A Research on the Evaluation of China’s Food Security under the Perspective of Sustainable Development—Based on an Entropy Weight TOPSIS Model

Xiaoyun Zhang, Yu Wang, Jie Bao, Tengda Wei () and Shiwei Xu ()
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Xiaoyun Zhang: Agricultural Information Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing 100081, China
Yu Wang: Agricultural Information Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing 100081, China
Jie Bao: Agricultural Information Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing 100081, China
Tengda Wei: College of Economics and Management, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
Shiwei Xu: Agricultural Information Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing 100081, China

Agriculture, 2022, vol. 12, issue 11, 1-19

Abstract: Food safety is an important basis for promoting economic development, ensuring social stability and maintaining national security. Research on the evaluation of food security is the basis by which to accurately grasp the food security situation and to establish national food security policies in a scientific manner. Based on China’s agricultural economic data from 2001 to 2020, this research uses an entropy weight TOPSIS model to start from the new connotations and goals of food security in the new development stage, takes quantity security, structural security, ecological security of resources, economic security and policy security as the breakthrough points, builds a food security evaluation system containing 25 indicators, and aims to conduct evaluation and research on the evolution and current situation of China’s food security. The results show that China’s food security level drops first and then rises, that China attaches increasing importance to the ecological security and policy security of food resources, and that China’s food security level is restricted by such factors as resources, modes of production, circulation, storage, transportation, trade and structure. This article puts forward some policies and suggestions in terms of resources, technology and foreign trade to safeguard China’s food security.

Keywords: food security; sustainable development; indicator system; evaluation; entropy weight TOPSIS model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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