From
http://www.jroller.com/page/lowem/20040118#wakeup_call_on_the_food
:
China : Wakeup call on the food front
Two more things besides energy that threaten the "world's factory"
: food & water.
http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/Update31.htm
:
Under the North China Plain,
which produces half of China's wheat and a third of its corn, water
tables are falling by 3 to 10 feet per year. Along with rising
temperatures and the loss of cropland to non-farm uses, this trend
is shrinking the Chinese grain harvest, which has fallen in four of
the past five years ...
... for the first time in their history, the Chinese will be
dependent on the outside world for food supplies. And U.S.
consumers will realize that, like it or not, they will be sharing
their food with Chinese consumers.