The government of China targeted conversion of farmland to industrial and residential uses,
especially in the most productive agricultural regions, as the chief threat to the nation's …

Urban sprawl has been at the center of current debate on urban structure. Compared to the
rich literature on urban sprawl in Western cities, relatively little is known about whether …

Land is the most important wealth of the poor and has the triple attributes of resource, asset
and capital. However, the long-term neglect of the asset and capital attributes of land in rural …

The Chinese central government launched two principal campaigns to maintain the quantity
and quality of cultivated land across the country and to continuously sustain a growing …

China's urbanization has resulted in significant changes in both agricultural land and
agricultural land use. However, there is limited understanding about the relationship …

This report is FAO's latest assessment of the long-term outlook for the world's food supplies,
nutrition and agriculture. It presents the projections and the main messages. The projections …

Decreases in both quantity and quality of cultivated land in China have drawn close
attention recently due to the threat to food security. China has implemented a set of …

In the era of state socialism under Mao, land in China was treated as a means of production
and was allocated administratively by the state free of charge. To accommodate the interests …

China has extremely scarce land resources compared to the world average. There is an
urgent need for studies of the current situation and the trends in land-use change and …

In many cases land leases are issued by the administrative village, while the land belonged
to the natural village in the past. It is like the ownership rights to land have been silently …