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Environmental Degradation and Food Security Policies in China

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China’s Environmental Crisis

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Abstract

Food is the material basis to human survival, and in each nation-state, providing a system for the development, production, and distribution of food and its security is a primary national objective. Many forces have influenced the food security of peoples since ancient times, with particular challenges from natural disasters (floods, famines, drought, and pestilence) and growing populations globally. From the late twentieth century to the early twenty-first, however, analysts have riveted their attention on environmental change and crises, for example, pollution of arable land and water, insufficiency of water, deforestation, desertification, and over-fishing among others. Our focus is on the food security of the world’s most populous nation, China, and the impact on food security of vast environmental change in the past 50 years. First, however, we explain why China must be considered in any global discussion of food security.

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McBeath, J., McBeath, J.H. (2010). Environmental Degradation and Food Security Policies in China. In: Kassiola, J.J., Guo, S. (eds) China’s Environmental Crisis. Environmental Politics and Theory. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230114364_5

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