Promoting green transformation by ensuring food security while reducing the environmental footprint of food and farming with agriculture green development

Reconciling the challenges of producing adequate amounts of nutritious food for the increasing global population while limiting environmental damage that can result from operations of our food systems is an enormous challenge.In many parts of the world,agriculture is undergoing major transformations and this has been and still is particularly the case in China.In many countries,historical increases in food production have largely been achieved by increasing inputs of a range of resources,resulting in increased environmental footprints of the food produced.Agricultural development in China has resulted in unprecedented environmental degradation.Demand for food in China remains high and with an emphasis on national self-sufficiency in production of many food crops.There is an urgent need for the development of productive and more environmentally-friendly agricultural systems and improved environmental-economic-social resilience.