Food security and farm land protection in China / Mao Yushi, Zhao Nong, Yang Xiaojing ; [in-house editor, Dong Lixi].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mao, Yushi.

Contributor:

Zhao, Nong.

Yang, Xiaojing.

Lixi, Dong.

Series:

Series on Chinese economics research ; v. 2.

Series on Chinese economics research, 2251-1644 ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Economic aspects--China.

Agriculture.

Land use, Rural--China.

Land use, Rural.

Agriculture and state--China.

Agriculture and state.

Food supply--China.

Food supply.

Food supply--Government policy--China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (386 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific Pub., c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

News: Mao Yushi, one of China's most outspoken and influential activists for individual rights and free markets, has been named the 2012 winner of the Cato Institute's Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty . 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...

Contents:

About the Authors; Editorial Committee; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Chapter 1. Research on the Total Area, Structure and Quality of China's Cultivated Land; 1 Introduction; 2 The Current Situation of China's Cultivated Land; 2.1 China's land and agricultural land: Categories and total area; 2.2 Distribution of China's cultivated land; 2.3 Total area and classification of China's cultivated land; 3 Changes in China's Cultivated Land Area since its Establishment; 3.1 Changes in China's cultivated land area since its establishment: Domestic statistics

3.2 Changes in China's cultivated land area since its establishment: International statistics from FAO 3.3 Causes of changes in cultivated land area and reliability analysis of relevant data; 3.3.1. 1949-1957: Significant increase of cultivated land area; 3.3.2. 1958-1960: Drastic decrease of cultivated land area; 3.3.3. 1960-1978: Reliability of statistics comes under question; 3.3.4. 1979-1999: The continual decrease of cultivated land area shown by statistics is questionable; 3.4 Partial correction to the total area of cultivated land

3.5 The trend of changes of China's cultivated land area per capita 4 Structural Changes of China's Cultivated Land Area; 4.1 Structural changes of China's cultivated land before the 1980's; 4.2 Structural changes of cultivated land from 1980's-1990's; 4.3 Structural changes of cultivated land since 1996; 5 The General Situation of China's Cultivated Land Quality; 5.1 The current situation of China's cultivated land quality; 5.2 Impacts of cultivated land use changes on cultivated land quality; 6 Conversion of Cultivated Land to Forests Program

6.1 The background of conversion of cultivated land to forests program 6.2 Progress of conversion of cultivate land to forests program; 6.2.1. Pilot demonstration stage, 1999-2001; 6.2.2. Program implementation stage, 2001-2010; 6.3 The impacts of conversion of cultivated land to forests and grassland on food security; Appendix; Chapter 2. The Unsuccessful Cultivated Land Protection System; 1 Increasingly Enhanced Cultivated Land Protection System versus Increasingly Decreased Cultivated Land Area; 1.1 Cultivated land protection system in China; 1.1.1. Principles of direct policies

1.1.2. Means of realization of direct policies1.1.3. Indirect policies; 1.1.4. The counteracting policy of returning cultivated land to forests; 1.2 What is wrong with the policies?; 1.2.1. Defaults in principles of cultivated land protection; 1.2.2. Local governments' gaming ability counteracts the effects of laws and policies of the central authorities (quoted from The Implementation and Protection of Property Rights of Land in the Process of Urbanization by Zhao Nong)

1.2.3. The dynamic equilibrium between occupation and reclamation of cultivated land lacks assessment on scientific basis and standards

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-299-46234-0

981-4412-06-6

OCLC:

840414011