The Impacts of Farmland Loss on Regional Food Self-Sufficiency in Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration over Last Two Decades
| Autor: | Rui Xiao, Qingxiang Meng, Meng Lin, Xufeng Fei, Xuelin Duan |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Sustainable development
farmland loss Food security Urban agglomeration business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Science surplus and deficit of farmland resources food security Agricultural economics Scarcity Industrialisation Geography Urbanization Sustainability General Earth and Planetary Sciences multiple scales business Google Earth Engine Self-sufficiency media_common |
| Zdroj: | Remote Sensing Volume 13 Issue 17 Pages: 3514 Remote Sensing, Vol 13, Iss 3514, p 3514 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2072-4292 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/rs13173514 |
| Popis: | Food security is essential for human survival and sustainable development. Due to rapid urbanization and industrialization, the farmland loss in Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration (YRDUA) has threatened food security. Thus, this study intended to quantify the farmland loss and assess its impacts on food security in the YRDUA from 2000 to 2020 at three scales based on the Google Earth Engine platform. Our results show that the area of farmland in YRDUA is decreasing at a rather high speed in the past 20 years and the trend is getting worse. At the urban agglomeration scale, there was a farmland deficit of 0.44 million ha in 2000, followed by larger farmland deficits in 2010 and 2020. At the city scale, Shanghai had the largest scarcity of farmland. At the urban subgroup scale, Subgroup I in the west and Subgroup II in the north always maintained an oversupply of farmland, while Subgroup III in the east and Subgroup IV in the south faced serious food security problems. Our study suggests that farmland must be protected in YRDUA in order to ensure food self-sufficiency and promote regional sustainability. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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