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Feeding China

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After offering a general overview of the status of China’s food security, this chapter provides a comprehensive summary of the existing literature on the two key debates associated to China’s food security and its global implications, namely, “whether China can feed itself?” and “will China starve the world?” This chapter also identifies several major interrelated issues which have been either overlooked or insufficiently discussed in existing studies regarding China’s food security.

We must ensure China’s food security so that we always have control over our own food supply.

Xi Jinping (2017) at 19th Chinese Communist Party (CCP) National Congress

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Zhang, H. (2019). Feeding China. In: Securing the ‘Rice Bowl’. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0236-7_1

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