Compounding the long-term challenges facing the global food security, the COVID-19 pandemic, extreme weather change, trade relationship between China and US, the ongoing Russia-Ukraine crisis has intensified food insecurity and malnutrition in both China and many parts of the world. Over the past 40 years, Chinese food and agricultural sector has become increasingly connected to the rest of the world through trade and investment. However, China's food security also faces challenges such as high foreign dependency and unstable supply chain due to varying trade restrictions due to by both domestic and international distorted policies. To secure food security, China needs to stabilize the supply chain resilience by means of expanding importing sources and building agriculture clusters. Therefore, repositioning food security from the aspect of supply chain resilience and agriculture cluster has become a vital issue in China. We hence propose the interest to launch a special issue on agriculture cluster, food/agriculture trade policy changes, supply chain resilience and food security in China.

Guest editors:

• Professor Shenggen Fan, China Agricultural University, Email: S.FAN@CGIAR.ORG

• Professor Faqin Lin, China Agricultural University, Email: linfaqin@cau.edu.cn 
  

Special issue information:

Chinese Economic Review, in collaboration with the Academy of Global Food Economics and Policy (AGFEP), a university-level research institute supported by the China Agricultural University, which is a leading center for academic and policy research on important economics and policy issues related to Chinese and global food and nutrition security plans to publish a special issue on “Agriculture cluster, supply chain resilience and food security in China ”. The organizers and guest editors welcome submission of theoretical and empirical papers in all fields of agriculture cluster, food/agriculture trade policy changes, supply chain resilience and food security in China.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

Agriculture cluster features in China

Investigating factors affecting agriculture cluster in China

Agriculture cluster and supply chain resilience/food security in China

Agriculture and food trade policy changes and impact in China and the world

FDI in agriculture and food sector and food security

Supply chain and global value chain in agriculture and food sector

Governance and food security in China and the world

Manuscript submission information:

Submission instructions

The Journal’s submission system is open for submissions to our Special Issue. When submitting your manuscript please select the article type “VSI:Agriculture cluster, trade and supply chain resilience”. Please submit your manuscript before 30th November 2024

The submission link is: https://www.editorialmanager.com/CHIECO/default.aspx

All submissions deemed suitable to be sent for peer review will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Once your manuscript is accepted, it will go into production, and will be simultaneously published in the current regular issue and pulled into the online Special Issue. Articles from this Special Issue will appear in different regular issues of the journal, though they will be clearly marked and branded as Special Issue articles.

Please see an example here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/china-economic-review 

Please ensure you read the Guide for Authors before writing your manuscript. The Guide for Authors and link to submit your manuscript is available on the Journal’s homepage at: 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/china-economic-review/publish/guide-for-authors

Submission deadline: 30th November 2024

Inquiries, including questions about appropriate topics, may be sent electronically to the guest editors: Shenggen Fan and Faqin Lin

Keywords:

agriculture cluster, agriculture trade，supply chain resilience，food security，China

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