Posted on 09/02/2023 4:08:40 AM PDT by FarCenter
Extreme rainfall responsible for an 8% fall in rice crop yields over past two decades, exacerbating food insecurity concerns
Over the past four decades, China has made significant achievements in maintaining food security through institutional reforms, technological progress and increased investment in public agricultural infrastructure.
Between 1978 and 2022, the total quantity of agricultural output grew at the rate of 4.5% per year — more than four times the population growth over the same period. In 2022, China’s total grain output reached a historical high of 686.53 million tonnes, substantially boosting its domestic food supply.
But China still faces considerable challenges in ensuring food security, with demand for high-value and high-protein products increasing along with per capita income. Constraints in land and water supply, issues with small farms, an aging rural population and extreme weather events caused by climate change can disrupt food production and distribution.
Recent studies show that extreme rainfall has led to an 8% decrease in China’s rice crop yields over the past two decades, exacerbating food insecurity concerns caused by frequent pest shocks, severe droughts and rising carbon emissions.
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Communism is endangering China’s food security
Extreme rainfall over two decades? A very weird way of putting things. Chinese statistics are not to be trusted.
“The study of Yunshan Diary finds that there was a relatively low amount of precipitation in central and southern Jiangsu Province in the summer of 1309; the winter of 1308–1309 was abnormally cold in the Taihu Lake Basin.
In the early 14th century at the latest, the climate in eastern China had begun to turn cold, which reflects the transition from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age.”
https://cp.copernicus.org/preprints/cp-2020-72/cp-2020-72-manuscript-version2.pdf
Perhaps the Dutch should keep their cows and export grain to China.
Google:
Key facts about China’s declining population
Pew Research Center
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Dec 5, 2022 — The UN forecasts that China’s population will decline from 1.426 billion this year to 1.313 billion by 2050 and below 800 million by 2100.
China’s shrinking population and constraints on its future ...
Brookings
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Apr 24, 2023 — Indeed, according to current projections, China’s population is likely to drop below 1 billion by 2080 and below 800 million by 2100. Those ...
I’ve noticed any article with climate causing something is pure BS.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/the-world-population-in-2100-by-country/
The WEF thinks Nigeria will have more people than China. And Joe Biden wants to eliminate fossil fuel use.
Maybe we should phase out fossil fools.
I suspect that the inclusion of the words “climate change” in the opening paragraphs of an article are a contributing factor for FR’s notorious failures to read the article. I pretty much stopped after seeing those words.
“extreme rainfall has led to ... concerns caused by ... severe droughts”
Soooo, climate change brought extreme rainfall, except where it gave us severe droughts. It’s almost as if they’ve set up climate change as an unfalsifiable belief system.
God controls the weather. Not man. Got a problem with the weather? Talk to God. Not politicians.
My thoughts exactly.
So have I.
Maybe the Chinese - who are the largest emitters of CO2 and burn eight times as much coal as the US - should outsource their manufacturing to Germany.
We commit regions to agriculture that have never been used to that degree before (via fertilization, irrigation…). These regions are more sensitive to normal weather pattern changes. Then we are surprised when output variations occur over decades Same thing happens in California.
And then we strain ourselves to explain that it is caused by man made global (fill in the blank).
Chinese data does not make sense. It announces that in 2022 it produced 686 million tons of grain for 1,200 million people. Easily, one would think, to feed the population and perhaps have some tonnage for exports.
However Chana announced: “China has become increasingly reliant on imports to account for changing consumption habits. Between 2003 and 2017, China’s food imports grew from just $14 billion to $104.6 billion. While food exports nearly tripled from $20.2 billion to $59.6 billion [much fish and seafood] over the same period, China increasingly finds itself running a food trade deficit.
This has prompted Beijing to openly reframe its food self-sufficiency strategy. At the Annual Central Rural Work Conference in 2013, Chinese leaders acknowledged that the country would have to supplement its domestic supply with “moderate imports” in order to meet food security needs.”
The process is called reversion to the mean
China is a flood plain. The population has occupied that flood plain
The 2022 undersea Tonga volcano has triggered extreme rainfall around the world https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/tonga-eruption-blasted-unprecedented-amount-of-water-into-stratosphere
China will try to kill off their rural elderly who are too old to work.
The Chinese regime doesn’t seem worried, but then they aren’t the target audience of this story.
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