Dear Preetmoninder Lidder,
I am glad to have a chance for reviewing this draft. I am a member of the Academy of Forest Inventory and Planning, National Forestry and Grassland Administration of China. Thus, I am not familiar with the agrifood systems. I only present one suggestion for revision: in the last paragraph on page 21, the three models are better ranked as: the policy-oriented model, the production-focused model and the integrated model. Moreover, it is better in the same order in the whole text and the annexes. For example, at the end of this drafted document, statement categories A, B, and C are better to represent the policy-oriented model, the production-focused model and the integrated model, respectively. Additionally, the policy-oriented model is commonly used in China.
With a little regret, I have not found any descriptions about China in this document. Maybe, it is not the authors’ fault. In the normal sense, at least one of the principal authors should come from China, because China has the largest population and is a large agricultural country. But, no one is from China. I can’t find one Chinese expert even in the list of additional contributors and peer reviewers. It seems like China has nothing to do with the agrifood systems. In fact, China has resolved the problem of absolute poverty in the past decades, making significant contributions to the cause of global poverty reduction. According to the Report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2022, a total of 832 impoverished counties and close to 100 million poor rural residents have been lifted out of poverty, and, among them, more than 9.6 million poverty-stricken people have been relocated from inhospitable areas.
Many thanks to you and all authors.
Regards.
Prof. Weisheng Zeng