The global food system currently requires a transformation in terms of both social and
technological norms in order to be environmentally sustainable and productive enough to …

This paper examines the politics of possibility for rural activism in reform era China. By
periodizing rural reforms from 1990, we explore the political-economic changes that have …

Rural development in the Chinese state's strategy has been a changing political-economic
problematic. The state has practiced a strategic essentialism with regard to 'peasantry.'It has …

This paper examines how alternative food networks (AFNs) cultivate engagement on a
social media platform. Using the method proposed in Kar and Dwivedi (2020) and Berente …

Rebuilding and intensifying the rural-urban connections is a vital pathway to reverse the
rural decline tendency as the permanent exodus of young people and induced rural-urban …

Alternative food networks (AFNs) have been viewed as being more deeply embedded in the
fabric of places and the social relations of their food systems than conventional food …

There has been remarkable growth in the number of cooperatives in China in the past
decade. This article asks: what role are cooperatives playing in driving China's ambitious …

In less than half a century (1978–2020), China has transformed itself from a country that
barely fed itself to a powerful player in the global food system, characterized by massive …

The shift from the conventional agri-food system to alternative practices is a challenging
transition for agricultural producers, yet surprisingly under-studied. Little research has …

The political economy of agrarian changes in rural China has attracted much scholarly
attention. Yet these studies have placed limited emphasis on the role of food safety crisis, a …