Agricultural Ecosystem in China: A Case-based Practitioner’s Perspective

Abstract

Although sustainable agriculture and food systems have appeared to start generating increasing
scholarly and policy-maker interest since the 1950s (Pretty, 2008), the very idea creating some
level of sustainability in agriculture can be traced back to ancient writings in China (Li, 2001).
Despite scholarly and policy efforts, the growing population which in turn results in increasing
demands for food and other agricultural products while minimising potentially negative
impacts on earth and the environment has remained as a major challenge for this century
(Godfray et al., 2010; Sanaullah et al. 2020). With the growing literature on agricultural
ecosystems and sustainability in farming, and despite practitioners being an important of the
community, there has been insufficient discussion on the practitioners’ views grounded in
experiences. Accordingly, this paper provides an account of case-based practitioner’s
experiences in China.