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Environmental Change and Food Security in China (Hardcover, Edition.)
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Environmental Change and Food Security in China (Hardcover, Edition.)
Series: Advances in Global Change Research, 35
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Abstract This chapter defines food security as the condition
reached when a nation's population has access to sufficient, safe,
and nutritious food to meet its dietary needs and food preferences.
It stresses China's importance to global food security because of
its population size. The chapter introduces the contents of the
volume and then treats briefly food security in ancient and
dynastic (211 bc-1912) China. It examines environmental stressors,
such as population growth, natural disasters, and insect pests as
well as imperial responses (for example, irrigation, flood control,
storage and transportation systems). The chapter also briefly int-
duces the Republican era (1912-1949) and compares environmental
stressors and government responses then to those of the imperial
period. Keywords Food system * Food security * Food production
regions * Environmental stressors (Population growth * Natural
disasters * Insect pests and Plant diseases * Deforestation *
Climate change) * Irrigation systems * Flood control * Grand Canal
1. 1 The Problem of Food Security and Environmental Change Food is
the material basis to human survival, and in each nation-state,
providing a system for the development, production, and
distribution of food and its security is a primary national
objective. Many forces have influenced the food security of peoples
since ancient times, with particular challenges from natural
disasters (floods, famines, drought, and pestilence) and growing
populations globally.
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