The construction of high-standard farmland is the foundation for guaranteeing national food security and the prerequisite for realizing grain storage on the land. Taking Yuanyang County of Henan Province as the research area, and the basic farmland patches as the evaluation units, the ecological...

As a southwestern border province of China, Yunnan is featured by the geographical advantage of proximity to the Indo - China Peninsula which is known as World Rice Warehouse, and its capital and technology are ahead of the neighboring countries of China. Therefore, to enhance its support...

Background: Little is known about the transgenerational effect of nutrition deficiency in early life. This study aimed to evaluate the associations of fetal and childhood exposure to famine of parents with their offspring's risk of overweight during childhood. Methods: This analysis included a...

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the transgenerational associations between exposure to famine in early life and obesity. Methods: This study used the longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey from 1989 to 2015. A total of 1113 fathers and 1207 mothers (946...

Food Safety Law was revised and adopted at the 14th session of the 12th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on April 24th, 2015. The law shall be entered into force on October 1st, 2015. The new law is called the strictest Food Safety Law in...

To explore the food security situation of poor ecological environment in the karst rock desertification area, taking Guizhou as an example, based on the analysis of the special natural eco-environment condition sincerely in study area, combined with the actual population scale and food consume mode ...

Chronic diseases are gradually becoming public health challenges around the world. This study was designed to explore the relationship between early life exposure to famine in China and the risk of dyslipidemia during adulthood. A total of 604 subjects born from 1955 to 1965 received a health...

Simultaneous genetic improvements in grain yield and heat stress tolerance (HST) are necessary to avoid a fall in crop yields caused by global warming during the 21st century. Future food security depends on crop breeding solutions to this challenge, especially in developing countries where the...

Background: Existing studies of the 1944-45 Dutch famine found little evidence of the association between early life malnutrition and midlife cognition. Method: Among 2446 rural participants born between 1958 and 1963 in the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, we examined effects of...

On April 2019, the United States Food and Drug Administration announced an initiative called the New Era of smarter food safety. The agency plans to incorporate the use of new technologies, tools and approaches as it continues to implement the science and risk-based requirements of the FDA Food...