Tag: Agriculture
Will Urban Sprawl Affect China’s Food Security?
At the Guardian, Jonathan Kaiman looks at the town of Nanzhuang, south of Beijing, where hundreds of farms will be destroyed to make way for the world’s largest airport. With agricultural land giving way to development projects all over the country, it is unclear where China will find the capacity to grow enough food to feed its expanding population: Nanzhuang’s story is in many ways the story of rural China. For the past three decades an onslaught of urban development,February 15, 2015
