Achieving food security in China : the challenges ahead
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Achieving food security in China : the challenges ahead
(Routledge studies in the modern world economy, 167)
Routledge, 2017
- : hbk
Available at 7 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
China's food security has never failed to attract the public's attention. Feeding China's large population has always been a huge challenge. The latest large-scale famine took place in 1958-62 during which approximately 37 million people died of starvation. However, since the early 1980s, China's food availability has improved drastically. The important question is then: has China achieved its food security? Although China's food availability has significantly improved, it has not achieved a high level of food security due to the lack of progress in several other important dimensions of food security.
The book examines China's food security practices in the past six decades, explores the root causes that led to food shortages or abundances, and elaborates on the challenges that China has to deal with in order to improve its future food security. China's quest for food security serves as a valuable lesson for many other countries to learn through China's experiences and to better manage their food security in the future. The book also draws attention to the fact that China's food security status has a huge impact on the global community and hence global collaboration is a mutually beneficial approach.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1 Motivation
1.2 A Snapshot
1.3 Objectives
1.4 Key Terms
1.5 Organisation
2. Existing Studies on China's Food Security
2.1 The Great Famine during 1958-62
2.2 Food Shortages during the Cultural Revolution, 1966-76
2.3 Food Abundance since the 1980s
2.4 Food Security for the Future
Appendix to Chapter 2
3. China's Food Security Practice in the Past
3.1 Food Scarcity: 1950s-1970s
3.2 Food Abundance: 1980 to Date
3.3 From Scarcity to Abundance: What are the Key Determinants?
3.4 Concluding Comments
4. Current Status of Food Security in China
4.1 Evaluation Framework
4.2 Current Food Security Status: Evaluation by the Oshaug-Eide-Eide Framework
4.3 Current Food Security Status: Evaluation by Other Approaches
4.4 Concluding Comments
5. China's Quest for Food Security: The Challenges Ahead
5.1 Sustaining Food Production Resources
5.2 Eliminating Unsafe Food and Improving Food Quality
5.3 Narrowing Income Inequalities
5.4 Reducing Food Wastes
5.5 Making Grain Reserve Management Transparent
5.6 Carrying Out Innovative Reforms to the Institutions
5.7 Summing Up
6. China and the Global Food Security
6.1 Will China Starve the World?
6.2 Other Impacts of China on Global Food Security
6.3 How Should the International Community Deal with the Impact of China?
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