The Coming Food Crisis
The Coming Food CrisisChina has big problem with its food production and providing it for its people. People have resorted to rice husks, hemp leaves, grass soup, toads, rats, body lice, and even their own dead. Many moves toward industrialization have put China behind in its production of food for its people. These moves toward industrialization have taken farmers off their fields and into industrial factories. The result is cropland disappearing and water becoming scarce in some areas. China�s huge population increases by about 15 million each year, even with one child per family. China�s booming economy has made some people wealthy enough to pay off government restrictions of one child per family.
China has been trying to solve this problem in many ways. It has put a restriction on the number of children a family can have, which is one. This for some families who are wealthy enough isn�t a problem. China has also looked to importing food, but this has had a dramatic effect on the world�s trade prices. If China continues to import food the international prices will skyrocket resulting in developing countries being unable to import food. In addition to importing food China has also been researching and developing so called �super rice�. This �super rice� has an increased amount of seeds on it when it matures. Thus increasing food production. The...
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