Who Will Feed China?

Name: Who Will Feed China?
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Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet

By: Lester Brown

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Paperback | 1 August 2025 | Edition Number 1

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158 Pages

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Originally published in 1995, but with enduring relevance in a time of global population growth and food insecurity, when it was first published, this book attracted much global attention, and criticism from Beijing. It argued that even as water becomes scarcer in a land where 80% of the grain crop is irrigated, as per-acre yield gains are erased by the loss of agricultural land to industrialization, and as food production stagnates, China still increases its population by the equivalent of a new Beijing each year. This book predicts that in an integrated world economy, Chinaâs rising food prices will become the worldâs rising food prices. Chinaâs land scarcity will come everyoneâs land scarcity and water scarcity in China will affect the entire world. Chinaâs dependence on massive imports, like the collapse of the worldâs fisheries, will be a wake-up call that we are colliding with the earthâs capacity to feed us. Over time, Janet Larsen argued, Chinaâs leaders came to âacknowledge how Who Will Feed China? changed their thinking..â As Chinaâs wealth increases, so do the dietary demands of its population. The increasing middle classes demand more grain-intensive meat and farmed fish. The issue of who will feed China has not gone away.

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