Citation
(2011), "… And just to re-inforce that message", International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Vol. 60 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijppm.2011.07960dab.007
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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… And just to re-inforce that message
Article Type: News From: International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Volume 60, Issue 4
One of China’s oldest worries is that the country might stop being able to feed itself and start to depend on imported food.
In these days of rising wealth, the problem is not whether China will actually starve. It is how long it can sustain its declared aim of self-sufficiency in grain–a long-standing keystone of communist party agricultural policy. China’s growing appetite for food imports has already sent ripples in the last year through international markets for corn, wheat, and rice.