Environmental costs of China’s food security

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Policy distortions, farm size, and the overuse of agricultural chemicals in China (2018, unknown): “Alternative remedies to agricultural chemical overuse have been proposed by previous studies, such as easing farmers’ access to modern technologies and knowledge (10, 11), reducing the subsidies to chemical fertilizers (12), and improving the environmental policy regulation and enforcement (22).”
Interactions between water and nitrogen in Australian cropping systems: physiological, agronomic, economic, breeding and modelling perspectives (2016, background): “Environmental aspects of the water–nitrogen interaction are important (e.g. Christianson and Harmel 2015; Norse and Ju 2015) but are not considered here.”
The Sustainability of Agricultural Development in China: The Agriculture–Environment Nexus (2018, background): “Norse and Ju [4] estimate that the economic loss due to environmental damage, such as negative impacts on the sustainability of food production and human health ranges from 7% to 10% of China’s agricultural gross domestic product, for example, the researchers identify the overuse of nitrogenous fert”