Rozelle, Scott; Deng, Xiangzheng; Huang, Jikun; Uchida, Emi - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2005
In China, there is a growing debate on the role of cultivated land conversion on food security. This paper examines the … changes of the area of cultivated land and its potential agricultural productivity in China using satellite images. We find … that between 1986 and 2000, China recorded a net increase of cultivated land (+1.9%), which almost offset the decrease in …