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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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Understanding of the Reciprocal Links Between Migration and Food Security in Nanjing and the Nearby Changzhou Cities, China

The core issue of this research is to analyze food access, nutritional intake and food safety cognition level and their influencing factors among the migrants in China. Subsequently, we further make a comparative study and heterogeneity analysis from the flow direction (rural-to-urban and urban-to-urban migrants) and urban scale (regional central city Nanjing and its nearby

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New Immigrant Destinations and the Role of the Migration Industry: Moving Filipino Domestic Workers to Mainland China

In recent years, while scholarly work on new immigrant destinations (NIDs) within the United States and Europe has increased, little attention has been given the role and significance of the migration industry in promoting the emergence of NIDs. This is a particularly significant lacuna as some Asian nations are undergoing dramatic migration transition despite the

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Evolving Food Security Challenges Facing Internal Migrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chinese Cities

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly exacerbated the economic, social and political vulnerabilities of internal and international migrants and increased their food insecurity in several cities of the Global South. So far, very little attention has been paid to the dynamics of internal migrants’ food security in urban China since the emergence of the pandemic. Based

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IPaSS: Informality, Inclusive Growth and Food Security in Cities of the Global South

This foundation project of the Hungry Cities Partnership is funded by the SSHRC and IDRC under the International Partnerships for Sustainable Societies Program (IPaSS). The project has facilitated the formation of an initial seven-city research and policy network across the Global South linked to researchers at five Canadian universities. The project has embarked on a

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Assessing and Mitigating the Food Security Consequences of COVID-19 in China, Ecuador and South Africa

The proposed research will identify the immediate and longer-term impact of COVID-19 on household food security in cities, and will assess and improve fast-evolving social and policy countermeasures to enhance food security. Our research objectives are to: 1) Investigate the immediate food security challenges resulting from quarantine measures, unstable food supply, and fear of shopping

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