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LAND USE POLICY
Volume 23, Issue 4, Pages 372-384Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2005.07.003
Keywords
cultivated land; land use changes; potential agricultural productivity; China
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In China there is a growing debate on the role of cultivated land conversion on food security. This paper uses satellite images to examine the changes of the area of cultivated land and its potential agricultural productivity in China. We find that between 1986 and 2000 China recorded a net increase of cultivated land (+1.9%), which almost offset the decrease in average potential productivity, or bioproductivity (-2.2%). Therefore, we conclude that conversion of cultivated land has not hurt China's national food security. We also argue that more recent change in cultivated area likely has had little adverse effect on food security. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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