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Environmental Stressors and Food Security in China

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Author	McBeath, Jerry McBeath, Jenifer Huang
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	This article considers the immediate forces influencing China’s food system and food security. By immediate is meant events of the reform period, from the late 1970s to 2008. It begins by asking the question that has preoccupied specialists since the publication of Lester Brown’s Who Will Feed China? in 1995: How much arable land does China have? Is that land area sufficient to insure grain sufficiency? To insure food security? The article focuses on the human pressures on the food production environment, and then treats the effects of socioeconomic change: land, air, and water degradation. The core of the article examines six responses of the state to both perceived and actual environmental stressors: policy restricting arable land conversion, China’s one-child policy, investment in irrigation systems, the South–North Water Diversion Project, large-scale afforestation and reforestation campaigns, and the program to convert marginal agricultural lands to forests and grasslands.
Starting Page	49
Ending Page	80
Page Count	32
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10806954
Journal	Journal of Chinese Political Science
Volume Number	14
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	18746357
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2008-11-22
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Food System Food Security Arable Land Urbanization Economic Development Erosion Deforestation Desertification Land Pollution Air Pollution Water Sufficiency Water Pollution Ocean Pollution One-Child Policy South–North Water Diversion Project Afforestation Reforestation Slope Land Conversion Program (“Grain to Green”) Political Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations

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