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This book examines the challenges of sustainably managing and conserving cordyceps, a rare species of fungi largely grown in Tibet, on the brink of extinction. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of natural resource management, environmental conservation, environmental policy and sustainable supply chain management.
List of contents
Introduction;
Part I: Introduction to Cordyceps 1 What Is Cordyceps?; 2 Medicinal Value and Use of Cordyceps;
Part II: Supply Chains of Cordyceps sinensis 3 The Where, Who, and How in Collecting Wild Cordyceps in China; 4 Trade of Raw Cordyceps: The Hui Middlemen and Tibetan Collectors Cooperatives; 5 Cordyceps-Based Products and Their Consumers; 6 International Dimensions of the Chinese Trade in
Cordyceps sinsensis;
Part III: Policies for Sustainable Management of Cordyceps sinensis 7 Market Regulation of
Cordyceps sinsensis; 8 Cordyceps Quality Control Management in the Framework of the Chinese Food Safety Policy; 9 Rural Land Reforms and management of Cordyceps in Qinghai: Lessons for Sustainability; 10 Climate Change and Chinese Conservation Policy; 11 Poverty Alleviation and Wild
Cordyceps sinsensis Collection; Conclusions and Further Policy Recommendations
About the author
Jiping Sheng is a Professor in Food Economics and Management and Food Science at Renmin University of China. She has been working in these fields for nearly 30 years with more than two hundred papers and twenty books published.
Ksenia Gerasimova is a Professor in Public Policy at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, and is CEENRG Fellow in Land Economy at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is the author of
NGO Discourses in the Debates on Genetically Modified Crops (Routledge, 2017).
Summary
This book examines the challenges of sustainably managing and conserving cordyceps, a rare species of fungi largely grown in Tibet, on the brink of extinction. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of natural resource management, environmental conservation, environmental policy and sustainable supply chain management.
