ABSTRACT
This chapter links China's food security to world food security. Recently, there have been renewed concerns as to whether China can feed itself following the fast increase in its food imports since 2010. China's grain self-sufficiency ratio (SSR) is unlikely to decline by a great deal if its farms become larger and if investments in agricultural infrastructure and R&D are adequate. When the global market is disaggregated into regions, then changes in China's food demand and supply will have different impacts on food-secure and food-insecure regions. In recent years, agriculture in China has been encouraged to "go out" through investment in other countries. China still exports food. There is a risk that unsafe or contaminated foods produced in polluted environments or using ingredients that are contaminated will be exported to other countries. In recent times, China has become a leader in public investment in agricultural R&D and so is likely to be an important source of new agricultural technologies.
