Conference presentations

In 2019:

  • Steffanie Scott. 2019. “10 things we could learn from China about food security & sustainable food systems” Faculty of Environment Lecture Series, UW, November 28.
  • Steffanie Scott. 2019. “Towards Diversified Agroecological Systems in China.” Presentation at Sino-American Symposium on Future Issues Affecting Quality of Life, Western Michigan University, May 4-5.
  • Steffanie Scott. 2019. “Towards Diversified Agroecological Systems in China.” Presentation at the Sixth Organic Farming Training and Workshop, Nanjing Agricultural University, Apr 19-21.
  • Zhenzhong Si, Taiyang Zhong, Seffanie Scott. 2019. “Achieving urban food securiy through a public-private hybrid food distribution system: A case study of Nanjing, China.” The 14h Annual Assembly of Canadian Associaion for Food Studies. Universiy of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, June 2-5.
  • Seffanie Scott and Zhenzhong Si. 2019. “Using agroecology to advance sustainable development goals in China: Pathways of transition towards a sustainable food system,” Presentation at the 14th Annual Assembly of Canadian Association for Food Studies Conference, Vancouver, Canada, June 2-5.
  • Zhenzhong Si. 2019. “The alernativeness of alternative food networks and its new development”. Sociology Youh Forum of Zhejiang Universiy, Hangzhou, China, May 4-5.
  • Zhenzhong Si and Seffanie Scott. 2019. “Opimizing agroecology solutions to achieve he SDGs in China”. Scaling Ou Agroecology Practices in China Conference, Nanjing Universiy, Nanjing, China, April 27-28.

In 2018:

  • Steffanie Scott and Zhenzhong Si. 2018. “Using Agroecology to Advance Sustainable Development Goals in China.” Presentation at Place-Based Food Systems Conference, Vancouver, Aug 9-10.
  • Danshu Qi. 2018. “Engaging rural farmers in ecological agriculture: comparing two cases of ecological farms in Nanjing, China”. Presented at Place-based food system conference. Aug 9-10.
  • Ning. Dai. 2018. “Urbanites in the Countryside: Socio-economic Barriers of New Farmers to the Establishment of Ecological Farms in Nanjing, China.” Place-based Food Systems Conference. Vancouver, Canada. August 9-10.
  • Danshu Qi. 2018. “Formality or Informality? The roles of social networks in facilitating ecological agriculture in Nanjing, China ” . Presented at Pre-conference session, World Congress of Sociology. July 14.
  • Zhenzhong Si. 2018. “Characterizing wet market food vendors in the urban food system of Nanjing”. International Conference on Urbanization, Food Systems and Sustainability in the Global South. Waterloo, Canada. July 3-4.
  • Jodi Koberinski, Zhenzhong Si, and S. Scott. 2018. “Food Safety and Urban Food Security in Cities of the Global South.” International Conference on Urbanization, Food Systems and Sustainability in the Global South, Waterloo, July 3-4.
  • Ning Dai. 2018. “From Overt Opposition to Covert Cooperation: Compensatory Governance of Street Food Vending in Nanjing, China.” International Conference on Urbanization, Food Systems and Sustainability in the Global South. Waterloo, Canada. July 3-4.
  • Alesandros Glaros and S. Scott. 2018. “Attitudes and Agriculture: Barriers to blending values and practices in the design of novel urban foodscapes.” Presentation at the Joint Annual Meeting of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society. Madison, WI, June 13-16.
  • Steffanie Scott, Danshu Qi, and Zhenzhong Si, Ning Dai. 2018. “China’s Changing Food System.” Video (11 mins) presented at the Canadian Association for Food Studies Conference, Regina, May 27-29.
  • Danshu Qi and Steffaine Scott. 2018. “Towards Strong Ecological Modernization of Agriculture: the Role of Social Economy in Nanjing, China.” Presentation at the Canadian Association for Food Studies Conference, Regina, May 27-29.
  • Ning Dai. 2018. “Cooperative Governance in China’s Transforming Informal Food Retail Sector--Case Study of Street Food Vendors in Nanjing, China.” Canadian Association of Food Studies Conference in the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences. Regina, Canada. May 27-29.
  • Danshu Qi. 2018. “Conceptualizing ecological agriculture with ecological modernization theory: a case study in Nanjing, China”. Canadian Association of Food Studies Conference in the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences. Regina, Canada.May 27-29.
  • Jonathan Crush, Godfrey Tawodzera, Zhenzhong Si. 2018. “The supermarket revolution revisited: Food system insights from Cape Town, South Africa and Nanjing, China”. International Development Research Centre Seminar. Ottawa, Canada. June 19.

In 2017:

  • Zhenzhong Si. 2017. “The lock-in factors of industrial agriculture in China: An overview of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainability-Food report”. Workshop on Community-Academics Partnership for Sustainable Food System in China. Beijing, China. August 15-16.
  • Steffanie Scott. 2017. “Strengthening Alliances for Diversified Agroecological Systems in China.” Presentation at the Building Community-University Partnerships for Sustainable Food Systems workshop. Renmin University, Beijing, Aug 15-16.
  • Steffanie Scott. 2017. “Towards Diversified Agroecological Systems in China.” Presentation at the Conference of Chinese Society of Ecology--Agroecology and Ecological Agriculture Commission [keynote address]. Yan’an, China, Aug. 10-13.
  • Zhenzhong Si. 2017. “The outcomes and lock-in factors of industrial agriculture in China”. The Conference of Chinese Agroecology and Ecological Agriculture. Yan’an, China. August 10-13.
  • Ning Dai. 2017. “How Can Civil Society Change Food? An Analysis of Consumers as Food Citizens.” The Conference of Chinese Agroecology and Ecological Agriculture. Yan’an, China. August 10-13.
  • Danshu Qi. 2017. “What Opportunities are Created by Ecological Farmers? Chinese Alternative Food System in Action". The 18th Conference of Chinese Agroecology and Ecological Agriculture. Yan’an, China. August 10-13.
  • Zhenzhong Si. 2017. “Meeting the challenges of food security and food safety in China”. Cross-sector Collaboration Workshop. Beijing, China. August 7-9.
  • Alesandros Glaros and Steffanie Scott. 2017. “Perspectives on the Resilience of High-tech Urban Agriculture in Canadian Cities.” Presentation at the Canadian Association for Food Studies Conference, Toronto, May 28-30.
  • Danshu Qi. 2017. “The New Farmers Shaping the Ecological Food Sector in Nanjing, China." Presentation at the Canadian Association for Food Studies Conference, Toronto, May 28-30.
  • Zhenzhong Si. 2017. “Urban household food security and food safety perceptions in Nanjing, China: Hungry Cities Partnership survey results”. Hungry Cities Partnership Workshop in Nanjing: Wet Market and Urban Food System. Nanjing, China. January 12.

In 2016:

  • Steffanie Scott, Zhenzhong Si, Danshu Qi, and Ning Dai. 2016. “Initiatives for Sustainable Food System and Ecological Agriculture in China.” Lecture to Petro China Group. Waterloo, Canada. December 7.
  • Ning , Dai and Danshu, Qi. 2016. “Characterizing the Ecological Modernization of Agriculture in China: Policy Analysis and Case Study of Nanjing”. Waterloo Food Issues Group roundtable discussion. Waterloo, Canada. November.
  • Ning Dai. 2016. “At the forefront of sustainable transition: ingenuity and dilemmas of new organic farmers in Nanjing, China.” Canadian Association of Geographers-Ontario Division (CAGONT). Waterloo, Canada. October 28-29.
  • Danshu Qi. 2016. “Evaluating the Opportunities to Develop Organic Agriculture On the Governmental Level: A Case Study in Nanjing, China”. Canadian Association of Geographers-Ontario Division (CAGONT). Waterloo, Canada. October 28-29.
  • Steffanie Scott, Zhenzhong Si, and Taiyang Zhong. 2016. “What can cities do for food, and what can food do for cities? Rethinking urban planning in China through a food systems lens.” Presentation at the International Geographical Congress, Beijing, Aug. 21-25.
  • Zhenzhong Si. 2016. “Perceptions and coping strategies of food safety challenges in Nanjing, China”. The 33rd International Geographical Congress. Beijing, China. August 21-25.
  • Danshu Qi. 2016. “Understanding Community Building and its Impacts on Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Farms in China”. The 33rd International Geographical Congress. Beijing, China. August 21-25.
  • Ning , Dai (2016): “Analysis of a Shifting Regulatory Environment for Street Food Vendors in Nanjing, China”. The 33rd International Geographical Congress, Beijing, China. August 21-25.
  • Steffanie Scott and Zhenzhong Si*. 2016. “The Relevance of a Sustainable Food Systems Approach for Understanding Food Security in China.” International Rural Sociology Congress, Toronto, Aug. 10-14.
  • Zhenzhong Si. 2016. “Food safety in daily lives: Perceptions and coping strategies of urban residents in Nanjing, China”. The XIV World Congress of Rural Sociology. Toronto, Canada. August 10-14.
  • Steffanie Scott. 2016. Invited panelist for the book review panel discussion on Pierluigi Milone, Flaminia Ventura, Jingzhong Ye (eds.), Constructing a New Framework for Rural Development. International Rural Sociology Congress, Toronto, Aug. 10-14.
  • Zhenzhong Si, Steffanie Scott, and Cameron McCordic 2016. “Wet markets, supermarkets and food patronage in Nanjing, China”. Hungry Cities Partnership Workshop on Urbanization and Food Security in the Global South. Waterloo, Canada. July 18.
  • Steffanie Scott, Zhenzhong Si, and Taiyang Zhong. 2016. “The State of Urban Food Security in Nanjing, China.” Presentation at the Canadian Association for Food Studies Conference, Toronto, Ontario, June 22-26.
  • Steffanie Scott, Zhenzhong Si, and Jenelle Regnier-Davies. 2016. “Approaching sustainable urban development in China through a food system planning lens,” Presentation at the Canadian Association for Food Studies Conference, Toronto, Ontario, June 22-26.
  • Danshu Qi, Steffanie Scott, and Ning Dai. 2016. “The Power of Individuals in Shaping the Production System of Ecological Agriculture: A Case Study in Nanjing, China.” Presentation at the Canadian Association for Food Studies Conference, Toronto, May 28-30.
  • Danshu Qi. 2016. “New Ways to Inclusive Development: Exploring Ecological Food Sectors in Nanjing”. Presented at Waterloo Food Issues Group Student Conference. Waterloo, Canada. April.
  • Taiyang Zhong, Zhenzhong Si, and S. Scott. 2016. “Household Patronage and Participation in Nanjing’s Informal Food Economy.” Presentation at the symposium, Informality and the urban food system: policy, practice and inclusive growth through a food lens, Capetown, South Africa, Feb. 15.

In and before 2015:

  • Zhenzhong Si, Steffanie Scott, and Taiyang Zhong. 2015. “Reimagining ‘food security’ in China: Insights from a baseline survey in Nanjing”. 2015 International Conference on Chinese and African Sustainable Urbanization. Ottawa, Canada. Oct. 24-25.
  • Steffanie Scott, Zhenzhong Si, and Jenelle Regnier-Davies. 2015. “Approaching sustainable urban development in China through a food system planning lens”. 2015 International Conference on Chinese and African Sustainable Urbanization. Ottawa, Oct. 24-25.
  • Jennifer Marshman and Steffanie Scott. 2015. “Informal urban agriculture practices in Nanjing, China.” Presentation at the International Conference on Chinese and African Sustainable Urbanization. Ottawa, Oct. 24-25.
  • Steffanie Scott. 2015. “China’s next generation of organic farmers: a future for China’s peasants?” Invited speaker at the “Global Ideas: Capitalizing on Food and Agriculture” panel at the Canadian Association for Food Studies Conference. Ottawa, Ontario. May 30-June 2.
  • Steffanie Scott, Jenelle Regnier-Davies and Zhenzhong Si. 2015. “Relevance of a Sustainable Food Systems Approach for Chinese Cities,” Presentation at the Canadian Association for Food Studies Conference. Ottawa, Ontario, May 30-June 2.
  • Steffanie Scott. 2015. “Ecological Agriculture in China: Government-led versus grassroots initiatives.” Presentation at the Cases and Frameworks for the Dissemination of Ecological Agriculture and CSAs in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan workshop. Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, March 21-23.
  • Steffanie Scott. 2015. “The Rise of China's Organic Food Sector and Alternative Food Networks,” Chinese University of Hong Kong Dept of Geography and Resource Management Seminar Series, March 12.
  • Zhenzhong Si. 2015. “An introduction of Nanjing and its food system”. International Meeting of the Hungry Cities Partnership Project. Cape Town, South Africa. February 9-13.
  • Steffanie Scott. 2014. “Forging new interfaces between ‘feeders’ and ‘eaters’: Alternative food networks in China,” Presentation at Food and Sustainability: Production, Consumption and Food Relations in Asia Conference, City University of Hong Kong, Oct. 14.
  • Steffanie Scott. 2014. “Characteristics of China’s Ecological and Organic Agriculture Sector,” Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, Oct. 13.
  • Steffanie Scott. 2014. “Enhancing Support for the Ecological and Organic Agriculture Sector in China,” Presentation to an 18-person visiting delegation from the China State Office of Comprehensive Agricultural Development/Ministry of Finance, Waterloo, Sept. 4.
  • Taiyang Zhong and Steffanie Scott. 2014. “Change in China’s Land Use for Food Production Since 1996.” Presentation at the Canadian Association for Food Studies Conference. St Catharines, Ontario, May 25-27.
  • Zhenzhong Si and Steffanie Scott. 2014. “Farmers’ Markets as Contested Spaces: A Case Study of an Ecological Farmers’ Market in Beijing, China.” Presentation at the Canadian Association for Food Studies Conference. St Catharines, Ontario, May 25-27.
  • Aijuan Chen and S. Scott. 2014. “Rural development strategies and government roles in the development of farmers’ cooperatives in China.” Presentation at the Canadian Association for Food Studies Conference. St Catharines, Ontario, May 25-27.
  • Steffanie Scott. 2014. “Practices and meanings in the rise of China’s organic food sector,” Presentation for the University of Waterloo Faculty of Environment speaker series, March 21.
  • Ellen Desjardins, Steffanie Scott, and Krista Long. 2013. “Food Policy in Waterloo Region: Applying Food Systems Thinking for Integrated Approaches to Food Policy.” Presentation at the Canadian Association for Food Studies Conference. Victoria, June 1-4. (and co-organizer of this session on Food Policy in Canadian Cities)
  • Steffanie Scott. 2013. “The Structure of China’s Organic and Ecological Agriculture Sector and Comparisons with Alternative Food Networks in Canada.” Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, March 18.
  • Steffanie Scott. 2013. “An Introduction to Food Systems, Environment and Development,” Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, March 14.
  • Steffanie Scott. 2013. “Building ‘community’ through CSAs and other alternative food networks: Experiences from Canada and China,” Beijing Country Fair speaker series, Beijing, March 9.
  • Steffanie Scott. 2013. “Ecological agriculture and alternative agriculture in China,” China Academy of GeoSciences, Beijing, March 7.
  • Steffanie Scott. 2013. “Trust and the Organic Food Supply in China.” Presentation at the Canadian Organic Growers-Toronto meeting. Toronto, Feb. 13.
  • Zhenzhong Si*, Steffanie Scott, and Theresa Schumilas*. 2012. “Forging urban-rural connections through alternative food networks: the emergence of Community Supported Agriculture and buying clubs in China.” Paper presented at the International Conference on Spatial and Social Transformation in Urban China. Hong Kong, Dec. 13-14.
  • Theresa Schumilas, Steffanie Scott, Zhenzhong Si, and Tony Fuller. 2012. “CSAs in Canada and China: Innovation and Paradox.” Paper presented at the International Conference on Rural Reconstruction and Food Sovereignty, 2nd South-South Forum on Sustainability. Chongqing, China, Dec. 7-11.
  • Steffanie Scott, Theresa Schumilas and Zhenzhong Si. 2012. “The Evolution and Structure of China’s Organic and Ecological Agriculture Sector and Alternative Food Networks.” Paper presented at the Waterloo Food Issues Group. University of Waterloo, Oct. 31.
  • Steffanie Scott. 2012. Session organizer for “The ecological and organic agriculture sector in China: Emerging organizational structures and actors,” XIII World Congress of Rural Sociology, Lisbon, July 29-Aug. 4.
  • Steffanie Scott. 2012. “The Greening of Food and Agriculture in China: Organizational Forms in the Organic and Ecological Agriculture Sector.” Paper presented at the XIII World Congress of Rural Sociology. Lisbon, July 29-Aug. 4.
  • Theresa Schumilas* and S. Scott. 2012. “Ontario’s Organic Sector: Politics in Place or Conventionalization?” Paper presented at the Canadian Association for Food Studies Conference, Waterloo, May 26-28.
  • Steffanie Scott. 2012. “Alternative Food Networks with Chinese Characteristics.” Paper presented at the Canadian Association for Food Studies Conference, Waterloo, May 26-28. [and chair for session on Rethinking Alternative Agriculture through Experiences in East and Southeast Asia]
  • Steffanie Scott. 2012. “Community Organizing for a Sustainable Food System: A Canada-China Comparison.” Presentation at the School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, China, Apr.17.
  • Aijuan Chen and Steffanie Scott. 2012. “Scaling Up Ecological Farming in China through Farmers Cooperatives.” Paper presented at the American Association of Geographers Conference. New York, Feb. 24-28.