Download or read book Can China Feed Itself written by Shouying Liu and published by Focus on China S.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's grain problem has been a hot issue attracting international attention since the beginning of the 1990s. The eleven theses included in this book have been selected from among over 400 on this topic. Written by well-known experts and scholars these essays, rich in content and information, provide many perspectives on the proposition that 'the Chinese can feed themselves'. / Book back cover

Download or read book ChinaFood written by Gerhard K. Heilig and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book China Can Feed Itself and Well Into the Next Century written by James R. Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How Did China Feed Itself in the Past How Will China Feed Itself in the Future written by Justin Yifu Lin and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Can China Feed Itself written by Gerhard K. Heilig and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Can China Feed Itself written by Gerhard K. Heilig and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How Should China Feed Itself written by Yongzheng Yang and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How Should China Feed Itself written by Yongzheng Yang and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Can China Feed Itself A System for Evaluation of Policy Options written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features a CD ROM-based report of the research by Gerhard Heilig on land use in China and future food security, published by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria. Provides access to arguments, data, a FAQ, a bibliography, and links to related resources.

Download or read book China and Global Food Security written by Shaohua Zhan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In less than half a century (1978–2020), China has transformed itself from a country that barely fed itself to a powerful player in the global food system, characterized by massive food imports, active overseas agricultural engagement, and the global expansion of Chinese agribusiness. This Element offers a nuanced analysis of China's global food strategy and its impacts on food security and the international agri-food order. To feed a population of 1.4 billion, China actively seeks overseas agri-food resources whilst maintaining a high level of domestic food production. This strategy gives China an advantageous position in the global food system, but it also creates contradictions and problems within and beyond the country. This could potentially worsen global food insecurity in the long term.

Download or read book From Self Sufficiency to Self Supporting written by Scott Y. Lin and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current studies on China's food security are largely based on the perspective of grain self-sufficiency, and discuss whether China can feed itself at the national level through its grain production. As a result, the Chinese grain self-sufficiency policy of maintaining a self-sufficiency rate of above 95% tends to be regarded as a benchmark for evaluating China's food security status. However, recent studies and documents indicate that China is having difficulty adhering to its grain self-sufficiency policy and, therefore, is looking for overseas agricultural resources to support its increasing demand for grain. Today, China has become a major player in investing in farmland in foreign countries for grain production. During 2007-2013, at least 5.3 million hectares of overseas farmland, equal to 5% of its domestic sown land for grain crops in 2011, were secured and operated by Chinese firms. Accordingly, China's grain demand will be largely supported by Chinese-owned farmlands both locally and overseas, resulting in a new scenario for China's grain policy, that of being self-supporting.This practice of importing more grain from Chinese-owned farmlands abroad will eventually affect China's long-standing norm of seeking to maintain a 95% grain self-sufficiency rate. Thus, important questions have been raised: How does China acquire farmlands overseas? To what extent does the shifting Chinese grain policy challenge international norms? In response to this developing and ongoing story of China's policy shift from self-sufficiency to being self-supporting, this paper argues that China's adjustment in terms of its food security policy not only further secures its grain supply, but also influences international norms. An important finding of this paper is China's reliance on government supported companies and bilateral agreements, not only to safeguard production stemming from investments, but also to influence the regional food security status.

Download or read book China s food economy to the twenty first century written by Huang, Jikun and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 1997 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book China s Role in World Livestock and Feed grain Markets written by Hayes, Dermot James and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Will Africa Feed China written by Deborah Brautigam and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Will Africa Feed China?, Deborah Brautigam, one of the world's leading experts on China and Africa, challenges the conventional wisdom that the Chinese are leading the great African land grab. Her eye-opening analysis sheds new light on the myths and realities of China's evolving global quest for food security"--

Download or read book On Feeding the Masses written by John K. Yasuda and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pressures emanating from China's scale, regulatory politics, and need to feed itself has led to its decade's long food safety crisis.

Download or read book The Impacts of Food Security Policies in China at 2030 a Global CGE Analysis written by Jingyuan Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In recent years, there has been a growing interest in China's food security issue. China faces multiple challenges to achieve food security in the near future. On the supply side, current urban expansion trend continuously cause the rapid land diminution. In addition, the agricultural productivity of China is lower than the world average. On the food demand side, large population base and rapid income growth drive China's domestic food demand considerably. The unbalanced development of food demand and supply in China raise concern if China is able to feed itself in next decades. Unfortunately, existing studies have yet to arrive at a consensus in this debate. This thesis provides further discourse in this area. In this study, the GTAP framework and database is used to construct a multiregional CGE model to estimate impacts of different policy interventions in China's food security. The model contained 36 sectors and 16 regions. A recursive process is used to project the model to the 2030 and 2050 under BAU (business as usual). The study attempts ten scenarios to investigate implications of tariff adjustments, agricultural total factor productivity, agricultural subsidies and mandated grain growth rates. The effects of those policy interventions on the food security are then measured by nine indicators, including agricultural outputs, agricultural import and export, grain self-sufficiency rate, food price, private household food consumption, as well as China's economic growth, national welfare change, poverty implication and factor returns to unskilled labor.Projection of the China's food security status to the year 2030 and 2050 in BAU suggests that China is expected to just above 90% grain self-sufficiency in 2030, but it couldn't achieve 90% grain self-sufficiency in 2050. The current arable land protection--"Red Line" arable land policy (1,800 million mu) is not sufficient to produce enough grain in 2030 to meet 95% self-sufficiency rate; moreover, it is not enough to meet 90% (2,727.495 million mu) and 95% (2,879.022 million mu) self-sufficiency rates in 2050. The results suggest that agricultural TFP improvement is greatly helpful to achieve food security. Regarding to agricultural trade policy, meat import tariff reduction is likely to have more benefits in food security than grain tariff adjustments. The free meat trade agreement with Australia is expected to improve China's food security. Mandated grain growth rate is also a favorable policy option, when government attempts to improve poor people's food accessibility and ensures high rice and wheat self-sufficiency rate. Compared those policies, fertilizer and machinery subsidies, grain tariff adjustments, and free meat trade with Korea are expected to have detrimental effects on China's food security. In conclusion, the study suggests that (1) China must strictly protect arable land (2) Reducing meat tariff is helpful to achieve higher food security status. Free meat trade agreement with Australia is expected to have long-term benefits to food security. (3) The government should promote investment on agricultural research and technology development to improve agricultural productivity (TFP), which is considered to have profound and lasting benefits to national food security." --

Download or read book The New Consumers written by Norman Myers and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While overconsumption by the developed world's roughly one billion inhabitants is an abiding problem, another one billion increasingly affluent "new consumers" in developing countries will place additional strains on the earth's resources, argue authors Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent in this important new book. The New Consumers examines the environmental impacts of this increased consumption, with particular focus on two commodities -- cars and meat -- that stand to have the most far-reaching effects. It analyzes consumption patterns in a number of different countries, with special emphasis on China and India (whose surging economies, as well as their large populations, are likely to account for exceptional growth in humanity's ecological footprint), and surveys big-picture issues such as the globalization of economies, consumer goods, and lifestyles. Ultimately, according to the orman Myers and Jennifer Kent, the challenge will be for all of humanity to transition to sustainable levels of consumption, for it is unrealistic to expect "new" consumers not to aspire to be like the "old" ones. Cogent in its analysis, The New Consumers issues a timely warning of a major and developing environmental trend, and suggests valuable strategies for ameliorating its effects.