Obesity has become a major public health issue in China. Overweight and obesity have
increased rapidly in the past four decades, and the latest national prevalence estimates for …

Although there has been increasing focus in recent years on interdisciplinary approaches to
health and disease, and in particular the dimension of social inequalities in epidemics …

Wet markets, a 'traditional'form of food retail, have maintained their popularity in urban China
despite the rapid expansion of 'modern'supermarket chains. Their continued popularity rests …

Population-level COVID-19 containment strategies have been particularly hard on the urban
poor and vulnerable population groups such as female-headed households, children, youth …

Chinese cities have been able to maintain much higher levels of household food security
than many other cities in the Global South, according to recent surveys. Yet, little is known …

In response to calls to apply the multiple streams framework to nondemocracies, this article
adapts the framework to an authoritarian context and applies it to a case study of live poultry …

As the world is becoming increasingly urbanised, urban food security and provisioning are
the focus of growing attention. The inability of current food systems to meet the food …

This paper examines the relationship between the rapid growth of online food purchasing
and household food security during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in China using …

Despite reports of food safety and quality scandals, China has a rapidly expanding organic
agriculture and food sector, and there is a revolution in ecological food and ethical eating in …

Like many emerging economies in the Global South, China is experiencing major
transformations of its national and local food system characterized by the rise of …