China’s Agriculture: A More Significant Source of Pollution
We examine the history and contemporary concerns of China's land use policies related to agriculture. As you will see, agriculture in China spans a range of issues, including GM food production, scales of production, food security and environmental degradation, to name several. To let you dive deeper into an agriculture-related topic that interests you most, in this essay write your own critical commentary about China's agricultural and land use production system. Present your own summary and argument about what is most important or pressing in China's agricultural production landscape. Your essay should be supported by the learning materials (please use citations) and offer an integrated and historical perspective -- remember, problems don't arise in a vacuum, they are produced through a confluence of historical, social, ecological and economic factors.
(1) responds to all aspects of the prompt, (2) use concrete examples from the text(s) to validate your response and be sure to cite (page numbers needed), and (3) draws connections across of the readings.
Learning materials
1 Veeck, Gregory and Clifton Pannell. 2016. “Agriculture: From Antiquity to Revolution to Reform ” in Veeck et al. Pp. 241-266.
2 NGS How China Plans to Feed 1.4 Billion Growing Appetites
https://www(dot)nationalgeographic(dot)com/magazine/2018/02/feeding-china-growing-appetite-food-industry-agriculture/
3 Farming the World: China's Epic Race to Avoid a Food Crisis
https://www(dot)bloomberg(dot)com/graphics/2017-feeding-china/
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China’s Agriculture
China boasts of the world’s leading research and development in husbandry, aquaculture, and agriculture. Although China’s agricultural output is the largest in the world, “the sector suffers greatly from uneven development across geographical regions.” (Veeck, Gregory, & Clifton 246). The significant change affects both technologies and products in most parts of China. Most scholars refer to China as a country that has a deficit in natural resources. For example, the water resource is only 30% of the global average. China’s agricultural sector seems threatened by the lack of natural resources, and the Chinese Government has come up with measures to protect the ‘land use production system.’
The Chinese government needs to strengthen its production by investing in the control and prevention of disasters. The intention is to increase agriculture’s capital construction. In response to the land resource issue, the Government has increased the management of land state resources. The emphasis is on the protection of land resources due to the shortage of cultivated land in C...
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