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Four steps to food security for swelling cities

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  • Baojing Gu
  • Xiaoling Zhang
  • Xuemei Bai
  • Bojie Fu
  • Deli Chen

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Combine pockets of rural land, reduce food waste, improve farming and encourage urbanites to eat less meat, urge Baojing Gu and colleagues.

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  • Baojing Gu & Xiaoling Zhang & Xuemei Bai & Bojie Fu & Deli Chen, 2019. "Four steps to food security for swelling cities," Nature, Nature, vol. 566(7742), pages 31-33, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:566:y:2019:i:7742:d:10.1038_d41586-019-00407-3
    DOI: 10.1038/d41586-019-00407-3
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    7. Huwei Wen & Zisong Zeng, 2024. "Impact of Non-Agricultural Employment on Food Security in China’s Old Revolutionary Base Areas," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 14(6), pages 1-20, May.
    8. Liu, Yansui & Zhou, Yang, 2021. "Reflections on China's food security and land use policy under rapid urbanization," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 109(C).

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