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Food Security and Informal Strategies after Poverty-alleviation Resettlement in China

During the 13th Five-Year Plan period from 2016 to 2020, China resettled 9.6 million people for the purpose of poverty alleviation, which has resulted in massive displacement and land loss for villagers, disrupting traditional agricultural livelihoods and food self-sufficiency on an unprecedented scale. The transition to urban resettlement communities has led to significant challenges in […]

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Pandemic Impacts on Migrant Food Security in Nanjing, China

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed significant disparities in food security, particularly among migrant populations in urban settings. Migrant workers, often occupying precarious, low-paying jobs, experienced disruptions to their food access due to job losses, mobility restrictions, and social exclusion during the pandemic. This policy brief highlights key findings from MiFOOD research conducted in Nanjing during the

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Impact of Online Food Purchasing on Urban Household Dietary Quality

— Master’s Thesis — The transition and upgrading of grain security to food security, it is the deepening of China’s food security policy in the new era, as well as an important area of safeguarding and improving people’s livelihood. With the rapid socio-economic development leading to the increasingly diversified food consumption needs of residents, the importance

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The Impact of Spatial Distribution for “New Retail” Fresh Food Outlets on Urban Household Dietary Diversity

— Master’s Thesis — With the support of national policies and the active participation of relevant enterprises, China’s new retail industry has grown rapidly and become one of the largest retail markets in the world. The combination of the new retail model and the fresh retail industry has given birth to a new way of purchasing

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Exploring a Novel Approach to Enhancing Urban Food Affordability: Assessing Subsidy Policies for Food Retailers in China

Urban food affordability is pivotal to achieving the second of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—Zero Hunger. This paper introduces fresh evidence and innovative practices from the Global South, focusing on retailer-side strategies to address urban food affordability issues. Specifically, it investigates the impact of China’s policy on subsidizing and facilitating the establishment and

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Embedding Global Sustainable Development Goals in Local Agroecology Initiatives: Experiences from China

As part of sustainable agricultural innovations and the alternative food movement, agroecology provides important tools to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Yet very few existing studies have explicitly addressed their linkages. Synergies among the SDGs are often examined at the national level, overlooking nuanced opportunities revealed by small agroecology initiatives at the local scale.

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E-grocery as a New Site of Financialization? Financial Drivers of the Rise and Fall of China’s E-grocery Sector

During the past fve years, the e-grocery sector in China has experienced double-digit growth which accelerated at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Part of this hypergrowth was fueled by changing consumption patterns and pandemic-induced demand for contactless food delivery. However, this study highlights two other important but understudied drivers of the e-grocery boom -the

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Role of Migrants in Urban Food Retailing: Wet Market Vendors and Takeaway Riders

This research focuses on understanding the characteristics of migrant takeaway riders and migrant vendors in wet markets, how they operate their businesses, and their role in Nanjing’s urban food system. It aims to investigate the following questions: Firstly, we intend to analyze the characteristics of these migrant workers in the two sectors, employing a comparative

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