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Chinese grain imports to strain world food supply

2013-10-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: China's growing demand for grain imports will place new strains on a world food supply already stretched thin by plateauing farming yields, over-used aquifers and climate change, according to a leading expert on food security and water. Lester Brown, founder and president of the Earth Institute and author of several books on food security, said during a teleconference this week that changing Chinese appetites and losses of farmland to industrialisation mean China will need to look abroad for an...

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