Food Security In China

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“Given the increasing phenomenon of global hunger and poverty, China, as a global economic powerhouse and major agri-food producer, is faced with an imperative of not only of feeding its own citizens, but also to contribute to structuring a more efficient and sustainable food and agricultural system and ensure better market balances, and a fairer allocation of resources and responsibilities among the global community so to ensure food security for all and to improve the standard of living.”(Bhishwajit Ghose). With this context in mind the Chinese policy makers are trying to concentrate on developing policies which would resolve not just the food security issue but at the same time have a sustainable approach to the natural …show more content…

“The term “Food security” translates literally as grain security in Chinese (Liáng shí a ̄n quán). Grain sufficiency has always been at the heart of national food security agenda in China as in most other Asian countries (Ghose and Sajeeb 2013)”.It mainly concentrated on the domestic production of grains but in the recent years, there has been a dip in the production of grains and the demand for it has been rising since then. The only way for maintaining the balance between the self sufficiency rate and demand would be to import as much as possible to keep the self sufficiency rate above 90 percent. The food security strategy with emphasised on domestic supply and moderate imports is being replaced by a dual food security …show more content…

This would in turn help in creating a global food security. Asim K. Karmakar and Debasis Mukhopadhyay in “Towards a prudent policy for food” have argued that “ for many poor countries the solution for food security lie in the improvement in the technology of food production: new seeds, irrigation, fertilisers, biotechnology revolution in developing new and improved varieties and in plant protection methods. by doing so, such countries can become self sufficient, but again the use of such resources is the most important of the lot”. If such resources which are provided by the developed countries are not used efficiently there would be no global food

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