Ratoon rice has emerged as a promising rice cropping system to improve grain production and reduce labor costs compared with traditional single/double rice in China. However, the potential planting areas of ratoon rice in China remain unclear.

Recent economic relations including foreign assistance scenario in Africa show expansion of China and India as emerging bilateral partners, competing with traditional countries in Europe and North America.

Agrifood systems are both a contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and an important sector for achieving China’s 2060 carbon neutrality goal and mitigating climate change.

Remarkable achievements in global food security have been made in the past several decades. Food production has grown significantly and outpaced the population growth.

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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.

With rapid improvements in agricultural productivity and residents’ income, China has made remarkable advances in reducing hunger and malnutrition, as well as quality improvements in residents’ diets, witnessed by the progressively increasing cons

The formation of world-class megalopolises has been a goal of urban development agencies around the world owing to their economic advantages.

Air pollution is a major environmental issue in China.

Impacts of the central South-to-North Water Diversion on groundwater storage recovery within the context of climate variability and other policies.

The concentration of crop cultivation can be measured in terms of spatial clustering and of inequality in the distribution of the cropland area.

Understanding the patterns, processes, and causes of land use changes remains the core task and challenge of land system science (Rounsevell et al., 2012; Turner, Lambin, & Reenberg, 2007; Verburg, Erb, Mertz, & Espindola, 2013).

This paper studies the impact of six main air pollutants on three key dimensions of subjective well-being (SWB) – life satisfaction, hedonic happiness and mental health.

Insight into how the rice production system responds to external driving factors, both climate and socioeconomic.

We explore how water pollution policy reforms in China could reduce industrial wastewater pollution with minimum adverse impact on GDP growth.