2018 Global Food Policy Report and China Agricultural Sector Development Report Launch and Reception - Beijing, China

Despite strong economy recovery in 2017, global hunger increased as conflicts, famine, and refugee crises persisted, and rising antiglobalization sentiments across the world threatened to slow progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals and improved food security and nutrition. The 2018 Global Food Policy Report reviews the major food policy issues and developments of 2017, and highlights the challenges and opportunities for 2018 amid greater global integration and protectionist pressures. Through rigorous analysis, this report explores how policies can harness global integration to establish an open, transparent, sustainable, and inclusive food system that promotes the well-being of people and the planet.

With 40 years of economic reform and opening, China's agricultural sector has made tremendous progress. The period between now and 2035 will be critical for achieving the goals of building a moderately prosperous society and realizing socialist modernization, and will bring both new challenges and opportunities for the agricultural sector. The first-ever China Agricultural Sector Development Report assesses new trends and developments in China's agricultural sector in the context of globalization and antiglobalization, as well as the country's supply-side structural reform. The report also takes an in-depth look at impacts of the Belt and Road initiative, the food price support policy, and the environmental tax reform on China's agricultural sector, and provides a look forward.

Opening Remarks

Moderator

• Longjiang Yuan, Director General, Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development of CAAS

Speakers

• Huajun Tang, President, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
• Justin Yifu Lin, Director, Center for New Structural Economics at Peking University

Report Launch and Discussion

Moderator

• Kevin Chen, Head of East and Central Asia Office, IFPRI

Keynote Speakers

• Shenggen Fan, Director General, IFPRI
• Xurong Mei, Vice President, CAAS

Discussants

• Yinuo Li, China Country Office Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Lubiao Zhang, Director General, Agricultural Trade Promotion Center, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs
• Funing Zhong, Professor, School of Economics and Management, Nanjing Agricultural University