Addressing China's grand challenge of achieving food security while ensuring environmental sustainability.

ABSTRACT: China's increasingly urbanized and wealthy population is driving a growing and changing demand for food, which might not be met without significant increase in agricultural productivity and sustainable use of natural resources. Given the past relationship between lack of access to affordable food and political instability, food security has to be given a high priority on national political agendas in the context of globalization. The drive for increased food production has had a significant impact on the environment, and the deterioration in ecosystem quality due to historic and current levels of pollution will potentially compromise the food production system in China. We discuss the grand challenges of not only producing more food but also producing it sustainably and without environment

SUBMITTER: Lu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4644077 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature