Organic Food and Farming in China: Top-down and Bottom-up Ecological Initiatives

by Aijuan Chen, Zhenzhong Si, Theresa Schumilas, et al.

Book Overview

Despite reports of food safety and quality scandals, China has a rapidly expanding organic agriculture and food sector, and there is a revolution in ecological food and ethical eating in China's cities. This book shows how a set of social, economic, cultural, and environmental conditions have converged to shape the development of a "formal" organic sector, created by "top-down" state-developed standards and regulations, and an "informal" organic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367586282
• ISBN13: 9780367586287
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"