A relational view of self-protection amongst China’s food safety crises

A Consociation Model: Organization of Collective Entrepreneurship for Village Revitalization

“…These findings are in line with Adam Smith, who arguesd that while individuals have a moral duty to behave with others' interests in mind [27], there is an "order of beneficence [62] associated with their social distance. This order is reflected in Chinese relationship classification (Yang, 1999), especially family and intimate relationships in Chinese villages [63,64]. These series of elements illustrate how consociation building in the context of prosocial entrepreneurship is different from the traditional notion of consociation in sociopolitical science.…”

Application of bayesian network modelling to predict food fraud products from China

“…There is also a high level of trust towards small vegetable vendors and farmers among the participants especially if they knew the sellers and were aware that the sellers were also producing the fresh produce for self-consumption. Farmers were found to practise a self-protection mechanism by adopting a 'one-family-two-cultivation-system' where safe, healthy food that are not treated with chemicals were used for own consumption, for relatives and people with close social ties, while unsafe and lesser quality produce was sold to strangers in the market (Lin, Fang, Zhou, & Xu, 2018;Si, Li, Fang, & Zhou, 2018). This is still prevalent among the rural participants as Chinese rural villages are still very much an 'acquaintance society'a society where everyone is familiar with everyone else (Xiong & Payne, 2017).…”

China’s changing food system: top-down and bottom-up forces in food system transformations

“…These initiatives, referred to as "self-protection movements" in the article, are ecological farmers' cooperatives and alternative food distribution channels. Yet, bottom-up responses are not only about consumer access to safe and quality food, but also about peasant farmers' responses, as both producers and consumers, in food production and provisioning, as shown in Lin et al (2019). Lin and co-authors examine how peasant farmers facing food safety challenges produce two different types of food accessible for different groups of people, which is what they call "one family, two systems".…”

“…The eight articles in this collection make critical contributions to the scholarship of agrifood studies, particularly the political economy of food production and consumption. There has been little research to date on the important issue of the relationship between "virtual land imports" and land conversion , food sovereignty discourses (Gaudreau 2019), competing relationships between rural social classes (Huang 2019), changing roles of local government in greening food production (Qiao et al 2019), consumer channels of food access beyond food retail outlets (Si, Scott, and McCordic 2019), the role of social media platforms in community supported agriculture development (Chen and Tan 2019) and the "self-protection" movements (of informal economies of clean food) among farmers and consumers (Lin et al 2019;Zhang and Qi 2019).…”