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Resilience and Sustainability in Agricultural and Food Systems

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 10257

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Hongmin Qin

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Guest Editor
Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, TX 77843, USA
Interests: insect resistant plant; crape myrtle bark scale; cell biology of algae
Dr. Yu Yvette Zhang

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Guest Editor
Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, TX 77843, USA
Interests: sustainable agriculture; bioeconomics; food economics; ecology; environmental economics; behavioral economics; agricultural economics

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Climate change, increase in international trade, population growth, and intensifying human activities present great challenges to the world’s agricultural and food system.

Building a resilient and sustainable agricultural system is a critical issue worldwide for agriculture and food security, plant and environmental protection, and economic growth. The discovery and expansion of plant diseases and invasive pest insects has raised concerns regarding potential damages to ecosystems. The increasing reliance on hazardous synthetic pesticides and toxic chemicals not only is economically costly but also poses risks to the environment and human health. This special issue is seeking original research and reviews on the impacts of climate change and international trade on ecology and food supply chains, biophysical and biochemical mechanisms underlying plant diseases and pest insect invasion, plant disease and pest management, plant protection, plant pathology, sustainability of agricultural production, food safety and security, and the relevant ecological, environmental, and economic issues.

Dr. Hongmin Qin
Dr. Yu Yvette Zhang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • plant diseases
  • plant protection
  • plant pathology
  • plant ecology
  • pest managment
  • pest insects
  • invasive species
  • sustainable agriculture
  • environmental protection
  • food safety
  • food security
  • agricultural production
  • food supply chain
  • agricultural economics

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Impacts of Crapemyrtle Bark Scale on Consumers and the Horticulture Industry
by Pulkit Marwah, Yu Yvette Zhang and Mengmeng Gu
Sustainability 2022, 14(3), 1857; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031857 - 6 Feb 2022
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In this study, we conducted a nationwide online survey, including discrete choice scenarios, to understand consumers’ purchasing behavior for flowering trees and shrubs for home landscapes in the US. In particular, we studied crapemyrtle, which is the most popular summer flowering tree in [...] Read more.
In this study, we conducted a nationwide online survey, including discrete choice scenarios, to understand consumers’ purchasing behavior for flowering trees and shrubs for home landscapes in the US. In particular, we studied crapemyrtle, which is the most popular summer flowering tree in the US. This research evaluates the change in consumer willingness to pay for crapemyrtle plants due to pest infestation damage. Our study showed that the consumer willingness to pay (WTP) for crapemyrtles will decrease, due to the changes in their attributes, such as flower density and bark color, if infested by crapemyrtle bark scale (CMBS). We also analyzed the effect of consumers’ personal characteristics, including their risk attitude, on their willingness to pay for crapemyrtle plants. Full article
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The Impacts of Agricultural Trade on Economic Growth and Environmental Pollution: Evidence from Bangladesh Using ARDL in the Presence of Structural Breaks
by Amogh Ghimire, Feiting Lin and Peifen Zhuang
Sustainability 2021, 13(15), 8336; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158336 - 26 Jul 2021
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Agricultural trade significantly promotes the economic boom in developing countries. Extensive traditional agricultural production methods have increased the pressure on the agricultural environment by expanding agricultural trade, which has attracted the attention of many scholars. This study aims to empirically examine the impacts [...] Read more.
Agricultural trade significantly promotes the economic boom in developing countries. Extensive traditional agricultural production methods have increased the pressure on the agricultural environment by expanding agricultural trade, which has attracted the attention of many scholars. This study aims to empirically examine the impacts of agricultural trade on economic growth and agricultural environmental pollution in Bangladesh from 1972 to 2019, using an Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model with a structural break to examine the long-run and short-run determinants of agricultural environmental pollution in Bangladesh. The ARDL bounds analysis methodology showed that it does not support the hypothesis that agricultural trade led to environmental pollution in the long-run. The results suggest a relationship between economic growth, energy, and FDI towards agricultural environmental pollution, indicating a positive long-run relationship. Furthermore, in the short run, agricultural trade indicates positive drivers towards agricultural environmental pollution. Therefore, it is recommended that the enhancement of trade liberalization policies should ensure cleaner technologies and products that could help reduce environmental pollution. Full article
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Spillover Effect of FDI on Food Exports: Based on Firm-Level Analysis in China
by Yue Jin, Chen Chen and Zhanyi Shi
Sustainability 2021, 13(9), 4818; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13094818 - 25 Apr 2021
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This paper examines the spillover effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on Chinese domestic food exports under firm heterogeneity. By using a rich firm-level panel data of China’s food firms, the empirical analyses rely on the first-order difference generalized method of moments (GMM) [...] Read more.
This paper examines the spillover effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on Chinese domestic food exports under firm heterogeneity. By using a rich firm-level panel data of China’s food firms, the empirical analyses rely on the first-order difference generalized method of moments (GMM) for industry-level analysis, and Heckman’s two-stage method for firm-level analysis. The results show that the horizontal FDI led to a positive spillover effect on domestic food industry exports, varying across food subindustries. The paper also finds that a large part of the promotion effect is driven through extensive margin (the probability to export) instead of intensive margin (the quantities of exports) in firm-level analysis. The heterogeneous export spillovers across food firms are further considered to depend on their nature characteristics, like productivity, size, and ownership. Moreover, the heterogeneities of FDI origins and business purpose are confirmed to influence export spillovers. The estimation results are quite robust for different types of regression specifications and substitutions of variable measurement. These findings provide suggestions for decision-makers to carefully assess the impact of FDI and make policy for the sustainable development of domestic food exports. Full article
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