IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan is talking about agriculture in China—and Reuters is listening. Fan said China’s leaders must stop paying farmers artificially high prices for grain if they want to mitigate the financial burden that comes with stockpiling products that consumers don’t purchase. This article focuses on IFPRI’s suggestion that food security should trump “a rigid focus on self-sufficiency.”
China must overhaul farm support policy, says think-tank (Reuters)
May 08, 2015