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Experiences and Lessons from Agri-Food System Transformation for Sustainable Food Security: A Review of China’s Practices
Food system transformation has been a widely discussed topic in international society over time. For the last few decades, China has made remarkable achievements in food production and has contributed greatly to the reduction in global hunger and poverty. Examining experiences and lessons from China...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8774459/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35053869 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods11020137 |
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author | Lu, Yujia Zhang, Yongxun Hong, Yu He, Lulu Chen, Yangfen |
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description | Food system transformation has been a widely discussed topic in international society over time. For the last few decades, China has made remarkable achievements in food production and has contributed greatly to the reduction in global hunger and poverty. Examining experiences and lessons from China’s food security practices over the years is helpful to promote a national food system transformation for China, as well as other developing countries. This study systematically reviews the literature on Chinese food security studies, with the aim of assessing China’s food security achievements and examining the remaining and emerging issues in the pursuit of food system transformation. The results show that China has continuously promoted food system transformation in land consolidation, agri-food production technologies, management and organization modes, food reserves, trade governance, and food consumption. These transformations ensure not only food availability, timeliness, and nutrition, but also in terms of the ecological, social, and economic sustainability, feasibility, and justice of food security. However, China is also confronting new challenges in food security, for example, malnutrition, environmental unsustainability, and reductions in diversified agri-food. In the future, China is expected to be committed to promoting healthy diets, sustainable agricultural production, climate change mitigation, and the reduction of food waste and loss to enhance its agri-food system’s resilience. |
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spelling | pubmed-87744592022-01-21 Experiences and Lessons from Agri-Food System Transformation for Sustainable Food Security: A Review of China’s Practices Lu, Yujia Zhang, Yongxun Hong, Yu He, Lulu Chen, Yangfen Foods Review Food system transformation has been a widely discussed topic in international society over time. For the last few decades, China has made remarkable achievements in food production and has contributed greatly to the reduction in global hunger and poverty. Examining experiences and lessons from China’s food security practices over the years is helpful to promote a national food system transformation for China, as well as other developing countries. This study systematically reviews the literature on Chinese food security studies, with the aim of assessing China’s food security achievements and examining the remaining and emerging issues in the pursuit of food system transformation. The results show that China has continuously promoted food system transformation in land consolidation, agri-food production technologies, management and organization modes, food reserves, trade governance, and food consumption. These transformations ensure not only food availability, timeliness, and nutrition, but also in terms of the ecological, social, and economic sustainability, feasibility, and justice of food security. However, China is also confronting new challenges in food security, for example, malnutrition, environmental unsustainability, and reductions in diversified agri-food. In the future, China is expected to be committed to promoting healthy diets, sustainable agricultural production, climate change mitigation, and the reduction of food waste and loss to enhance its agri-food system’s resilience. MDPI 2022-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8774459/ /pubmed/35053869 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods11020137 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Lu, Yujia Zhang, Yongxun Hong, Yu He, Lulu Chen, Yangfen Experiences and Lessons from Agri-Food System Transformation for Sustainable Food Security: A Review of China’s Practices |
title | Experiences and Lessons from Agri-Food System Transformation for Sustainable Food Security: A Review of China’s Practices |
title_full | Experiences and Lessons from Agri-Food System Transformation for Sustainable Food Security: A Review of China’s Practices |
title_fullStr | Experiences and Lessons from Agri-Food System Transformation for Sustainable Food Security: A Review of China’s Practices |
title_full_unstemmed | Experiences and Lessons from Agri-Food System Transformation for Sustainable Food Security: A Review of China’s Practices |
title_short | Experiences and Lessons from Agri-Food System Transformation for Sustainable Food Security: A Review of China’s Practices |
title_sort | experiences and lessons from agri-food system transformation for sustainable food security: a review of china’s practices |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8774459/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35053869 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods11020137 |
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