Transforming agriculture in China: From solely high yield to both high yield and high resource use efficiency

Global Food Security

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-8

  Shen, Jianbo ^a   Cui, Zhenling ^a   Miao, Yuxin ^a   Mi, Guohua ^a   Zhang, Hongyan ^a   Fan, Mingsheng ^a   Zhang, Chaochun ^a   Jiang, Rongfeng ^a   Zhang, Weifeng ^a   Li, Haigang ^a   Chen, Xinping ^a   Li, Xiaolin ^a   Zhang, Fusuo ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Agricultural transformation; Crop soil management technology; Environmental protection; Food security; Intensification; Resource use efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875165709     PISSN: 22119124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2012.12.004     Document Type: Review

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