China’s Agricultural Policy and the Urban Labor Shortage

Five Year Plan contains an important proposal that has largely been overlooked: the ‘professionalization and modernization’ of agriculture. The history of agricultural development in countries like the United States suggests the destabilizing consequences in the Chinese countryside. Bio-intensive agriculture and permaculture techniques could solve China’s food supply problem with a moderate investment in education and farm equipment.

Ben Reynolds Writer and Foreign Policy Analyst in New York via CHINA US Focus http://ift.tt/1VbLDGa