China's Food Security

Strategies and Countermeasures
2023
ISBN: 978-981-99-0729-8
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 428 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 723 g

This book makes a systematic study of the history, current situation and trend of China's food security and the global food security. COVID-19 has triggered a world food crisis. Understanding the history, current situation and trend of China's and global food security is conducive to the rational arrangement of agricultural production, food storage, scheduling and import by management departments; it is conducive to the understanding of the situation of food supply and demand; it is conducive to the rational arrangement of production and operation planning. This book systematically studies the history and experience of China's food security, analyzes the 9 major problems facing the current food security, calculates the potential food production, puts forward the strategies and countermeasures for food security in the next 20 years and puts forward 4 strategies and 8 countermeasures for ensuring food security. This book will be of great value to scholars of international relations and sinologists, and has special relevance to United Nations sustainable development goal 2, eliminating hunger.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hongguang, Wang

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Lebensmitteltechnologie und Getränketechnologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Analytische Chemie Umweltchemie, Lebensmittelchemie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Ökotrophologie (Ernährungs- und Haushaltswissenschaften)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. A new concept of food security.- 1. Post-Pandemic Changes in the World Pattern and Food Security.- 2. A New Concept of Food Security for Today’s World.- 3. Possible Recurrence of Food Crisis and Food Wars.- 4. Difficulties on the Road to Eradicating Hunger.- Part II. Global food security.- 5. Food Production: A 60-Year Review and 20-Year Outlook.- 6. Grain Consumption: A 60-Year Review and 20-Year Outlook.- 7. Grain Trade: A 60-Year Review and 20-Year Outlook.- 8. Production of the Livestock Sector: A 60-Year Review and Outlook.- 9. Trade in Livestock Products: A 60-Year Review and 20-Year Outlook.- 10. Basic Conclusions on Global Food Security.- Part III. China’s food security: history and experience.- 11. Remarkable History of China's Agriculture and Food Security.- 12. Milestones of Agriculture and Food Security in New China.- 13. Grain Production: 486% Increase in 70 Years.- 14. Grain Trade: 88-Fold Increase in 70 Years.- 15. Grain Consumption: 577% Increase in 70 Years.- Part IV. Food Security in China: Current Situation and Problems.- 16. Efficiency and Cost of Grain Production.- 17. Food Security in Various Provinces/Municipalities/Regions.- 18. Security Index of Major Crops.- 19. Status Quo and Problems of Food Security.- Part V. China’s Food Security: Strategies and Countermeasures.- 20. Grain Production and Demand Forecast.- 21. Strategies and Countermeasures for Food Security.- 22. Potential and Solutions to Food Security.- 23. Potential and Solutions for Major Grain-Producing Provinces.- 24. Resolute to Win the Food War.

Über Autor(innen)

Hongguang Wang is Executive Director at Peking University’s China Center of strategy studies and Director in China Food Security Research Center at China Agricultural University.