{"id":181343,"date":"2015-02-15T22:04:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T06:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=181343"},"modified":"2015-02-17T00:20:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T08:20:43","slug":"will-urban-sprawl-affect-chinas-ability-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2015\/02\/will-urban-sprawl-affect-chinas-ability-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Urban Sprawl Affect China’s Food Security?"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the Guardian, Jonathan Kaiman looks at the town of Nanzhuang, south of Beijing<\/strong><\/a>, 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:<\/p>\n

\nNanzhuang\u2019s story is in many ways the story of rural China. For the past three decades an onslaught of urban development, desertification, and pollution has been eating away at the country\u2019s once-endless sprawl of tiny farms. For different people this transformation poses different questions. Nanzhuang\u2019s villagers wonder what they\u2019ll do once their fields are under tarmac. The Beijing government wonders how it will keep its citizenry fed. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou have urbanisation \u2014 people travel abroad,\u201d says Susan Chan Shifflett, an expert on China\u2019s food security, from the Wilson Centre in Washington DC. \u201cThey go to France, they see cheese, and they think, \u2018why can\u2019t I have brie in China?\u2019 They\u2019re changing their diets \u2014 meat consumption has quadrupled over the past 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

[…] Meanwhile, China must feed a fifth of the world\u2019s population with about 7% of its arable land, according to the UN\u2019s food and agriculture organisation, and nearly half of that land has been \u201cdegraded\u201d by decades of unchecked development. \u201cIt\u2019s a zero-sum game,\u201d Shifflett continued. \u201cYou have less and less resources, but more and more people who need them.\u201d [Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As China tries to maximize it agricultural output by relying on huge supply chains, food safety has become a major concern, both domestically and globally. A recent shipment of berries packed in China has reportedly caused a Hepatitis A outbreak in Australia<\/strong><\/a>, according to the South China Morning Post:<\/p>\n

The department of health in Australia\u2019s Victoria state confirmed the contamination in the latest case had been traced back to China.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe particular risk that we\u2019ve identified here is that a country that has endemic hepatitis A, that is China, has been involved with packing these berries,\u201d Finn Romanes, the department\u2019s senior medical adviser, told Australian Broadcasting Corp radio.<\/p>\n

\u201cClearly there\u2019s strong evidence that there may have been a contamination during the packing process as they are fully sealed and then transported to Australia.\u201d [Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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