Agricultural Land, Feeding Yourselves (when WAR IS REAL): US v China
US Population = .330 billion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States
China Population = 1.394 billion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China
World Population = 7.8 billion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
Agricultural Land covers 38.4% of the World's land area as of 2011
Total of land used to produce food: 49,116,227 square kilometers
Arable land: 13,963,743 square kilometers
Permanent pastures: 33,585,676 square kilometers
Permanent crops: 1,537,338 square kilometers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_land
Agricultural Land (sq. km) - Country Ranking
US: 4,058,625
China: 5,277,330
https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/AG.LND.AGRI.K2/rankings
Agricultural Land (sq. km) per Billions of Persons
US: 4058625 / .33 = 12,298,863
China: 5277330 / 1.394 = 3,785,746
12,298,863 / 3,785,746 = 3.25
US has about 3 ¼ times as much agricultural land per person to feed itself than China does?
US percent of world population = .33/7.8 = 4.23%
US percent of world agricultural land = 4,058,625 / 49,116,227 = 8.3%
China percent of world population = 1.394/7.8 = 17.87%
China percent of world agricultural land = 5,277,330 / 49,116,227 = 10.7%
Food is a necessity for CHINA (all countries).
Cheap (slave) labor is NOT a necessity for the US. [MADE IN AMERICA]
China have anything NEEDED by the US?
China has a higher percentage of the world’s population than it does world’s agricultural land?
If push came to shove, if people weren’t nice and WAR IS REAL, there would be questions for China:
Live/deal w weak negotiating position for Trade?
Take over [infiltration/debt] countries for more Agricultural Land?
Reduce Chinese population drastically?
China: limited farming space, problem throughout history, leading to chronic food shortage and famine.
About one tenth of China's farmland is contaminated with heavy metals
Chinese dependence on imported food is expected to accelerate as the water shortage worsens
[Developing Nation]: China, relatively low sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) standards for its agricultural goods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_China
Trump wants WTO to end China’s ‘developing nation’ status
https://nypost.com/2020/08/10/trump-says-he-asked-wto-to-end-chinas-developing-nation-status/
China buys more US farm products amid plunge in trade
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/14/china-buys-more-us-farm-products-amid-plunge-in-trade.html
'American Soil' Is Increasingly Foreign Owned
“Smithfield Food buyout has really raised concerns with American farmers. As part of that 2013 sale, a Chinese company now owns 146,000 acres of prime U.S. farmland”
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/27/723501793/american-soil-is-increasingly-foreign-owned
China started to buy aggressively agriculture land abroad: French wheat.
26 February 2018
https://www.farmlandgrab.org/post/view/27910-china-started-to-buy-aggressively-agriculture-land-abroad
China: how to feed nearly one-fifth of the world’s population with less than one-tenth of its farmland
334 million acres of arable land: roughly 37 million are polluted or set aside for restoration.
1.4 billion people to feed: giant farms that fuel Western diets are nearly impossible to replicate here.
Much of China’s terrain is mountains or desert
Farmland split among about 200 million farms
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/02/feeding-china-growing-appetite-food-industry-agriculture/
China’s Epic Race to Avoid a Food Crisis
China’s efforts to buy or lease agricultural land in developing nations: building farms and ranches abroad won’t be enough
China’s so-called land grab: bought/leased land in countries like Mozambique to secure grain supplies
About 1 acre (half a hectare) to feed average U.S. consumer. China has about 0.2 acres of arable land per citizen, including fields degraded by pollution.
almost 20 percent of China’s remaining arable land is contaminated
"China needs to import as it is unable to produce everything from its limited farmland,”
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-feeding-china/
Goodbye Petrodollar, Hello Agri-Dollar?
“agri-dollar revolution, China…will fail epically and very violently, unless it is able to find a way to feed its massive, rising middle class in a cheap and efficient manner”
China: huge disadvantage as it accounts for 20% of the world’s population, but only 7% of arable land
“a suddenly very food trade deficit-vulnerable China”
China: competitive trade disadvantage, especially its primary nemesis: the USA.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-24/goodbye-petrodollar-hello-agri-dollar