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Sustainable Management of Cordyceps: Supply Chains and Resource Management Policies book cover

1st Edition

Sustainable Management of Cordyceps Supply Chains and Resource Management Policies

Edited By Jiping Sheng, Ksenia Gerasimova Copyright 2025
204 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book examines the challenges of sustainably managing and conserving Cordyceps sinensis , a rare species of fungus 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 has risen by over 900% since the 1970s. This has made it a very lucrative... Read more

Introduction

Part I: Introduction to Cordyceps

1 What Is Cordyceps? 

Jiping Sheng, Mengyao Diao, Yiyuan Miao, and Ksenia Gerasimova

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

3 The Where, Who, and How in Collecting Wild Cordyceps in China

Jiping Sheng, Xinyi Xu, Yiyuan Miao, Lin Shen, and Ksenia Gerasimova

4 Trade of Raw Cordyceps: The Hui Middlemen and Tibetan Collectors Cooperatives

Jiping Sheng, Yiyuan Miao, Xinyi Xu, Lin Shen, and Ksenia Gerasimova

5 Cordyceps-Based Products and Their Consumers 

Jiping Sheng, Huiqi Song, Yiyun Wen, Xinyi Xu, and Shengye Shen

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

7 Market Regulation of Cordyceps sinsensis

Jiping Sheng, Yijing Xin, Wenfan Su, Xinyi Xu, and Lin Shen

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

9 Rural Land Reforms and management of Cordyceps in Qinghai: Lessons for Sustainability

Ksenia Gerasimova, Jiang Zhao, and Jiping Sheng

10 Climate Change and Chinese Conservation Policy

Jiping Sheng, Jiahao Shi, Shenghang Wang, and Ksenia Gerasimova

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).

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