ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the status of China's food security and presents the structural changes in the small farm economy. It deals with institutional arrangements to enhance small farms' income as well as food security. The chapter addresses the availability of food, particularly grain, using production, consumption and international trade statistics. It explores food accessibility using data monitoring the nutrition of children living in poor rural areas. The chapter discusses constraints to the growth of food production, as well as the countermeasures that the Chinese Government has taken, and the characteristics of China's food security. Food security has always been a general concern for China, the most populous country in the world. The food grain supply, to a large extent, still relies on small farm agriculture. Since 2008, the central government has made urbanization and agricultural and rural development a tactic to counter the global financial crisis and economic slowdown, as well as a long-term strategy for sustained economic growth.
