Research on the International Sustainable Practice of the Taiwanese Food and Agricultural Education Law under the Current Global Food Security Challenges

Chih-Cheng Huang; Shang-Pin Li; Jiin-Chyuan Mark Lai; Yung-Kuan Chan; Ming-Yuan Hsieh

doi:10.3390/foods12142785

Research on the International Sustainable Practice of the Taiwanese Food and Agricultural Education Law under the Current Global Food Security Challenges

Foods. 2023 Jul 21;12(14):2785. doi: 10.3390/foods12142785.

Authors

Chih-Cheng Huang¹, Shang-Pin Li², Jiin-Chyuan Mark Lai³, Yung-Kuan Chan⁴, Ming-Yuan Hsieh⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Leisure & Recreation, National Formosa University, Yunlin City 403632, Taiwan.
² Department of Early Childhood Development and Education, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung City 41349, Taiwan.
³ Department of Applied Foreign Languages, TransWorld University, Yunlin City 403632, Taiwan.
⁴ Department of Management Information Science, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung City 402204, Taiwan.
⁵ Department of International Business, National Taichung University of Education, Taichung City 403454, Taiwan.

Abstract

On 19 April 2022, in order to overcome a succession of recent global food health and agriculture safety (FHAS) incidents, the Taiwanese government instituted and announced 20 comprehensive Articles under the Taiwanese Food and Agricultural Education Law (TFAEL) for regulating the Taiwanese FHAS in order to completely construct the international strategies under the current global food security challenges of the FAHS. As a result, this research study firstly employs the learning community model (LCM) of the learning theory to measure the implementing depth of the international sustainability practice of the 20 Articles of the Taiwanese FHASE from a learning performance analytical perspective. Then, the social learning theory (SLT) of the educational theory is applied to consolidate the individual behaviors of the relative stakeholders, the organizational management of the relative industries and the socialized consent of the multilateral organization performance assessment network (MOPAN) of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN). After completing quantitative and qualitative analyses, the two most valuable conclusions and findings were as follows: (1) Not only Article 12, but also Articles 3, 4 and 5 of the new law can empirically facilitate strategic management for supporting and promoting the Taiwanese FHAS educational policy dialogue at a global, regional and country scale in order to effectively advance the international sustainable compatibility of the TFAEL. (2) Articles 6, 11 and 16 of the new law can completely construct operational management for building normative and standard-setting Taiwanese FHAS educational works in order to efficiently advance the international sustainable compatibility of the TFAEL. Therefore, beyond the analytical results of this research, the international sustainable compatibility of the TFAEL provides a direction for the development of sustainable food systems, food policies, agricultural food markets and food chains in order to overcome the various contemporary global food security challenges.

Keywords: Taiwanese Food and Agricultural Education Law (TFAEL); food health and agriculture safety (FHAS); institutional theory (IT); international sustainable compatibility; learning community model (LCM); social learning theory (SLT).

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