Food supply and food safety issues in China

HM Lam, J Remais, MC Fung, L Xu, SSM Sun - The Lancet, 2013 - thelancet.com
Food supply and food safety are major global public health issues, and are particularly
important in heavily populated countries such as China. Rapid industrialisation and …

The impact of agricultural chemical inputs on environment: global evidence from informetrics analysis and visualization

L Zhang, C Yan, Q Guo, J Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
This paper identifies and analyzes salient research frontiers, research hotspots and high-
frequency terms using aggregated and multiple-source literature records related to the topic …

Groundwater depletion by agricultural intensification in China's HHH plains, since 1980s

X Kong, X Zhang, R Lal, F Zhang, X Chen, Z Niu… - Advances in …, 2016 - Elsevier
Sustainable use of groundwater is critical to China's present and future food security. Natural
groundwater resources of Huang–Huai–Hai plains (HHH), the region that produces 60–80 …

Cover crops promote primary crop yield in China: A meta-regression of factors affecting yield gain

F Fan, W van Der Werf, D Makowski… - Field Crops …, 2021 - Elsevier
Inclusion of cover crops (CCs) in cropping systems can improve soil quality, reduce
agricultural inputs, and improve environmental sustainability. While CCs have been widely …

Simulating the dynamics of cultivated land use in the farming regions of China: A social-economic-ecological system perspective

Y Zhu, Y Zhang, L Ma, L Yu, L Wu - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2024 - Elsevier
Greater comprehension of the intricate impacts of cultivated land use change on social and
natural systems is of paramount importance for both immediate and long-term policy …

Excessive nitrogen application dampens antioxidant capacity and grain filling in wheat as revealed by metabolic and physiological analyses

L Kong, Y Xie, L Hu, J Si, Z Wang - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
In this study, field-grown wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) was treated with normal (Nn) and
excessive (Ne) levels of fertilizer N. Results showed that Ne depressed the activity of …

China's food security situation and key questions in the new era: A perspective of farmland protection

X Liang, X Jin, B Han, R Sun, W Xu, H Li, J He… - Journal of Geographical …, 2022 - Springer
As the world's largest developing country, the ability of China's agricultural resource
utilization to effectively support the current and future food security goals has been affected …

Alternate partial root-zone drip irrigation with nitrogen fertigation promoted tomato growth, water and fertilizer-nitrogen use efficiency

R Liu, Y Yang, Y Wang, XC Wang, Z Rengel… - Agricultural Water …, 2020 - Elsevier
Irrigation and fertilization play key roles in crop production. Scarcity of available water
resources and low nutrient use efficiency calls for a need to improve water and nitrogen (N) …

Optimizing nitrogen application improves its efficiency by higher allocation in bolls of cotton under drip fertigation

Y Tian, L Tian, F Wang, X Shi, F Shi, X Hao, N Li… - Field Crops …, 2023 - Elsevier
Context Nitrogen (N) loss is becoming one of the main limitations for sustainable agricultural
production globally, particularly for crops such as cotton. Research question To alleviate this …

Rational trade-offs between yield increase and fertilizer inputs are essential for sustainable intensification: A case study in wheat–maize cropping systems in China

S Li, Y Lei, Y Zhang, J Liu, X Shi, H Jia, C Wang… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
In order to feed a population of nearly 1.4 billion people with limited arable land resources,
China's high crop production has been maintained by an intensive cropping system with …