The increasing demand for food and bio-fuel and the decrease in both crop yield and storage around the globe due to natural disasters, has caused global food prices to shoot up. Climate change may further deteriorate the situation. For China, this means serious consequences for food production. Taking into consideration increased demands for food in the future, climate change will affect the country’s ability to balance food supply and demand. Under a high greenhouse gas emission scenario, basic food supplies will become insufficient around 2030. Under a mid to low emission scenario, this problem may not occur but it may not be possible to meet the food requirements for sustainable social development.
Therefore, it becomes especially important to devise suitable policies to adapt to these scenarios, which include better irrigation, more appropriately selected seeding times, and alternating among different crops.
Meanwhile, more emphasis should be placed on ecological agriculture, which is a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture while ensuring production yield.

By: Greenpeace China

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