China has to feed 20% of the global population with only about 5% of the planet's water resources and 7% of its arable land. With such limited natural conditions, however, China's grain production has increased from about 200 kg per capita in 1949 to about 400 kg in the early 1990s. Hunger as a social problem has largely disappeared after being prevalent in China for several thousand years with...

Objective: To evaluate the relationship between water use of countries and coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) data in order to establish effect dynamics on COVID-19 pandemics. Material Methods: The country-based consumption per capita (WC) indices [total cases 1 million population (CI-C) deaths (CI-D)] collected from Worldometer website Global Competitiveness Scores Report 2019 World Economic ...

The per capita availability of agricultural land was 0.43 ha in 1960 and declined to 0.26 ha in 1999. Significant per capita declines are projected in the availability of another essential natural resource for agriculture water. At the same time, the world must increase its food production by some 70% by 2050 to meet the needs of its growing population projected to reach 9.2 billion then [Bruin...