Development of Russian Economy’s Self-sufficiency in the Face of Global Challenges

2018 ◽  
pp. 1013-1025
Author(s):  
Alexey Tsikin
Keyword(s):  
Global Challenges ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The Face

Produce Internationally, Consume Locally

2020 ◽  
pp. 273-295
Author(s):  
Vasilii Erokhin
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Food Market ◽  
New Challenges

China is one of the world's biggest importers of agricultural products. Until quite recently, China's agricultural policy focused on food self-sufficiency. Globalizing trade in agricultural commodities, however, has brought new challenges to establishing secure supply and achieving security rather than self-sufficiency. In the face of emerging trade tensions with the USA, one of China's responses to the emerging volatility of the global market is to expand production facilities abroad and thus diversify deliveries. This chapter discusses how China's Belt and Road Initiative may serve improving food security of the country by establishing of a predictable system of agricultural production and trade across Eurasia, particularly, with the involvement of land-abundant Russia and the countries of Central Asia. The author explores possible responses to emerging threats to China's domestic food market by elaborating an approach to theoretical definitions and practical issues of ensurance of food security and adaptation of China's policy to contemporary global challenges.

Produce Internationally, Consume Locally

2021 ◽  
pp. 926-947
Author(s):  
Vasilii Erokhin
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Food Market ◽  
New Challenges

China is one of the world's biggest importers of agricultural products. Until quite recently, China's agricultural policy focused on food self-sufficiency. Globalizing trade in agricultural commodities, however, has brought new challenges to establishing secure supply and achieving security rather than self-sufficiency. In the face of emerging trade tensions with the USA, one of China's responses to the emerging volatility of the global market is to expand production facilities abroad and thus diversify deliveries. This chapter discusses how China's Belt and Road Initiative may serve improving food security of the country by establishing of a predictable system of agricultural production and trade across Eurasia, particularly, with the involvement of land-abundant Russia and the countries of Central Asia. The author explores possible responses to emerging threats to China's domestic food market by elaborating an approach to theoretical definitions and practical issues of ensurance of food security and adaptation of China's policy to contemporary global challenges.

scholarly journals Formulating Modes of Cooperative Leaning for Education for Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3465
Author(s):  
Jordi Colomer ◽  
Dolors Cañabate ◽  
Brigita Stanikūnienė ◽  
Remigijus Bubnys
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
The Face ◽  
Contemporary Education ◽  
The Impact

In the face of today’s global challenges, the practice and theory of contemporary education inevitably focuses on developing the competences that help individuals to find meaningfulness in their societal and professional life, to understand the impact of local actions on global processes and to enable them to solve real-life problems [...]

Finance in the face of global challenges

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora Pankratz
Keyword(s):  
Global Challenges ◽  
The Face

The adaptive capacity of rural crafts in the face of global challenges

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-112
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Pacheco Contreras
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Capacity ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
The Face

scholarly journals How Effective Is Spatial Planning for Cropland Protection? An Assessment Based on Land-Use Scenarios

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Silvia Tobias ◽  
Bronwyn Price
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Scenario Modeling ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Land Use Scenarios ◽  
The Face

Spatial planning plays an important role in cropland protection, but its effectiveness is often questioned in the face of ongoing urban and infrastructure growth. Moreover, methods to assess the effectiveness of spatial planning are lacking. In Switzerland, the revision of the national spatial planning act in 2014 was a new starting point for stricter prescriptions on urban development. We assessed whether the new regulations would better protect dedicated prime cropland from conversion to urban areas using land-use suitability models and land-use scenarios. The findings show that with the planning according to the revised planning act, the potential consumption of prime cropland for new urban areas is six times smaller than that occurring through extrapolation of the observed trend in urban development over the past 25 years. However, scenario modeling suggests that, still, more prime cropland will be converted into urban areas than necessary, and that it may be difficult to protect prime cropland to the extent mandated by the Swiss prime cropland protection policy. We have developed an approach to a priori evaluate spatial planning measures. However, the strict implementation of these planning measures will be needed in order to maintain prime cropland to a level required for agricultural self-sufficiency and food security.

Self-Trust and Epistemic Humility

Humility ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 325-353
Author(s):  
C. Thi Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Special Kind ◽  
Cognitive Domains ◽  
Intellectual Autonomy ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Epistemic Humility ◽  
Good Account ◽  
The Face ◽  
Radical Intellectual

Some cognitive domains, like the moral, aesthetic, and religious, seem to demand a special kind of intellectual autonomy. We should, it is thought, think for ourselves and not trust others. This call for autonomy seems to support a radical intellectual self-sufficiency. In particular, the fact that our peers disagree with us can be disregarded by the fully intellectually self-sufficient person. I argue against radical intellectual self-sufficiency. I argue, instead, that our basis for self-trust in these domains should also extend to trusting others. So long as we do not have a good account of our own reliability in these domains, our general cognitive similarity to others ought to lead us to weight their testimony, and so weight their disagreement. We should be epistemically humble in the face of disagreement. Furthermore, epistemic humility here is a form of intellectual autonomy, for we discover the evidence of disagreement and think through its consequences for ourselves.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONSORTIUM: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS IN THE FACE OF GLOBAL CHALLENGES

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. G. Popkova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
The Face

В статье показана востребованность консорциума устойчивого развития для успешной адаптации российских университетов к новым предъявляемым к ним требованиям в контексте реализации целей устойчивого развития. Обозначена роль консорциума устойчивого развития в научном ответе на большие вызовы современности. Отражены основные направления деятельности консорциума устойчивого развития и ключевые достигнутые им результаты, включая создание фреймворков, разработку датасетов, проведение датасет-исследований и укрепление позиций российских вузов в университетских рейтингах

Rice in the Time of Sugar

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis A. Pérez Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Rice Production ◽  
Cuban Revolution ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Sugar Trade ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Government ◽  
Food Imports ◽  
The U.S

How did Cuba’s long-established sugar trade result in the development of an agriculture that benefited consumers abroad at the dire expense of Cubans at home? In this history of Cuba, Louis A. Pérez proposes a new Cuban counterpoint: rice, a staple central to the island’s cuisine, and sugar, which dominated an export economy 150 years in the making. In the dynamic between the two, dependency on food imports—a signal feature of the Cuban economy—was set in place. Cuban efforts to diversify the economy through expanded rice production were met with keen resistance by U.S. rice producers, who were as reliant on the Cuban market as sugar growers were on the U.S. market. U.S. growers prepared to retaliate by cutting the sugar quota in a struggle to control Cuban rice markets. Pérez’s chronicle culminates in the 1950s, a period of deepening revolutionary tensions on the island, as U.S. rice producers and their allies in Congress clashed with Cuban producers supported by the government of Fulgencio Batista. U.S. interests prevailed—a success, Pérez argues, that contributed to undermining Batista’s capacity to govern. Cuba’s inability to develop self-sufficiency in rice production persists long after the triumph of the Cuban revolution. Cuba continues to import rice, but, in the face of the U.S. embargo, mainly from Asia. U.S. rice growers wait impatiently to recover the Cuban market.

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