0576921 - EÚ 2025 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Jehlička, Petr - Ma, H. - Kostelecký, Tomáš - Smith, J.
Chinese food self-provisioning: key sustainability policy lessons hidden in plain sight.
Agriculture and Human Values. Roč. 41 (2024), s. 647-659. ISSN 0889-048X. E-ISSN 1572-8366
Institutional support: RVO:68378076 ; RVO:68378025
Keywords : Alternative food networks * China * Food self-provisioning * Innovation * Maintenance * Sustainability
OECD category: Antropology, ethnology; Sociology (SOU-Z)
Impact factor: 3.5, year: 2023
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10460-023-10506-7

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.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0347118