ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Land, Livelihoods and Food Security
Volume 9 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2025.1575066
This article is part of the Research TopicClimate Change and Sustainable Food Security: Prospects and Challenges of Feeding 9 Billion PeopleView all 6 articles
The Impact Mechanism and Governance of Dietary Structure Upgrading on Grain Security in China
Provisionally accepted
- 1Nanjing University of Industry Technology, Nanjing, China
- 2Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing, China
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Based on the panel data of 31 provinces in China, this paper empirically examines the impact mechanism and governance pathways of dietary structure upgrading on grain security by employing a two-way fixed effects model. The study finds that: (1) Dietary structure upgrading has a significant negative impact on grain security in China, and this finding still holds after multiple robustness tests;(2) Water resources are the mediating path that causes this negative impact, while international trade exhibits a significant positive moderating role in the impact process; (3) Simulation analysis further indicates that China's current dietary structure still exhibits irrationality when compared to various global dietary health standards, transitioning toward a nutritious and healthy dietary structure could mitigate the pressure on China's grain security. In terms of overall savings, when simulation scenarios adhere to the primary global dietary guidelines, the total grain savings range from 40 to 120 million tons, equivalent to 7% to 18% of the current total grain production. Consequently, in the context of the continuous upgrading of residents' dietary structure, emphasizing water resource conservation, efficient utilization of international trade, and advancing rational dietary improvements can offer fresh perspectives and guidelines for formulating polices aimed at reducing the burdens on grain security in China.
Keywords: Dietary structure, Grain security, Water Resource, international trade, global dietary health structure
Received: 11 Feb 2025; Accepted: 24 Jul 2025.
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* Correspondence: Yanchi Chen, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing, China
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