Restoring food reserves and palliating food ration 'leakage' are top priorities for policymakers in the face of increasing populations, changing diets, environmental pressures and climate change. During an emergency, when food supply is in high demand, the current Laws of International...

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 about the governance of the food provisioning system that underpins its urban food security. Based on a combination...

In a contemporary globalised world, assuring food security in the conditions of developing a food self-sufficient economic structure represents not only a challenge in terms of the changing agricultural paradigm, but also an important instrument in assuring, in a long-term manner, societal...

The global food system faces major risks and threats that can cause massive economic loss; dislocation of food supply chains; and welfare loss of producers, consumers, and other food system actors. The interrelated nature of the system has highlighted the complexity of risks. Climate change,...

Food system planning is important to achieve the goal of "zero hunger" in the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (UN, 2016). However, discussion about comprehensive planning for food security is scarce and little is known about the situation in Chinese cities. To narrow this gap, this...

Food security never fails to attract high attention of researchers and policy makers, especially in China, which has more than one fifth of the world's population, but where the total cultivated area accounts for only about seven percent of the world's total cultivated area. However, thus far,...

Motivation: Detailed empirical work on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security is scant. Local management of food security has received little attention. Purpose: This article describes emergency food policies in Wuhan and Nanjing, China during lockdown in 2020 and their implications...

Food security is closely related to individual livelihood and social stability, and assessing the state of food security is essential for making agricultural policies. Nonetheless multi-scale assessment of national food security state with explicit consideration of availability and access remains...

Food system transformation has been a widely discussed topic in international society over time. For the last few decades, China has made remarkable achievements in food production and has contributed greatly to the reduction in global hunger and poverty. Examining experiences and lessons from...

This article analyzes the development process and practical challenges of global food security governance in recent years and proposes the transformation strategies of global food security governance. The study shows that, in the face of multiple challenges, such as agricultural pollution, food...