Organic food and farming in China : top-down and bottom-up ecological initiatives / Steffanie Scott, Zhenzhong Si, Theresa Schumilas, and Aijuan Chen.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Earthscan food and agriculture.
Main Authors: Scott, Steffanie, 1970- (Author)
Si, Zhenzhong (Author)
Schumilas, Theresa (Author)
Chen, Aijuan (Author)
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Series:Earthscan food and agriculture.
Subjects:
Organic farming > China.
Organic farming.
China.
Physical Description:viii, 223 pages ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Transformations in China's food system
  • Top-down initiatives: state support for ecological and organic agriculture in China
  • The farmers' cooperative model in China's ecological agriculture sector
  • Bottom-up initiatives: the emergence of "alternative" food networks
  • Economic, ecological and interpersonal dimensions of alternative food networks
  • Farmers' markets as contested spaces: case study of the Beijing organic farmers' market
  • Promising community organizing in China's AFNs
  • Rural development initiatives amid food safety crisis: strategies, challenges and opportunities in the "new rural reconstruction movement" in China.