Challenges of agriculture and food systems issues in China and the United States
作者机构：Department of GeographyWestern Michigan UniversityMI 49008-5424USA Department of MarketingHaworth College of BusinessWestern Michigan UniversityMI 49008-5430USA Department of Marketingthe Business SchoolSun Yat-sen UniversityGuangzhou 510275China
出 版 物：《Geography and Sustainability》 (地理学与可持续性（英文）)
年 卷 期：2020年第1卷第2期
页 面：109-117页
学科分类：120301[管理学-农业经济管理] 12[管理学] 1203[管理学-农林经济管理]
基 金：Milton and Ruth Scherer Endowment Fund of the Department of Geography, Environment and Tourism of WMU Western Michigan University, WMU Weifang Medical University, WMU
主 题：Agriculture Food safety China United States Sino-US comparative study
摘 要：China and the United States are the two most significant nations in the contemporary global food and agricultural *** addition,they are two of the most important innovators with respect to the development of new crop varieties,agro-technologies,farm products,markets and consumer issues,such as consumer resistance to genetically modified foods,among *** the face of an ever-complex web of interactions,technologies and products among producers and consumers in both nations,there are far more structural similarities than differences in the food and agriculture sectors of these two *** essay,adopting some of the themes of the Sino-American Symposium on Future Issues Affecting Quality of Life,presents a limited but representative comparative assessment of three of the most important shared challenges impacting the agricultural sectors of China and the United States for the period from 2000 to the present including 1)environmental challenges related to agricultural water supply,2)declines in farm labor and rural population,and 3)growing food-related concerns and *** both nations,excessive and unsustainable groundwater consumption has lowered water tables and limited crop *** populations and farm workforces in both nations are also declining,leading to labor challenges in both ***,concerns regarding food safety are also very similar with major challenges to the farm sector associated with consumer resistance to genetically modified food crops and sanitation issues linked to lengthening supply *** of these issues threaten the development of sustainable agricultural production systems.
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