Zhu ChunYan

Food sovereignty has become an important lens for understanding agrarian transformation in Southeast Asia, yet existing scholarship remains fragmented across country cases and thematic concerns. This study examines the development of food sovereignty research in Southeast Asia through a bibliometric analysis combined with qualitative interpretation under the Research–Policy–Practice (RPP) framework. Data were collected from the Web of Science Core Collection and Scopus databases, and 68 English-language journal articles published between 2009 and 2025 were included after screening. Descriptive analysis and keyword co-occurrence mapping were used to identify publication trends, geographical distribution, core journals, and thematic structures. The findings show that research in this field has expanded rapidly since the mid-2010s and is mainly concentrated in Indonesia, followed by the Philippines and Malaysia. Thematically, the literature has moved beyond a narrow focus on food provision towards broader concerns with governance, rights, institutional constraints, resource control, agroecology, and grassroots networks. Overlay analysis further indicates a recent shift towards climate-related pressures, conflict, justice, and resilience. These patterns suggest that food sovereignty in Southeast Asia is best understood not as a single policy objective, but as a contested process shaped by the interaction of state power, market pressures, local resource autonomy, and community-based practices. By integrating bibliometric mapping with the RPP perspective, this study offers a more coherent understanding of how food sovereignty is researched, governed, and practised across the region.

This article examines whether the likelihood and amount of firm charitable giving in response to catastrophic events are related to firm advertising intensity, and whether industry competition level moderates this relationship. Using data on Chinese firms’ philanthropic response to the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, we find that firm advertising intensity is positively associated with both the probability and the amount of corporate giving. The results also indicate that this positive advertising intensity-philanthropic giving relationship is stronger in competitive industries, and firms in competitive industries are more likely to donate. This study thus provides evidence suggesting that even in the wake of catastrophic events, corporate philanthropic giving is strategic.