China's Food Economy to the Twenty‐first Century: Supply, Demand, and Trade

Huang, Jikun; Rozelle, Scott; Rosegrant, Mark W.

doi:10.1086/452430

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“…Other analysts have also predicted that China will need to abandon its food self-sufficiency policy in favor of purchasing a significant proportion of its grain from the international market (e.g. Brown, 1995;Huang et al, 1997) and that ". .…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Can urbanization solve inter-sector water conflicts? Insight from a case study in Hebei Province, North China Plain

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China, like many countries, is experiencing an unprecedented rate of urbanization. Urbanization is usually thought to intensify inter-sectoral water conflicts. In contrast, this paper considers urbanization as part of a viable solution to the problem. By evaluating water consumption, or depletion, in terms of actual evaporation and transpiration, as opposed to the amount withdrawn from water sources, this paper argues that urbanization has a positive role to play in lessening inter-sectoral water competition and in reversing groundwater declines. At the regional scale, urbanization can help achieve these goals by replacing some agricultural land use, particularly under two conditions: (1) both the industrial and agricultural sectors adopt water-saving technologies, and (2) urban wastewater and runoff are treated and reused directly in agriculture or indirectly through artificial recharge. Combined, the two conditions must result in a net decrease in water consumption at the regional scale. These points are illustrated with a case study of rural Luancheng County and adjacent industrialized Shijiazhuang City in Hebei Province. A water-balance approach provides a simple, quantitative framework for evaluating the potential for various land-use mosaics to stabilize groundwater levels.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Can urbanization solve inter-sector water conflicts? Insight from a case study in Hebei Province, North China Plain

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“…However, meat consumption has risen rapidly, by a factor of 3.7 from 1980 to 2003. The large increase in meat consumption is mainly due to the rapid increase in per capita income, urbanization, and market expansion (Hsu et al, 2002;Huang et al, 1999). In the past four decades, the consumption of rice and wheat increased gradually until it peaked in the late 1990s.…”

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Food consumption patterns and their effect on water requirement in China

Liu

Savenije

2008

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. It is widely recognized that food consumption patterns significantly impact water requirements. The aim of this paper is to quantify how food consumption patterns influence water requirements in China. The findings show that per capita water requirement for food (CWRF) has increased from 255 m 3 cap −1 y −1 in 1961 to 860 m 3 cap −1 y −1 in 2003, largely due to an increase in the consumption of animal products in recent decades. Although steadily increasing, the CWRF of China is still much lower than that of many developed countries.

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“…Widespread adoption of modern varieties and intensive use of inorganic fertilizers and chemical pesticides have pushed yields in many areas of developing countries to levels that rival those reached on farms in developed countries and on the experimental fields of agronomists. For example, nearly 100% of farmers in China use improved varieties of rice, wheat and maize 8 , and producers in south Asia and Latin America use modern cereal varieties on more than 80% of their sown area 9 . The gap between the actual yields of farmers and those that are attainable on experimental plots, given the current resource base and economic environment, has narrowed in a number of the world's developing nations 7 .…”

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Enhancing the crops to feed the poor

Huang

Pray

Rozelle

2002

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Solutions to the problem of how the developing world will meet its future food needs are broader than producing more food, although the successes of the 'Green Revolution' demonstrate the importance of technology in generating the growth in food output in the past. Despite these successes, the world still faces continuing vulnerability to food shortages. Given the necessary funding, it seems likely that conventional crop breeding, as well as emerging technologies based on molecular biology, genetic engineering and natural resource management, will continue to improve productivity in the coming decades.

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China's Food Economy to the Twenty‐first Century: Supply, Demand, and Trade

Cited by 97 publications

References 18 publications

Can urbanization solve inter-sector water conflicts? Insight from a case study in Hebei Province, North China Plain

Can urbanization solve inter-sector water conflicts? Insight from a case study in Hebei Province, North China Plain

Food consumption patterns and their effect on water requirement in China

Enhancing the crops to feed the poor

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