Securing the 'rice bowl' : China and global food security / Hongzhou Zhang.

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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Zhang, Hongzhou (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
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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 of Global Food Governance.