Disasters and food security: The impact on health

Bhopal, Anand; Blanchard, Kevin; Weber, Regine; Murray, Virginia

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2018.05.008

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“…Emergencies often have a massive impact on the food production supply and demand chain in a short period (Bhopal et al, 2018). Emergencies can be divided into political events, natural disasters, public health events, extreme diplomatic events, etc., and summarized as short-term and long-term effect events (Bhopal et al, 2018;Cook et al, 2019). Short-term effect events will lead to the suppression of food production supply or demand expansion in the short term, causing a food shortage crisis.…”

Section: Farmland Use Anti-interference Ability Needs To Be Enhancedmentioning

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China’s food security situation and key questions in the new era: A perspective of farmland protection

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As the world's largest developing country, the ability of China's agricultural resource utilization to effectively support the current and future food security goals has been affected by a variety of factors (e.g., transformed supply channels, tightening international situation and frequent emergencies) in recent years and has attracted extensive attention from the academic community subject to multiple factors. This study uses literature review, statistical analysis, and spatial analysis methods to systematically explore China's food security situation in the context of farmland resource constraints. It is found that the demand-side pressures such as demographic changes, social class differentiation, and dietary structure adjustments derived from economic growth and rapid urbanization have placed extremely high expectations on food supply. However, the quantitative restrictions, utilization ways, and health risks of farmland resources on the supply side constitute a huge hidden concern that affects the stability of food production. Although China's farmland protection system is undergoing a transition from focusing on quantity management to sustainable use, the matching and coordinating demand pressure and supply capacity for food security is unbalanced. Therefore, facing uncertain future development scenarios, policymakers should focus on building a resilient space for China's farmland protection to withstand the interference of major emergencies. The existing farmland protection space policy can be integrated by establishing a national farmland strategic reserve system (based on resilient space), and further development of targeted use control measures for zoning, grading, and classification will help realize sustainable China's farmland resources use.

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Section: Farmland Use Anti-interference Ability Needs To Be Enhancedmentioning

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China’s food security situation and key questions in the new era: A perspective of farmland protection

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“…的重要转型方向 [27,28] 。目前中国已经围绕耕地保泛应用在农业领域 [30,31] 。近年来，全球气候变化、国际贸易冲突以及新冠疫情相互叠加引发的粮食系统供应链中断问题加剧了全球粮食供给体系的不确定性，严重阻碍了世界粮食安全目标的稳定实现 [32][33][34] 和维护粮食安全的重要载体 [35,36] 。然而，部分学者认为，耕地保护政策设计的合理性可能会影响粮食供给的稳定性 [37] 。但一般而言，在未全方位明晰自然生态环境与社会经济活动和耕地利用相关政策互馈关系之前，耕地数量控制、质量调节、生态修复对于维护粮食主权、稳定社会生计、抵御极端灾害意义重大 [38,39] 。综上，本文提出基于恢复力视角的藏粮战略理论框架 (图 4) ，该框架以耕地保护与利用为主线，强调耕地保护空间应在保障口粮绝对自给的前提下提高适应与抗干扰能力。一方面，在面向膳食需求转型升级的时代背景下，非农化、非粮化、边际化、逆集约化 [40] "藏粮于地" 措施是保障粮食安全最现实的选择 [41] 。中国耕地保护是一项复杂的系统工程，涉及农村发展、农民福利和农业技术 [42,43] 。由于在耕地保护、利用与治理方面缺乏科学且系统的认识，耕地资源生产能力并未得到有效开发 [1] 。耕地的全要素生产能力是由气候因素、地学因素、科技因素、人文因素等共同决定的 [44] ，当前耕地资源利用仍存在较大的潜力空间。科学保护耕地应该以数量管控为前提，以产能提升为核心，以促进健康为保证，做好用养结合，兼顾利用效率，并实施有效监管 [44]…”

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Evolution of the national cultivated land strategic reserve system under the background of storing grain in the land

LIANG¹,

JIN²,

Han³

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Discussing the current situation and direction of China' s strategy of storing grain in the land is helpful for exploring the implementation path of the grain storage strategy (GSS) with Chinese characteristics in response to the new global challenges. Based on a literature review and theoretical analysis, this study examined and summarized the relevant GSS policies and research with respect to the practical problems, solutions, and implementation measures. The results show that GSS research has gradually shifted from the supply and demand focus to examining comprehensive production capacity under complex situations. However, there exist problems such as difficulties in achieving comprehensive goals, unbalanced policy content matching, and lack of supervision in the implementation process. The GSS connotation expansion with a resilience perspective provides a reference for policy integration and strategy implementation the optimization and improvement of food system' s adaptability and resistence to disruptions can be realized through tapping into cultivated land resource production potential. In conclusion, under the constraints of China' s food security goals in the new era, it is urgent to build a national cultivated land strategic reserve system oriented to global change and based on agricultural production potential assessment. Furthermore, clarifying the strategic reserve space will help enrich and improve related policies such as cross-regional cultivated land occupation-compensation balance, permanent basic farmland protection, and high-standard farmland construction, in order to serve GSS implementation and practice.

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Storing Grain in the Land: The Gestation, Delineation Framework, and Case of the Two Zones Policy in China

Wang

2023

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Cultivated land (CL) protection is an overarching strategic concern for stabilizing the agricultural foundation and for achieving the sustainable development of the national economy and society. Faced with the challenges of the dual drives of complex domestic and international situations, China’s CL protection system has coupled the quantity and quality dimensions and focused on a dynamic balancing system and permanent basic farmland (PBF) policy. However, it has had difficulty meeting the objectives of sustainable agricultural development and is undergoing upgrades. Accordingly, the Chinese government has issued a CL protection policy that includes adjusting the planting structure, optimizing the agricultural layout, and adding the three dimensions of quantity, quality, and planting structure, namely “Delimitation of the Grain Production Functional Zone and the Important Agricultural Product Production-Protection Zone” (the “two zones” policy). With regard to the ambiguous understanding of the two zones policy, this study aims to explore the following issues: (1) How was the two zones policy conceived? (2) What mechanism does it use to make up for the deficiencies of the previous policy? (3) How does it integrate the three dimensions of quantity, quality, and planting structure? (4) How to reasonably delimit the two zones. To solve these problems, this paper first reviews the evolution of China’s CL protection policies and explains the incubation process of the two zones policy and its connotation and mechanism. Then, a delineation framework process is proposed and the approaches of executing the two zones policy on a regional scale are discussed. Furthermore, a real delimitation was conducted in Qianguo County to validate the framework. The evidence shows that customizing CL use according to regional resource potential differentiation and forming a CL protection policy with the three dimensions of quantity, quality, and structure are effective in improving the productive potential of CL and promoting the adjustment of the planting structure. Furthermore, the framework and case study findings of the delimitation provide a theoretical reference and practical foundation to translate macro policy into micro management.

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Disasters and food security: The impact on health

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China’s food security situation and key questions in the new era: A perspective of farmland protection

China’s food security situation and key questions in the new era: A perspective of farmland protection

Evolution of the national cultivated land strategic reserve system under the background of storing grain in the land

Storing Grain in the Land: The Gestation, Delineation Framework, and Case of the Two Zones Policy in China

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