China’s intensifying focus on food security | FT Food Revolution
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- Опубліковано 20 січ 2024
- Rapid urbanisation across the world’s second largest economy has meant less room for agriculture. China has become increasingly reliant on foreign suppliers like Brazil, and the FT's Eleanor Olcott explains why Beijing is diversifying its sources of imported goods to protect the inflow of staples such as corn, soybeans and rice.
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Food is more important than gold
Not really but food security & maintaining established supply chains that are predictable in quantity & price are worth more than gold
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I love how FT is deliberately trying to paint a darker picture about a topic which is a worldwide issue. Love the light filters to add a sense of gloom and doom. We can't forget the voice actor's outstanding performance at conveying the feeling of hopelessness in a sad monotone.
Does the UK produce enough food for its own residents( most don't belueve citizenship means anything anymore) Despite the smaller population can it feed itself?
Many Chinese are emigrating to the UK
@@user-4m9-dr80h4I thought the English government invited Chinese from Hong Kong to migrate to the U.K.
sack newton leng
How’s newton doing?
@@davidf2118 okay buttercup 💋
Sustainable Agriculture with Water Reservoirs.
That's not food dependency rather protein dependency. More than half of the crop are used as animal feed instead of direct consumption. China also develop coal to protein process to solce the animal feed problem. It really isnt a big deal.
Compare to india china has far better food security
China is the second largest importer of Indian rice
@@au-delabattleworld9051 broken rice for livestock food
@@widodoakrom3938 The cattle are intended to feed the Chinese population and as it says in the video: "we will fall under others' control if we do not hold our rice bowl steady".
China also exports rice to feed its population.
Food is more important than water, sustainable agriculture and with water reservoirs
Wrong
Food security is a must for China. Can't say the same for the US/UK.
US is the largest food producers in the world kiddo. China on the other hand, relies on the US for most of its food 😂
@@nntflow7058 I'm in my 50s and lived through the Vietnam War. Who are you calling kiddo. I bet that you have never left your hometown.
@@namelesswarrior4760 😂 😂 Liar liar pants on fire kiddo.
@@nntflow7058 just another Forrest Gump without the nice part.
@@namelesswarrior4760 That's a reference a 9 year old would make 😂 😂
Now that we know the now-infamous mainlander secret police/ intimidation agent that blew his cover at St Pancras works for you guys (or claims to), what is your official statement on his behavior??
Please tell us where FT stands, so we can better decide where to get reliable news .
Who is Newton Leng? The job title being a "consultant" just adds a perfect layer to his role in the Confucius Institute and revolting public display of false allegations, violations of rights, and victim-claiming shrill shrieks. Just the type of man you can trust to deliver the truth.
Driven by scientists say.... as if its not trie
That's a very long, expensive, complex, and highly vulnerable supply system for a necessity.
With such a hazardous strategic deficiency you would think China would have been a little less belligerent under Jin Ping!
They can get from Russia don't worry.
Good exampke
Soya one main. Ingredient in Asia
Who is controlling may 80 pct of the business in the world from Crop to intermediate product or final. One Cargill USA one the biggest Starch and pokyol maker in the world plus Wheat and Soya beans etc
I don't get the doom and gloom vibe of the video. Sounds like there isnt a problem yet, China has anticipated that there could be one oneday and so well in advance of that potential problem becoming a real one China has been putting a lot of policy and investment effort into preventing that outcome in a way that looks likely to be highly sucessful. So whats the issue?
Also the video presents the growing per capita food consumption in China as part of the problem of food security. But why would that be? Food security isnt about producing as much food as your fatest citizens enjoy eating. Its about producing enough food to stop your population from starving or becoming malnourished during a crisis. So if there was such a crisis, how excessivly your population eats during a non crisis period isnt relevent.
80% of their groundwater isn't potable because they pumped industrial effluents into their aquifers. We wish them well.
Source?
They can eat tofu dreg real estate buildings, streets upon streets formally farmlands
What food China does grow is highly dependent on industrial fertilizers that needs to be imported, a double whammy. If China wete to ever lose its maritime trade routes, it gets cut off from some food, loses the fertilizers to maintain the crop yields it already has, and the fuel need to process or transport those crops to the cities.
they cant make their own fertilizer?
@@kimeli
Depends on the fertilizer. Industrial scale nitrogen fertilizer requires natural gas as the input material. China imports it natural gas. They do not have enough to satisfy their nitrogen needs. Rice crops are nitrogen intensive.
If it is that important to China....thier government must offer the "contract growing" system for rice, fruit and veggies. These Chinese Agriculturists must be paid upon delivery and availability of these foods. Plus Chinese government must distribute the foods to public markets or supermarkets and groceries all over China. I think they should use the Blockchain for this....
Government is not great at that, let the market work itself
I suggest you to list Chinese production of pork, vegetable, fruit, fish, and crops, then compare it with other countries.
CCP are comprised of smart, hard working humanistic people 👍👍☺☺
The growth of the cuinese economy in the last decade or two is superficial and artificial. China is a country overgrown, overpopulated, not capable of self sufficiency. When chinese delegates visit other countries with an air of power and arrogance, behind those faces is a plead for good luck and the "encounrer" of another "believer" in its "power" that can supply it with food and many other raw materials of which China is highly dependent.
China, as it is, in the oath it has chosen, it has short span.
what country is self sufficient?
I wish the financial times resembled its in print version. This is a total school project. C- Becky
Short attention span seeking. Boop bip music , motion sickness animations
and 16yr old narrator with very little data & is there a lot more on this topic. Yes
You are aware of the existence of better content.
step up or just keep printing papers, you are too monochrome to go woke
Lei's real talk or China Insights cover this subject.
India don't have to work hard to feed people. That's why India is more capable to become the next superpower.
cause they can't afford food?
In 20 years they will be in the same situation.
India is 110/125 on the world hunger index..
@@ScoobyDoo-zp1sqthey don't need to work hard to feed people and if they do, that'll be nice.