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Chinese food self-provisioning: key sustainability policy lessons hidden in plain sight

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  • Petr Jehlička

    (Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences)

  • Huidi Ma

    (Chinese National Academy of Arts)

  • Tomáš Kostelecký

    (Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences)

  • Joe Smith

    (Royal Geographical Society (with IBG))

Abstract

Drawing on an exploratory study of urban food self-provisioning (FSP) in China, this article argues that progress in sustainability scholarship can be accelerated by embracing a greater diversity of framings of sustainability. It brings four important empirical findings concerning the prevalence of Chinese urban FSP, the social diversity of its practitioners, their primarily non-economic motivations, and production methods meeting the criteria for organic food that are deployed by more than a third of urban food growers. On this basis, the article highlights the importance of greater attention to identifying and valuing ‘already existing sustainability’ in non-Western contexts, rather than privileging Western conceptualizations of sustainability that promise sustainability innovation in the future.

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  • Petr Jehlička & Huidi Ma & Tomáš Kostelecký & Joe Smith, 2024. "Chinese food self-provisioning: key sustainability policy lessons hidden in plain sight," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 41(2), pages 647-659, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:agrhuv:v:41:y:2024:i:2:d:10.1007_s10460-023-10506-7
    DOI: 10.1007/s10460-023-10506-7
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