Further utilization of global agricultural resources and the expansion of potential international cooperation space are necessary measures to promote a new level of China's national food security and optimize the ...Further utilization of global agricultural resources and the expansion of potential international cooperation space are necessary measures to promote a new level of China's national food security and optimize the structure of domestic food consumption.This study measured the global potential cultivated land area and national grain self-sufficiency.Based on the two-above measures,the authors made a classification of China's foreign agricultural cooperation countries and depicted the spatial pattern of cooperation based on the grain trades of those countries with China.The:grain exporters include Australia,North America,South America,Eastern Europe and Central Asia;and the target countries for "going abroad"of Chinese grain enterprises are mainly located in Sub-Saharan Africa and northern Latin America.This study proposes that China's policy of cooperation on grain should be shifted to non-traditional partners alongside the "Belt and Road Initiative"region.Specifically,China could expand grain imports from Russia,Kazakhstan,Ukraine and other East European and Central Asian countries,and the direction for China's agricultural enterprises "going abroad"should shift to Sub-Sahara Africa.展开更多
基金The Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA19030200)The Key Deployment Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences(KJZD-EW-G20)
文摘Further utilization of global agricultural resources and the expansion of potential international cooperation space are necessary measures to promote a new level of China's national food security and optimize the structure of domestic food consumption.This study measured the global potential cultivated land area and national grain self-sufficiency.Based on the two-above measures,the authors made a classification of China's foreign agricultural cooperation countries and depicted the spatial pattern of cooperation based on the grain trades of those countries with China.The:grain exporters include Australia,North America,South America,Eastern Europe and Central Asia;and the target countries for "going abroad"of Chinese grain enterprises are mainly located in Sub-Saharan Africa and northern Latin America.This study proposes that China's policy of cooperation on grain should be shifted to non-traditional partners alongside the "Belt and Road Initiative"region.Specifically,China could expand grain imports from Russia,Kazakhstan,Ukraine and other East European and Central Asian countries,and the direction for China's agricultural enterprises "going abroad"should shift to Sub-Sahara Africa.
