2009
DOI: 10.1017/s174217050999024x
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Green food industry in China: development, problems and policies

Abstract: Organic food is the development trend of food in the world today. China's green food is a kind of food with pollution-free, safety, high-quality and nutritious properties, similar to organic food in the international market. The Chinese government has paid attention to the sustainable development of agro-ecosystems under the pressures of population growth and agricultural expansion since the 1980s and began to develop a green food industry in 1990. After the development of about two decades, now the Chinese gr… Show more

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“…More than 20 provinces have formulated 'Measures for Green Food Management' and 'Measures for Administration of Green Food Labelling'. The export value (90% under the AA grade) increased from 71 million USD in 1997 to 2140 million USD in 2007 (Lin et al, 2010).…”
Section: Organics and Agro-ecological Experiments In Chinamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…More than 20 provinces have formulated 'Measures for Green Food Management' and 'Measures for Administration of Green Food Labelling'. The export value (90% under the AA grade) increased from 71 million USD in 1997 to 2140 million USD in 2007 (Lin et al, 2010).…”
Section: Organics and Agro-ecological Experiments In Chinamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In China, the enterprise scale of the food industry is generally small, and these small-sized enterprises need much more capital investment to achieve technological innovation and improvements in energy use efficiency (Lin et al, 2010). Therefore, policy action should be taken to accelerate the food industry cluster so as to achieve a drop in energy intensity and an abatement of CO 2 emission.…”
Section: Accepted Manuscriptmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Some Chinese scholars have pointed to robust marketing networks as a key determinant of success for OVOP villages (Lei, 2012;Wu, 2006), and network building was an important part of OVOP in Japan (Haraguchi, 2008;Kemavuthanon, 2014;Knight, 1994). One common channel in China includes the government's standards for organic, green, and hazard-free products, which were established in the 1990s to signal product quality and command higher prices (Lin, Zhou, & Ma, 2010;Scott, Si, Schumilas, & Chen, 2014;Thiers, 2002). But high certification costs and low levels of trust and awareness have handicapped these standards and excluded many small producers (Lin, Zhou, & Ma 2010;Scott et al, 2014;Shi, Cheng, Lei, Wen, & Merrifield, 2011).…”
Section: Networkmentioning
confidence: 99%