A food safety factory shutdown has Americans hunting for baby formula. Readying themselves for a covid-19 lockdown, Chinese in Beijing emptied store shelves. Emerging from lockdown, some in Shanghai are visiting well-provisioned markets. U.S.-China agricultural trade is booming, but many are still being left hungry. Food security, sustainability and safety remain issues.
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Wilson Center, "A Global Choke Point Report: China's Water-Energy-Food Roadmap," February 18, 2015
February 18, 2015
This bilingual report builds on the China Environment Forum’s (CEF) extensive research in partnership with Circle of Blue, and draws heavily on a weeklong exchange with American and Chinese water, energy, and food experts that took place in China in August 2013.
Mertha, China's Water Warriors, Citizen Action and Policy Change, 2008
January 1, 2008
Andrew Mertha's book was reviewed by Baruch Boxer for H-Water and published in October 2009. We republish it here under Creative Commons license.
Whiteford and Whiteford, Globalization, Water and Health: Resource Management in Times of Scarcity, 2005.
January 1, 2006
Johann W. N. Tempelhoff reviews the book for H-SAfrica, April 2006.
Ma and Ortolano, Environmental Regulation in China: Institutions, Enforcement, and Compliance, 2000
December 31, 1999
Robert Marks reviews the book for H-Environment, August 2000, credit H-Net.
Managing Scarcity: Water and Culture in Modern China
UC Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies and Center for Chinese Studies co-host a talk by David Pietz
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