Environmental Change and Food Security in China

• Main Authors: Huang McBeath, Jenifer (Author), McBeath, Jerry (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Series: Advances in Global Change Research, 35
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Political science.; Agriculture.; Plant pathology.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Development economics.; Agricultural economics.; Life Sciences.; Agricultural Economics.; Development Economics.; Political Science.; Plant Pathology.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.

With 22 percent of the world’s population but only 7 percent of its arable land, China’s food situation is a matter of global concern. Environmental Change and Food Security in China, is the first to introduce comprehensively the threats to China’s system of food production, distribution, and consum...

Table of Contents:

• Communist Rule and the Food Security Situation
• Immediate Environmental Stressors on Food Security
• Near-Term Environmental Stressors: Climate Change
• Plant Diseases, Pests and Food Security
• Invasive Species and Food Security
• Biotechnological Responses to Food Security Needs
• The Legal and Institutional Framework to Address Food Security Needs
• Issues in Implementing Food Security in China
• Summary and Conclusions.