Protect arable land, says UN

0 CommentsPrint E-mail Xinhua, October 16, 2010
Adjust font size:

China should redouble its efforts to protect enough arable land to produce grain for its growing population and meet the expanding demands of its middle class, a senior UN official has said.

Kanayo F. Nwanze, president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, said Chinese leaders have been faced with a two-fold challenge in feeding the country's population, even though Beijing has attached great importance to high-tech input into agriculture for years.

"For China, limited access to agricultural land but a growing population has always been a challenge," Nwanze told China Daily as China's leaders convened in Beijing to determine the development blueprint for the next five years.

 

?Primary school students help local farmers hang corn in the sun in Dexing city, Jiangxi province, on Friday. [China Daily]

Meanwhile, a ceremony was held on Friday in the organization's headquarters in Rome to unite the world's efforts in fighting hunger, which affects almost one billion people.

Nwanze said China has a population of more than 1.3 billion, which is 17 percent of the world's total, but it has less than 9 percent of the world's agricultural land.

"So, the biggest challenge is to have access to agricultural land to feed its growing population," he said.

China has already decided to increase urbanization and, by 2020, 300 million people - equal to the population of the United States - are expected to move into cities. Meanwhile, industrial development has also used large amounts of land, despite the fact that the government has decided to protect at least 120 million hectares of arable land.

However, Nwanze said the other challenge is that, with rapid economic growth and an expanded middle class, Chinese people are likely to change their dietary preferences from mainly vegetables to more meat.

Official figures show that it takes up to eight kilograms of grain to produce one kilogram of beef and five kilograms of grain to produce one kilogram of pork.

"All these rely on more grain and, as you are going to adapt from high vegetable diets to more meat diets, your consumption of grain will increase," said Nwanze.

But he said China has intensively used high technology in agriculture, which has boosted production and yields for years.

"What the world should learn from China is that you have a solid agricultural background," said Nwanze.

On Friday, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations appointed Italian actor Raoul Bova, Canadian singer Cline Dion, Filipino singer Lea Salonga and American actress Susan Sarandon as Goodwill Ambassadors to help in the global fight against hunger.

They joined the World Food Day ceremony in Rome, which takes as its theme "United Against Hunger".

This year is a significant one in the world's fight against global hunger because it marks 30 years since the first World Food Day and 65 years since the founding of the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization.

But Nwanze said the fact that nearly a billion people remain hungry, even after the recent food and financial crisis have largely passed, indicates a deeper structural problem.

 

Print E-mail Bookmark and Share

Go to Forum >>0 Comments

No comments.

Add your comments...

  • User Name Required
  • Your Comment
  • Racist, abusive and off-topic comments may be removed by the moderator.
Send your storiesGet more from China.org.cnMobileRSSNewsletter
主站蜘蛛池模板: 欧美性猛交xxxx乱大交| 色偷偷成人网免费视频男人的天堂| 天堂网最新版www| 久久久噜噜噜久久熟女AA片| 欧美大片AAAAA免费观看| 人人妻人人澡人人爽曰本| 精品欧美一区二区三区四区| 国产亚洲精彩视频| 国产香蕉一区二区精品视频| 国产精品自产拍高潮在线观看| jizz国产在线观看| 成人a视频片在线观看免费| 久久99精品久久久久子伦小说| 日韩在线视频不卡| 亚洲av无码片一区二区三区| 欧美日韩精品一区二区三区高清视频| 免费a级毛片大学生免费观看| 精品日韩二区三区精品视频 | 性感的瑜伽教练| 丰满人妻一区二区三区视频53| 日韩中文无码有码免费视频| 五月婷婷在线播放| 机机对在一起30分钟软件下载| 亚洲国产精品sss在线观看AV | 97视频在线观看播放| 大香伊蕉在人线国产75视频| xxxxx野外性xxxx| 婷婷人人爽人人爽人人片| 一级毛片视频免费| 成年人性生活视频| 中文字幕资源在线| 无需付费大片在线免费| 久久久久久久综合| 日本三级午夜理伦三级三| 久久亚洲国产精品五月天| 日本在线理论片| 久久久无码一区二区三区| 日本人成18在线播放| 久久久噜噜噜久久中文福利| 日本三级中文字版电影| 久久久久国产精品免费免费搜索 |