Securing the 'Rice Bowl' China and Global Food Security /

• Main Author: Zhang, Hongzhou (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Asia-Politics and government.; Agricultural economics.; Asia-Economic conditions.; Asian Politics.; Agricultural Economics.; Asian Economics.

This book offers a snappy but comprehensive investigation of how the resource needs of today could become the resource conflicts of tomorrow. As the most populous country in the world, the security of China's "rice bowl" is not only a top political priority for China's policymake...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Feeding China
• 2. Paradigm Shift in China's Food Security Strategy
• 3. Scaling Up and Cleaning up the Farmland
• 4. Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) as the New Hope
• 5. Fishing for Food
• 6. Looking South for Rice
• 7. Marching West for "Bread"
• 8. Food Power in the Context of Sino-American Rivalry
• 9. Creating China's Global Agribusinesses
• 10. A Hungry China and the Future Global Food Governance.