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Food Security and the Modernisation Pathway in China

Part of the Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65702-8

ISBN: 978-3-319-65701-1

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jan 27, 2018

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Chapter 1Introduction

Schwoob, Marie-Hélène

Pages: 1 –25

[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 of transition towards more...
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Chapter 2Agriculture: An Old Issue Back on the Public Agenda

Schwoob, Marie-Hélène

Pages: 27 –65

[This chapter aims at introducing historical elements about the past of China’s rural and agricultural policies, which are essential to understand the recent evolution of policies and the way they are implemented in rural areas. The chapter starts by showing how crucial the roles played by...
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Chapter 3Enterprises: The New Leaders of Agricultural Modernization

Schwoob, Marie-Hélène

Pages: 67 –123

[This chapter demonstrates how state agencies limit their ability to directly address the issues of inflation and food safety and preferentially rely on food-processing enterprises based in rural areas to modernize agricultural production. The chapter explains why these enterprises are the sole...
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Chapter 4The Grip of Local States

Schwoob, Marie-Hélène

Pages: 125 –174

[This chapter shows how state actors managed to keep control over the earlier described emerging agrarian entrepreneurship. In particular, the analysis provides details on the formal and informal resources available to local government officials of county and township levels to increase their...
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Chapter 5Small Farmers “Endure or Escape”

Schwoob, Marie-Hélène

Pages: 175 –209

[This chapter focuses on the often forgotten players of agricultural transition: farmers. It describes the interests and strategies of small farmers, who often have no choice but to endure or escape their socio-economic situation. The chapter depicts how the development of grassroots...
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Chapter 6Resulting Lock-Ins Impeding Transition Toward Environmental and Social Sustainability

Schwoob, Marie-Hélène

Pages: 211 –235

[This chapter builds on the conclusions drawn in the previous chapters to characterize the pathway which Chinese agriculture is embarking on. It demonstrates that the marginalization of small farmers in the modernization process is not only detrimental to this “low suzhi” population but also has...
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Chapter 7Conclusion

Schwoob, Marie-Hélène

Pages: 237 –249

[The conclusion starts by summarizing the main arguments of this research, linked to the dominant frame of reference for agricultural modernization in China and its impact on the sustainability of the model, in spite of pockets of innovation and desertification that exist all around the country....

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