Nonpoint-source pollution control and greening of China’s agrifood systems

The unsustainable agricultural production mode of “high input and high output” has imposed a heavy burden on China’s ecosystems, and severely restricted the sustainable development of the country’s agrifood systems. Taking long-term prevention and control of agricultural nonpoint-source pollution as...

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Main Authors: Gong, Binlei, Chen, Kevin Z., Fang, Xiangming, Meng, Ting, Zhou, Li, Shi, Minjun, Wang, Shuo
Format: Book Chapter
Language:Inglés
Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142966
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author Gong, Binlei
Chen, Kevin Z.
Fang, Xiangming
Meng, Ting
Zhou, Li
Shi, Minjun
Wang, Shuo
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Fang, Xiangming
Gong, Binlei
Meng, Ting
Shi, Minjun
Wang, Shuo
Zhou, Li
author_facet Gong, Binlei
Chen, Kevin Z.
Fang, Xiangming
Meng, Ting
Zhou, Li
Shi, Minjun
Wang, Shuo
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description The unsustainable agricultural production mode of “high input and high output” has imposed a heavy burden on China’s ecosystems, and severely restricted the sustainable development of the country’s agrifood systems. Taking long-term prevention and control of agricultural nonpoint-source pollution as the key approach can play an important role in upgrading country’s agriculture to circular and renewable agriculture-food-ecological system circulation. Currently, the five major sources of agricultural nonpoint-source pollution in China are livestock, poultry and aquaculture; chemical fertilizers; pesticides; crop residues; and waste plastic films. The Chinese government has issued corresponding policies and measures to carry out prevention and control at the source and end, which have achieved initial results. Its accurate grasp of direction and implementation provide lessons for other developing countries. Several years of treatments have resulted in remarkable reduction of nitrogen and phosphorus emissions from the livestock and poultry farming, but the pollutant emissions of the aquaculture are increasing, and the utilization rate of chemical fertilizers and pesticides is still relatively low compared with that of developed countries. China mainly relies on policies and legal means, and government subsidies to control agricultural nonpointsource pollution in the short term. However, more emerging options should be explored to establish a long-term mechanism to prevent and control agricultural nonpoint-source pollution and to transform the agrifood systems to become even greener, including property rights arrangements, interprovincial ecological compensation, green finance, and brand building for ecological agricultural products.
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spelling CGSpace1429662025-12-08T10:06:44Z Nonpoint-source pollution control and greening of China’s agrifood systems Gong, Binlei Chen, Kevin Z. Fang, Xiangming Meng, Ting Zhou, Li Shi, Minjun Wang, Shuo policies food policies covid-19 pollution agrifood systems pollution control The unsustainable agricultural production mode of “high input and high output” has imposed a heavy burden on China’s ecosystems, and severely restricted the sustainable development of the country’s agrifood systems. Taking long-term prevention and control of agricultural nonpoint-source pollution as the key approach can play an important role in upgrading country’s agriculture to circular and renewable agriculture-food-ecological system circulation. Currently, the five major sources of agricultural nonpoint-source pollution in China are livestock, poultry and aquaculture; chemical fertilizers; pesticides; crop residues; and waste plastic films. The Chinese government has issued corresponding policies and measures to carry out prevention and control at the source and end, which have achieved initial results. Its accurate grasp of direction and implementation provide lessons for other developing countries. Several years of treatments have resulted in remarkable reduction of nitrogen and phosphorus emissions from the livestock and poultry farming, but the pollutant emissions of the aquaculture are increasing, and the utilization rate of chemical fertilizers and pesticides is still relatively low compared with that of developed countries. China mainly relies on policies and legal means, and government subsidies to control agricultural nonpointsource pollution in the short term. However, more emerging options should be explored to establish a long-term mechanism to prevent and control agricultural nonpoint-source pollution and to transform the agrifood systems to become even greener, including property rights arrangements, interprovincial ecological compensation, green finance, and brand building for ecological agricultural products. 2021-10-15 2024-05-22T12:11:24Z 2024-05-22T12:11:24Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142966 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143122 Open Access Gong, Binlei; Chen, Kevin Z.; Fang, Xiangming; Meng, Ting; Zhou, Li; Shi, Minjun; and Wang, Shuo. 2021. Nonpoint-source pollution control and greening of China’s agrifood systems. In 2021 China and global food report: Rethinking agrifood systems for the post-COVID world, Academy of Global Food Economics and Policy, China Agricultural University (AGFEP); China Academy for Rural Development, Zhejiang University (CARD); Centre for International Food and Agricultural Economics, Nanjing Agricultural University (CIFAE); Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (IAED); International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Chapter 4, Pp. 46-63. http://agfep.cau.edu.cn/module/download/downfile.jsp?classid=0&filename=2105141928327359.pdf
spellingShingle policies
food policies
covid-19
pollution
agrifood systems
pollution control
Gong, Binlei
Chen, Kevin Z.
Fang, Xiangming
Meng, Ting
Zhou, Li
Shi, Minjun
Wang, Shuo
Nonpoint-source pollution control and greening of China’s agrifood systems
title Nonpoint-source pollution control and greening of China’s agrifood systems
title_full Nonpoint-source pollution control and greening of China’s agrifood systems
title_fullStr Nonpoint-source pollution control and greening of China’s agrifood systems
title_full_unstemmed Nonpoint-source pollution control and greening of China’s agrifood systems
title_short Nonpoint-source pollution control and greening of China’s agrifood systems
title_sort nonpoint source pollution control and greening of china s agrifood systems
topic policies
food policies
covid-19
pollution
agrifood systems
pollution control
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