Agricultural Food System Transformation on China's Food Security

Different countries and regions in the world are experiencing structural transformation of the agri-food system, which is represented by the increase of meat and feed consumption. Based on a detailed review of the global and China's agri-food system transformation, this paper constructs an anal...

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Published in:Foods 2023-07, Vol.12 (15), p.2906
Main Authors: Zhao, Sicheng, Li, Tingyu, Wang, Guogang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adjustment
agri-food system transformation
Agribusiness
Agricultural production
Agriculture
Consumption data
Costs (Law)
coupling degree
COVID-19
Developing countries
Disease transmission
Feed grains
Food prices
Food science
Food security
Food supply
Food systems
Fraud
Genetic transformation
Imports
Industrialized nations
LDCs
Meat
Nutrition
Per capita
R&D
Raw materials
Research & development
Security management
Self sufficiency
Soybeans
Transformations
Value chain
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Summary:Different countries and regions in the world are experiencing structural transformation of the agri-food system, which is represented by the increase of meat and feed consumption. Based on a detailed review of the global and China's agri-food system transformation, this paper constructs an analytical framework of the impact of agri-food system transformation on food security and discusses the food security issues in China after 2000. The results show that the proportion of the dimension of agri-food system transformation in the food security index has a significant downward trend, and its positive effect on food security is decreasing. At the same time, due to the growth in demand for meat during the transformation of the agri-food system, China imports a large number of feed grains such as soybean and corn, leading to a decline in domestic food self-sufficiency. Furthermore, the coupling coordination degree between China's agri-food system transformation and food quantity security decreases, and their development tends to deviate. In the future, increasing the consumption of grain-saving poultry and curbing table waste are feasible strategies for China to cope with the transformation of agri-food system and ensure food security. China's problems and solutions in facing the transformation of its agri-food system can provide some references for other developing countries.
ISSN:2304-8158
2304-8158
DOI:10.3390/foods12152906