International trade serves as a crucial pathway for enhancing global food security and equality amid severe food crises worldwide.Under globalization,economic development has profoundly influenced food trade,while dis...International trade serves as a crucial pathway for enhancing global food security and equality amid severe food crises worldwide.Under globalization,economic development has profoundly influenced food trade,while disparities in food purchasing power among different economic development groups have led to uneven food security outcomes.However,the varying contributions of international trade to food security across these groups remain to be quantitatively elucidated.This study categorized countries into four economic development groups—high,high-medium,medium-low,and low—and examined changes in their food security scores from 2010 to 2019.The cross-group contributions of international trade to food security across these groups were compared.The results revealed that the food security score of the high economic development group was 9.22 times higher than that of the low economic development group.From 2010 to 2019,the high economic development group exhibited a significant upward trend in food security scores,whereas the low economic development group showed a significant decline.Moreover,international trade contributed significantly to both cross-group and within-group food security in the high economic development group,while its contribution to the low economic development group remained negligible.These findings demonstrated that international trade has further widened the food security gap between the high and low economic development groups,and its limited contribution to the low economic development group has failed to reverse the declining trend in their food security scores.This study quantified the divergent impacts of international trade on food security across economic development groups,providing valuable insights for optimizing global food trade policies—particularly in addressing the food security challenges faced by low econominc development group.展开更多
This paper expands Prasenjit Duara’s proposal that Asian religions and philosophies offer hope for a sustainable future.After outlining Duara’s sociology of history that describes the crisis of global modernity in t...This paper expands Prasenjit Duara’s proposal that Asian religions and philosophies offer hope for a sustainable future.After outlining Duara’s sociology of history that describes the crisis of global modernity in terms of three global changes,namely the rise of non-western nations,the crisis of climate change,and the decline of religious or transcendent sources of authority,Duara proposes that grassroots organizations coupled with Asian religious and philosophical beliefs and practices offer different ways of understanding the relationship between the person and the environment,and between our universal-planetary interests and our national interests.Drawing from Asian and Pacific indigenous teachings,I propose a type of depth ecology called“existential parity”that all things and creatures have value,generating a moral corollary called the“existential commitment”that humans take responsibility for the environment and each other.The existential commitment offers an environmental ethics that promotes sustainable agriculture to feed the world’s population.Pacific agroforestry practices can be implemented in urban settings to help mitigate climate change and food shortages.展开更多
India’s temporary duty-free window for cotton imports has officially closed,with the government reinstating an 11%import tariff effective January 1,2026.The tax exemption,which expired on December 31,2025 without ext...India’s temporary duty-free window for cotton imports has officially closed,with the government reinstating an 11%import tariff effective January 1,2026.The tax exemption,which expired on December 31,2025 without extension,marks a return to the previous tariff framework-a policy shift expected to raise costs for the domestic textile industry and potentially trigger ripple effects across global cotton trade.展开更多
药用芳香植物(medicinal and aromatic plants,MAPs)是全球医疗保健系统的重要基础,其国际贸易规模庞大、物种数量众多、经济价值显著,已有超过1,300种药用芳香植物被列入《濒危野生动植物种国际贸易公约》(Convention on International...药用芳香植物(medicinal and aromatic plants,MAPs)是全球医疗保健系统的重要基础,其国际贸易规模庞大、物种数量众多、经济价值显著,已有超过1,300种药用芳香植物被列入《濒危野生动植物种国际贸易公约》(Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora,CITES)(蒋志刚,2004;Roe,2008;UNODC,2016)。有效监管这些野生植物及其衍生产品的国际贸易,对于生物多样性保护以及资源的可持续利用具有至关重要的作用(CITES Secretariat,2022;何拓等,2024)。展开更多
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grants No.42361144888 and 42401308)National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2024YFF1309200).
文摘International trade serves as a crucial pathway for enhancing global food security and equality amid severe food crises worldwide.Under globalization,economic development has profoundly influenced food trade,while disparities in food purchasing power among different economic development groups have led to uneven food security outcomes.However,the varying contributions of international trade to food security across these groups remain to be quantitatively elucidated.This study categorized countries into four economic development groups—high,high-medium,medium-low,and low—and examined changes in their food security scores from 2010 to 2019.The cross-group contributions of international trade to food security across these groups were compared.The results revealed that the food security score of the high economic development group was 9.22 times higher than that of the low economic development group.From 2010 to 2019,the high economic development group exhibited a significant upward trend in food security scores,whereas the low economic development group showed a significant decline.Moreover,international trade contributed significantly to both cross-group and within-group food security in the high economic development group,while its contribution to the low economic development group remained negligible.These findings demonstrated that international trade has further widened the food security gap between the high and low economic development groups,and its limited contribution to the low economic development group has failed to reverse the declining trend in their food security scores.This study quantified the divergent impacts of international trade on food security across economic development groups,providing valuable insights for optimizing global food trade policies—particularly in addressing the food security challenges faced by low econominc development group.
文摘This paper expands Prasenjit Duara’s proposal that Asian religions and philosophies offer hope for a sustainable future.After outlining Duara’s sociology of history that describes the crisis of global modernity in terms of three global changes,namely the rise of non-western nations,the crisis of climate change,and the decline of religious or transcendent sources of authority,Duara proposes that grassroots organizations coupled with Asian religious and philosophical beliefs and practices offer different ways of understanding the relationship between the person and the environment,and between our universal-planetary interests and our national interests.Drawing from Asian and Pacific indigenous teachings,I propose a type of depth ecology called“existential parity”that all things and creatures have value,generating a moral corollary called the“existential commitment”that humans take responsibility for the environment and each other.The existential commitment offers an environmental ethics that promotes sustainable agriculture to feed the world’s population.Pacific agroforestry practices can be implemented in urban settings to help mitigate climate change and food shortages.
文摘India’s temporary duty-free window for cotton imports has officially closed,with the government reinstating an 11%import tariff effective January 1,2026.The tax exemption,which expired on December 31,2025 without extension,marks a return to the previous tariff framework-a policy shift expected to raise costs for the domestic textile industry and potentially trigger ripple effects across global cotton trade.
文摘药用芳香植物(medicinal and aromatic plants,MAPs)是全球医疗保健系统的重要基础,其国际贸易规模庞大、物种数量众多、经济价值显著,已有超过1,300种药用芳香植物被列入《濒危野生动植物种国际贸易公约》(Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora,CITES)(蒋志刚,2004;Roe,2008;UNODC,2016)。有效监管这些野生植物及其衍生产品的国际贸易,对于生物多样性保护以及资源的可持续利用具有至关重要的作用(CITES Secretariat,2022;何拓等,2024)。
