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Who Will Feed China?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Vaclav Smil
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China's recent economic surge has called attention to factors that may slow down, and perhaps even reverse, this vigorous trend. There is no shortage of items to explore, ranging from brittle politics and ingrained corruption to intensifying environmental pollution and runaway unemployment. In the long run few among these considerations are more decisive than the country's ability to feed itself: it is of critical existential importance, and it subsumes a universe of political, social, environmental and technical capabilities and limitations.

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The China Quarterly , Volume 143 , September 1995 , pp. 801 - 813
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1995

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