from southerntimesafrica......
"China is now the second biggest food consumer in the world after the USA and economists expect that by 2015, its food expenditure will double to over US$1 trillion.
However, the rapid pace of urbanization and industrialization has swallowed much of the country’s farmland and has diminished water tables. Analysts say China lost nine million hectares of farmland between 1996 and 2006.
Evidence of China increasingly looking for external sources of nutrition abound"......READ MORE
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