Launch Webinar | 2021 China and Global Food Policy Report
Compounding the long-term challenges facing the global agrifood system, the COVID-19 pandemic, beginning in 2020, has intensified food insecurity and malnutrition in many parts of the world. There is an urgent need to rethink of future food systems we would like to have. Future food systems must be transformed to achieve multiple goals including food and nutrition security for all, environmental sustainability and climate mitigation. The ongoing pandemic also highlighted the importance of resilience and inclusion as food systems are increasingly vulnerable to economic, health and natural shocks and poor people suffer unproportionately more from these shocks.
With its policy of “reform and opening up” over the past 40 years, China has become increasingly connected to the rest of the world through trade, investment, and south-south cooperation, and actively participates in global governance on issues related to agriculture and food security. Furthermore, despite rapid ascension, the voices of emerging economies including China are largely absent in setting the global food systems agenda.
Under this context, the China and Global Food Policy Report (CGFPR) is published to review Chinese policy developments and lessons related to its agricultural and food system, and to promote mutual understanding between China and the world.
The 2021 CGFPR focuses on the transformation of China’s agri-food system during the post-pandemic era, covering major topics including carbon neutrality, dietary transition, green transformation of agriculture, e-commerce and the small-scale farmer economy, and the challenges of agricultural trade reform. The report has been developed through a close collaboration of a number of research organizations applying multidisciplinary approaches to focus on China’s practices but with a global lens. This report is designed to provide a scientific, rigorous, and cutting-edge decision-making and research reference for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners who are concerned with both the Chinese and global agri-food systems transformation.
Please join the webinar via Zoom:
https://zoom.com.cn/j/66316579493?pwd=YXppMmdnNjA5TUZPNjd3TEJ2dWMzdz09
PDF report in Chinese:
http://agfep.cau.edu.cn/art/2021/4/30/art_39027_744843.html
The report is jointly prepared by: