Since the release of the report “Who will feed China?”, published in 1994 by the private environmental research organization World Watch Institute, there have been widespread concerns over China’s ability to feed its population in a sustainable and long-term manner. Against a backdrop of continued economic growth and changing consumption patterns, the World Watch Report predicted that China1 would need to rely on massive food imports, eventually leading to food scarcity on global food markets and a food crisis of global magnitude.