{"title":"Strategic cropland reserves can strengthen China’s food security","authors":"Jichang Han, Brett Anthony Bryan, Yang Zhang","doi":"10.1038/s43016-024-01015-9","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Policies for supporting domestic grain production propose converting large areas of marginal and low-grade arable land into strategic cropland reserves. This process will require advances in science and land engineering, and presents opportunities to revitalize social, economic and ecological systems in rural China.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"5 7","pages":"535-538"},"PeriodicalIF":23.6000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nature food","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-024-01015-9","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Policies for supporting domestic grain production propose converting large areas of marginal and low-grade arable land into strategic cropland reserves. This process will require advances in science and land engineering, and presents opportunities to revitalize social, economic and ecological systems in rural China.