Titlebook: Securing the ‘Rice Bowl’; China and Global Foo Hongzhou Zhang Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 Food Policy.Ri

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,Paradigm Shift in China’s Food Security Strategy,curity. The country’s sensitivity associated with food self-sufficiency is both a domestic construct, which is rooted in its unique cultural, political and economic structures, and shaped by its leaders’ interpretations of the global food market and the external political environment. Correspondingl

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Scaling Up and Cleaning Up the Farmland,ensuring grain production capacity and improving the overall competitiveness of the country’s agricultural sector. To achieve this objective, China is determined to address two major problems associated with its farmland. The first is fragmented, small-scale subsistence farms. The second is farmland

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Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) as the New Hope,l and food security. To most of the policymakers and grain experts, China’s agricultural resources limitation can only be largely conquered by innovating yield-augmenting techniques, particularly the development of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). While the central government has been very sup

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Fishing for Food,y. This chapter examines how the “blue granary” or the marine-based food security strategy has affected China’s fisheries sectors and its global implications. This chapter finds that food security has been the key driver for two key structural changes that are taking place in China’s fishery sector,

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Looking South for Rice,security is concerned. As the past practice of intensive farming to maintain a high level of rice output is over and China steps up efforts to clean up the farmland, particularly through crop rotation and fallow land system, the supply and demand gap for rice is expect to widen in the years to come.

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,Marching West for “Bread”,Ukraine) fit into China’s global agricultural policy as the potential overseas “breadbasket” for the country. While wheat is certainly the key crop that attracts China’s interests in the agricultural and food sectors of the CIS, other agricultural products, such as non-GMO corn and soybean and meat

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,Creating China’s Global Agribusinesses,s borders became a policy priority for the Chinese leaders. Toward this end, China is determined to create its own “ABCD Group” or global agribusinesses. This chapter identifies three tiers of domestic agribusinesses which are supported by the Chinese government via different means to expand globall