China food security: how’s it going and why’s it important?

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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Why is China’s food security important?China needs to feed its 1.4 billion people, around one fifth of the world’s population.The memory of China’s Great Famine that swept the country from 1958-62 is still rooted in the hearts of older generations. Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward, a radical agricultural campaign, was supposed to lead China into a communist utopia through rapid industrialisation and collectivisation, but it led to the death of tens of millions of people.And in a turbulent post…

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