Sustainable Path of Food Security in China under the Background of Green Agricultural Development

Yinglei Deng () and Fusheng Zeng
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Yinglei Deng: Economic College, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China
Fusheng Zeng: Economic College, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 3, 1-17

Abstract: In light of the increasing global food crisis, this study concentrated on the complex causality of sustainable food security in China. In the context of the agricultural green transformation, a comprehensive evaluation system of agricultural green development is constructed on China Yearbooks’ economic data and agricultural greening indices from 2012 to 2020. In addition, the coupling coordination degree model and fuzzy-set quantitative analysis are used to describe the path evolution of sustainable food security development in China. The results revealed that: (1) the comprehensive assessments were increased in recent years, and high score regions changed apparently, from the periphery to midland; (2) China’s green development and agricultural economic potential are currently in a transitional phase from basic to moderate synergy, and the higher coordinated degree is allocating to mid and southern areas during this period, and all of them keeps growing as well; and (3) under modern food security framework, the emphasis of China has gradually shifted from grain output and subsidy policies to high resources utilisation and human capital accumulation. Thus, China’s agricultural green transformation and sustainable food security are mutually reinforcing.

Keywords: agricultural green transformation; food security; sustainable development; qualitative comparative analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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