Food Security and Farm Land Protection in China

The objective of publishing this book is to let the general public have a better understanding of the food security situation in China and better comprehension of the merit of allocating land through market mechanism. In addition, it makes the public aware of the inefficiencies of current government regulated land system.

As a populous country in the world, China emphasizes too much importance on food to ensure peoples sufficient consumption. There is a national policy to protect farm land, farm land protection refers to 18 hundred million mu of farmland which is specifically designated for food production only. Unirule defined the national food security as the capability to solve food shortages, and calculated the gap between food supply and demand. Two approaches can be used to solve the above food gap. Food security problems will not happen under situations of free trade and factors substitution in market economy, substantial storage and foreign exchange income. In modern China, food insecurity or great famine only happened in planned economy. To link tightly farm land size and grain yield and even food security is baseless both in theory and practices. The previous red line of 21 hundred million mu was already broken through. The current red line of 18 hundred million mu will also be broken through, in view of the process of industrialization and urbanization. In fact, farm land protection should focus on protecting the employment right of peasant in land. Contents
Research on the Total Area, Structure and Quality of Chinas Cultivated Land
The Unsuccessful Cultivated Land Protection System
Free Trade of Property Rights of Land is an Effective Land-Saving System On Property Rights of Land Transaction System Reform
Literature Review on Food Security
Analysis on the Causes and Results of the Great Famine of China (19591961)
Retrospect and Prospect of Chinas Food Trade
Chinas Grain Distribution
International Food Security and Food Trade
Measurement of Food Security Food Gap
Domestic Solutions to Chinas Food Shortage
International Solutions to Chinas Food Shortage

Author/Editor Details
Yushi Mao, The Unirule Institute of Economics, China
Nong Zhao, The Unirule Institute of Economics, China & Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
Xiaojing Yang, The Unirule Institute of Economics, China