Transformations in China's food system -- Top-down initiatives: state support for ecological and organic agriculture in China -- The farmers' cooperative model in China's ecological agriculture sector -- Bottom-up initiatives: the emergence of alternative food networks -- Economic, ecological and interpersonal dimensions of alternative food networks -- Farmers' markets as contested spaces: case study of the Beijing organic farmers' market -- Promising community organizing in China's AFNs -- Rural development initiatives amid food safety crisis: strategies, challenges and opportunities in the "new rural reconstruction movement" in China
