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Src: The Asian Studies Monitor ISSN 1329-9778
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
07 Sep 1999
Can China feed
itself? A System for Evaluation of Policy Options
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
Supplied note:
"Results from a 3-year research project on China's food security. [The
site provides] tables, charts and maps on topics like Age Groups;
Business Skills; Diet Change; Disaster; Floods; Infrastructure; Land;
Pollution; Population; Urbanization; Water and many others (currently
some 150 topics listed). All are used [to answer] the question whether
China will be able to feed itself from its own resources of arable
land and water in 2025 or 2050."
Site contents: IASA; Title Page; Foreword; Introduction; Arguments; Data; FAQ;
In-depth; Summary; Conclusion; Bibliography; Web Links; Index; Help;
Thanks; About; Presentation; Order Form; Feedback; What others say.
[The study (also available as Heilig, G.K. 1999. ChinaFood. Can China
Feed Itself? IIASA, Laxenburg, CD-ROM Vers. 1.1.)concludes (unlike
investigations by Lester R. Brown) that "China has enough arable land
and water to feed its projected population of 1.48 billion in 2025 -
even at currently available levels of agricultural technology." An
Alladin's Cave of numeric and map data - ed.]
URL http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/ChinaFood/
Link suggested by: Gerhard K. Heilig (heilig@iiasa.ac.at),
forwarded by Hanno Lecher (lecher@gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online
guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: Essential
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