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...