Experts have warned that China's arable land might drop below the red line of 1.8 billion mu (120 million hectares) in six years' time due to rampant illegal use. The Ministry of Land and ...

Home to 20 percent of the global population, but only 7 to 9 percent of the world’s arable land, China is an extreme food shortage. To combat the crisis, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP ...

China's arable land stood at 1.83 billion mu (27.45 billion hectares) as of October 31, 2006, a mere 26.6 million mu above the 1.8 billion mu critical mark set by the government, the National ...

soybean imports Outlook diverges sharply with US forecasts for China Lack of arable land, soil damage pose challenges China needs bigger farms to speed productivity growth BEIJING, May 23 (Reuters ...

But what, specifically, is happening to China’s arable land? And how does China plan to minimise the negative impacts of climate change on its wider food system? This summer, severe drought continued ...

arable land. China's desertification has been "primarily caused by human activities, such as overgrazing, excessive logging and excavation, overexploitation, excessive land reclamation ...

China is also the fifth largest food exporter, following the United States, the Netherlands, Brazil and Germany and is the largest exporter of vegetables, fruits and fish. A scarcity of arable land ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. China has increased its reliance on food imports over the past two decades, prompting concerns among officials who worry that ...

China: With less than 10% of the world’s arable land, China produces 25% of the world’s grain. In 2020, China was the lead producer of over 30 crops, including wheat, rice, tomatoes ...