Food security and the modernisation pathway in China: towards sustainable agriculture

This volume provides students, experts and practitioners with a detailed overview of agricultural and food security issues in China, analysed through the lenses of a multidisciplinary approach that enables to fully grasp the current socio-political challenges and lock-ins of agricultural transformation towards more sustainable practices.

Confronted with a running decrease and degradation of its resources and rapidly evolving food habits, China became a net importer of food in 2004, and its agricultural balance has since become heavier every day.