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Down on the Farm: Agriculture in China Today

February 6, 2017 By Tom Nunlist

Over the past two decades, China’s urban population growth has been higher than in the rest Asia or the world as a whole. Young people are migrating to cities, leaving the elderly and children back home on the farm. So as manufacturing and urban life took off, catapulting China to world-power status, rural China and farming lagged behind. Roughly 86% of farms in China were only 1.6 acres, a tiny fraction of the size of the average 441-acre US industrialized farm and most of the work on these small farms is done by hand by an increasingly elderly population of farmers who now average over 50 years old. But that is starting to change.

Filed Under: Agriculture, All Articles, Chinese Economy, Know China Tagged With: Agriculture, Farmland, Food Security, Structural Reform

China’s Food Imports: Hunger Games?

October 19, 2015 By Douglas Bulloch

Until recently, China had largely fed itself. Yet now the tables have turned, transforming China into the largest food importer in the world. Changing food consumption patterns in China have seen increasing demand for foreign consumer food brands outpaced by even faster growth in demand for imported agricultural products and feed stocks. This has happened despite a continuing stated policy goal of food self-sufficiency. The result has been an evolution in land use within China, greater integration of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in global wholesale markets and a subtle shift of emphasis away from self-sufficiency within China, towards prioritizing the security of the Chinese supply chain.

Filed Under: Agriculture, All Articles, Know China Tagged With: Agriculture, Consumers, Food Safety, Food Security, Import, Slider

Agriculture in China: Down on the Farm

June 5, 2014 By Matthew Fulco

Agriculture in China is still primitive and needs to be modernized quickly. But whose responsibility is that? Wang Liang is a farmer in the northeast province of Hei­longjiang, China’s top corn producer. Despite fertile soil, Wang says the small size of his plot limits his crop yield and income. Both took a hit last year […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, All Articles, Best Practice, China, Consumers, Finance, Know China, Society Tagged With: Agriculture, Chinese Consumers, Consumption, Food Safety, Foreign Investment, GDP, Modernization, Slider

CKGSB Magazine March 2014: The Digital Takeover – Internet Finance versus Traditional Banks

April 1, 2014 By CKGSB Knowledge

You are invited to download the March 2014 issue of CKGSB Magazine. You’ll enjoy articles and interviews like: COVER STORY The Money Matrix: As Chinese consumers show an increasing preference for easy-to-use internet finance, what will happen to traditional banks? SNAPSHOT: China’s Crushing Debt: How serious is China’s local debt problem? A look at the ticking time bomb. […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Airline Industry, All Articles, Automobile Industry, Best Practice, Chinese Economy, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Environment, Finance, Infographics, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Internet Finance, Know China, Technology Tagged With: Agriculture, Air Quality, Automobiles, Bitcoins, Cosmetics, Debt, Ferrari, Jonah Berger, Local Debt, Media, Phoenix Media, Rolls Royce, Smog

Bioenergy in China: Can China Learn from Germany’s Experience?

March 10, 2014 By Christoph Burger and Jens Weinmann

Germany’s experiment with bioenergy villages shows that alternative energy sources can spur rural value creation. This has lessons for bioenergy in China. Despite signals of weaker growth of the Chinese economy, China’s appetite for energy is untamed. The International Energy Agency predicts that more than 1,300 GW of power generation will be added until 2035–equaling the capacity of […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, All Articles, Environment, Know China, Technology Tagged With: Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Environmental Sustainability, Germany, Renewable Energy, Shale Gas, Slider, Technology

Genetically Modified Food: A Clockwork Tomato

February 18, 2014 By Don Weinland

Will political and public opposition to genetically modified food stop China’s market from developing? It’s the Cold War again, only this time the caches are filling with grains, not missiles, and battles are mapped out on wet rice paddies instead of dry plains. At least that’s how People’s Liberation Army Major-General Peng Guangqian seems to […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, All Articles, Know China, Technology Tagged With: Agriculture, Food Safety, GM Food, Monsanto, Slider

Food Security: Serving China’s Dinner

February 4, 2014 By CKGSB Knowledge

With “food security” becoming a buzzword in China’s poliburo, where does the country turn for its most urgent food needs? In October 2013, China’s Ministry of Finance announced it would allocate RMB 600 million to boost food output and China’s food security to meet increased domestic consumption, food price inflation, urbanization and the resulting decline […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, All Articles, Infographics, Know China Tagged With: Agriculture, Food Security, Import, Infographic, Slider

Agricultural Productivity: Fields of Dreams?

November 26, 2013 By Bennett Voyles

As agricultural productivity grows, rural life continues to evolve. Factories, skyscrapers, airports–picture modernity and chances are you’ll think first of an urban landscape, or an industrial wasteland. As for the rural world, everyone knows that’s what modernity ruins: as Henry David Thoreau noted in his journal in 1852, “This winter they are cutting down our […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, All Articles, Know China Tagged With: Agriculture, economic opportunities, Poverty, Slider

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