This is the complete NewsRx® article.By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Agriculture Week -- Researchers detail new data in Sustainability Research. According to news reporting from Heilongjiang, People’s Republic of China, by VerticalNews editors, the research stated, “Food security is increasingly influenced by multilateral trade systems and foreign trade policies implemented by national governments. Many of them are now concerned about the sustainability of food supply and the vulnerability of domestic food markets to price volatility, and seek to support domestic producers and protect themselves from increasing food imports.”
The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Harbin Engineering University, “Such restrictions improve food self-sufficiency, but decrease food security. It is important to understand any changes that may have occurred in the food consumption pattern due to trade protectionism and to observe any nutritional implications of these changes. This paper employs the rational food security (RFS) assessment approach, which differentiates sources of food supply on the domestic market, assesses the influence of agricultural and trade frameworks on food consumption patterns, and complies consumption with the appropriate food intake threshold. In the case of Russia, the study demonstrates that the conventional consumption approach to self-sufficiency (FSCA) underestimates the food insecurity level by not accounting for nutrition factors. In addition, the gap between the FSCA and the RFS increases in times of protectionist trade policy and decreases when the agricultural and trade policy framework turns to liberalization.”
According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “The paper concludes that trade protectionism challenges the sustainability of food supply by decreasing food availability and quality of food products, causes dietary changes, and threatens the food security of the country.”
For more information on this research see: Self-Sufficiency versus Security: How Trade Protectionism Challenges the Sustainability of the Food Supply in Russia. Sustainability , 2017;9(11):420-436. Sustainability can be contacted at: Mdpi Ag, St Alban-Anlage 66, Ch-4052 Basel, Switzerland. (Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. - www.liebertpub.com; Sustainability - http://www.liebertpub.com/overview/sustainability-the-journal-of-record/252/)
Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting V. Erokhin, Harbin Engn Univ, Sch Econ & Management, Harbin 150001, Heilongjiang, People’s Republic of China.
The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.3390/su9111939. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.
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CITATION: (2017-12-28), New Findings Reported from Harbin Engineering University Describe Advances in Sustainability Research (Self-Sufficiency versus Security: How Trade Protectionism Challenges the Sustainability of the Food Supply in Russia), Agriculture Week, 206, ISSN: 1938-1794, BUTTER® ID: 014906282
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