¿Es importante la comida en China? Cuestiones de política agrícola moderna

China's economic success, due to the 1978 economic reforms, has as one of its central elements agriculture. In order to achieve self-sufficiency in wheat, corn, and rice, central planning is the axis of production and a strategic element. Nonetheless, this model faces important restrictions, such as a high caloric inefficiency in the food pattern, relative shortage and pollution of soil and water, desertification, changes in land use that favour industrialization and urbanization. In order to cope with these problems, Chinese government makes important investments in order to broaden its agricultural frontier and to maintain the goal of self-sufficiency, mostly in African and Latin American countries. But we wonder if this trend can last.