Food safety is an important basis for promoting economic development, ensuring social stability and maintaining national security. Research on the evaluation of food security is the basis by which to accurately grasp the food security situation and to establish national food security policies in a...

High-throughput sequencing (HTS) has instigated a paradigm shift in plant pathology, showcasing its transformative role in the management of plant diseases. As a powerful tool, HTS aids in identifying pathogens and enhances disease management strategies by detecting novel and emerging pathogens,...

This study analyzed change and spatial patterns of land use in Shanxi from 2000 to 2020. The drivers of land use and cover change (LUCC) in cultivated lands, forest lands, grasslands, and rural construction areas were explored from four dimensions, including population, natural environment,...

Objectives: The retail food industry, a major essential business, is among the very few thriving sectors during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, such prosperity on the store side does not guarantee a sufficient food supply for all populations. This study aims to understand if people's risk...

This chapter discusses trans fats that have been related to safety issues. Partially hydrogenated oils containing high amount of trans fats have been widely used in commercial food products and the safety issue has attracted a lot of attention because consumption of trans fats can be related to...

As an ideal substitute for animal products, artificial meat is a key step to transform traditional animal husbandry, which has a certain strategic significance for China's food security and livestock supply system adjustment. Combined with technological trajectory and based on the artificial meat...

Extreme climate events constitute a major risk to global food production. Among these, extreme rainfall is often dismissed from historical analyses and future projections, the impacts and mechanisms of which remain poorly understood. Here we used long-term nationwide observations and multi-level...

The construction of urban food safety involves food quality and safety control of planting, breeding, food production and management, livestock and poultry slaughtering, food and beverage disinfection, etc. This paper expounded the factors affecting urban food security, including agricultural,...

Nanomaterials (NMs) have received considerable attention in the field of agrochemicals due to their special properties, such as small particle size, surface structure, solubility and chemical composition. The application of NMs and nanotechnology in agrochemicals dramatically overcomes the defects...

Being the largest producer and consumer of grain in the world, China occupies an extremely important position in the world grain market. The grain security of China is confronted with such problems as shortages of water and soil resources, a fragile ecological environment, and infrastructure...