1st Edition
Sustainable Management of Cordyceps Supply Chains and Resource Management Policies
This book examines the challenges of sustainably managing and conserving cordyceps, a rare species of fungi largely grown in Tibet, currently on the brink of extinction.
As one of the most expensive commodities in the world, particularly valued for its medicinal properties in China, the price of cordyceps have risen by over 900% since the 1970s. This has made it a very lucrative resource for farmers, many of whom are struggling to produce sufficient food to sustain themselves. Naturally this has led to over-harvesting and, coupled with the impacts of climate change, the crop itself is now at risk. Rarely discussed in Western literature, this book provides a novel examination of cordyceps, looking into the different ways and necessary changes needed to sustainably manage and conserve this important crop. Drawing on extensive field work conducted in Qinghai-Tibet, the book analyses the supply chain, identifying key issues around production and considering the role and impact of relevant stakeholders. It discusses the necessary changes needed in order to make it a sustainable supply change, particularly to stop long term over-harvesting. The book then discusses the role of policy and the institutional management of this resource in China, as one of the main producers and consumers. It analyses current policy instruments and argues for a more coherent policy which is better orientated towards conservation and sustainable management, rather than solely market regulation.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of natural resource management, environmental conservation, environmental policy and sustainable supply chain management.
Foreword by Lijian Zhang
Foreword by Huanguang Qiu
Introduction to the Book
Part I: Introduction to Cordyceps
Chapter 1 What Is Cordyceps?
Jiping Sheng, Mengyao Diao, Yiyuan Miao and Ksenia Gerasimova
Chapter 2. Medicinal Value and Use of Cordyceps
Jiping Sheng, Yiyuan Miao, Yiyun Wen, Yijing Xin, Shengming Shen and Ksenia Gerasimova
Part II: Supply Chains of Cordyceps sinensis Production
Chapter 3. The Where, Who and How in Collecting Wild Cordyceps in China
Jiping Sheng, Xinyi Xu, Yiyuan Miao, Lin Shen and Ksenia Gerasimova
Chapter 4. Trade of Raw Cordyceps: The Hui Middlemen and Tibetan Collectors Cooperatives
Jiping Sheng, Yiyuan Miao, Xinyi Xu, Lin Shen and Ksenia Gerasimova
Chapter 5. Cordyceps-Based Products and Its Consumers
Jiping Sheng, Huiqi Song, Yiyun Wen, Xinyi Xu and Shengye Shen
Chapter 6. International Dimensions of the Chinese Trade in Cordyceps sinsensis
Ksenia Gerasimova, Ekaterina Zueva and Jiping Sheng
Part III: Policies for Sustainable Management of Cordyceps sinensis
Chapter 7. Market Regulation of Cordyceps sinsensis
Jiping Sheng, Yijing Xin, Wenfan Su, Xinyi Xu and Lin Shen
Chapter 8. Cordyceps Quality Control Management in the Framework of the Chinese Food Safety Policy
Jiping Sheng, Wenfan Su, Xinyi Xu, Wenjie Long and Lin Shen
Chapter 9. Rural Land Reforms and management of Cordyceps in Qinghai: Lessons for Sustainability
Ksenia Gerasimova, Jiang Zhao and Jiping Sheng
Chapter 10. Climate Change and Chinese Conservation Policy
Jiping Sheng, Jiahao Shi, Shenghang Wang and Ksenia Gerasimova
Chapter 11. Poverty Alleviation and Wild Cordyceps sinsensis Collection
Jiping Sheng, Jinshuo Zhang and Ksenia Gerasimova
Conclusions and Further Policy Recommendations
Jiping Sheng and Ksenia Gerasimova
Biography
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).
