ABSTRACT
This chapter expresses that local producers and consumers are not passively waiting for government policy changes, but, organised by green social workers, are actively searching for alternatives to achieve self-sufficiency and food security through a new initiative, the rural–urban alliance. The social economy provides a new framework to rethink economic development and think about alternatives to capitalism, as recommended by green social work. Currently, China is at the crossroads of its second revolution. The food-security crisis of China caused by unsustainable development has diminished China's farmland through a large number of land acquisitions, ecological restorations, agricultural structural adjustments, natural disasters, pollution and other issues. The rural–urban alliance and community supporting agriculture could be a new route for China's sustainable development which will change the pathway of forms of economic development that cause inequality and undermine people's livelihoods, and provide for the holistic, resilient, sustainable future green social workers advocate.
