Overview
- Provides a thorough analysis of agriculture in China
- Offers a multidisciplinary approach which provides students, experts, practitioners and decision-makers with a comprehensive overview of these complex issues
- Uses consistent and original first hand research material, collected by the author during months of fieldwork in China
Part of the book series: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific (CSAP)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book aims at providing students, experts and practitioners with a detailed overview of agricultural and food security issues in China, analyzed through the lenses of a multidisciplinary approach that enables to fully grasp the current socio-political challenges and lock-ins of agricultural transformation towards more sustainable practices.
Confronted to a running decrease and degradation of its resources and rapidly evolving food habits, China became a net importer of food in 2004, and its agricultural balance has since become heavier every day. Beyond providing a comprehensive overview of these stakes, this book also presents consistent and original first hand research material, collected by the author during months of fieldwork in China, in the countryside and from various economic and political circles. Conclusions drawn from this often difficult to access) fieldwork shed light on the whole galaxy of public and private stakeholders taking part in agricultural modernization in China, on their interests and on the patterns of power that underlie the development and implementation of agricultural policies.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Food Security and the Modernisation Pathway in China
Book Subtitle: Towards Sustainable Agriculture
Authors: Marie-Hélène Schwoob
Series Title: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65702-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65701-1Published: 07 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88084-6Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65702-8Published: 26 January 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-222X
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2238
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 265
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 48 illustrations in colour
Topics: Asian Politics, International Security Studies, Agricultural Economics