Abstract

RODRIGUEZ Y RODRIGUEZ, María Teresa. Autosuficiencia alimentaria en China. Prob. Des [online]. 2010, vol.41, n.162, pp.103-126. ISSN 0301-7036.

Food security has been an essential component of the various socioeconomic development strategies followed by the People's Republic of China for nearly 50 years. But what began as self-sufficiency in grains within the rural village space, in the context of a closed economy with almost total isolation from the rest ofthe world evolved into a combination of policies for agriculture tending towards the preservation of national independence in the provision of basic foods, now with a broad opening to the rest of the world and a certain degree of exploitation of regional comparative advantages. The challenge for China is to preserve its food security without recurring to the earlier fanatical policies of self-sufficiency, which had economic and social costs that left their mark in terms of growing inequality between the rural and urban sectors.

Keywords : China; food security; self-sufficiency; grains; rural-urban inequality.

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