's urban periphery. This consists not only state officials and business investors, but also farmers anxious for off-farm employment. Our highlights broad transitions led to rise regimes These include (1) state, (2) farmers' changing relations with authorities, (3) asymmetrical liberalization land...

This paper describes the recent emergence of alternative food networks in China context widespread quality concerns. Drawing on interviews and public blog posts, we illustrate how participants these are moving beyond instrumental market relations developing collective agency necessary to participate shaping China's system. We argue that initiators not only individual shoppers who ‘vote with their chopsticks’, but also nascent activists deploying grassroots community organising strategies....

Based on a survey of 1,210 households in Nanjing, China, the article looks at purchasing frequency various food items different retail outlets, accessibility these outlets and use sources. We found that while supermarkets are top venues for staple grains, dairy products processed food, wet markets still prevail fresh produce meat. The data also depict complexity sources beyond conventional retailing outlets. recommend Chinese security policies be broadened to incorporate urban environment...

Detailed empirical work on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic food security is scant. Local management has received little attention.This article describes emergency policies in Wuhan and Nanjing, China during lockdown 2020 their implications for household two cities.Policy documents background data describe measures. Online surveys residents Chinese cities were used to gauge security.Despite determined efforts provincial city governments ensure that reached people who locked down Wuhan, or...

The global COVID-19 pandemic has elicited a range of public health governance responses. One common result been an associated disruption food supply chains and growing urban insecurity. Policy responses to this situation have not yet received sufficient research attention. This paper therefore focuses on the security implications China's zero-COVID measures response central, provincial municipal government challenge ensuring stable consumers. During outbreak in early 2020 China, lockdown...

What we eat simultaneously impacts our exposure to pathogens, allergens, and contaminants, nutritional status body composition, risks for the progression of chronic diseases, other outcomes. Furthermore, what is influenced by a complex web drivers, including culture, politics, economics, built natural environments. To date, public health initiatives aimed at improving food-related population outcomes have primarily been developed within 'practice silos', potential interactions among such not...

Abstract This paper reviews the evolution of land use and mangrove forest management in a coastal commune Central Vietnam from its early period environmentally sound under common property regime, through State cooperative management, to individual household allocation economic reforms 1990s. It analyses particular introduction shrimp culture environmental socioeconomic consequences. The case study demonstrates that, while opening up many opportunities, Vietnam's have had uneven impacts on...

AbstractRural sociologists and geographers have conceptualised different rural development trajectories including "the agri-industrial model", post-productivist model" model". Alternative food networks (AFNs) are increasingly recognised as a "forerunner" critical component of the emerging "rural in West. Meanwhile, Marsden Franklin [2013. Replacing neoliberalism: theoretical implications rise local movements. Local Environment, 18 (5), 636–641] pointed out that there is "local trap" current...

Food safety has become an increasingly pressing sociopolitical issue in China due to the outbreak of food scandals since 2000s. Existing studies have highlighted socio-economic context this issue, its drivers and implications. Yet, few examined perceptions conditions strategies undertaken by consumers their daily lives cope with challenge. Based on a city-wide survey 1210 households 36 interviews Nanjing, China, research adopts ‘everyday’ perspective analysis investigate Nanjing residents’...