2012年AAG年会（中国农业与粮食安全专题）征集参会论文

2012年AAG年会将于2012年2月24-28日在美国纽约举行，届时中国地理学会将组团参加。大会提交论文截止日期将至（2011年9月28日），请拟参加者，尽快提交论文摘要，并在网上注册http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/call_for_papers，或者联合申请分会场。

著名华人地理学者、加拿大Lethbridge大学徐伟教授将组织关于中国农业与粮食安全专题分会场，欢迎国内学者报名参加。征文信息如下，供参考。

中国地理学会

2011年9月24日

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AAG  2012 CFP China’s Agriculture and Food Security

Session  Organizers: Wei Xu (wei.xu@uleth.ca)

It  has been estimated that by the end of 2009, more than one billion people  throughout the world, and particularly in developing countries, will not have  enough food to meet their basic nutritional needs. As the most populous country  in the world,Chinahas been constantly challenged  to provide its citizens with physical and economic access to sufficient and  nutritious food to meet their dietary needs for an active and healthy life.  While the economic success, achieved through economic reforms and market  transitions over the last three decades, has fostered a tremendous reduction of  poverty throughout the country, millions of people, especially in westernChina, remain below the poverty line,  and their access to sufficient food is in peril. Lester Brown’s alarming warning  “Who will feedChina?”  reminds everyone that there is an increasing threat toChina’s food  security during its course towards modernization.  With its natural constraints  and surging demand for grain in recent years, the future prospect of food  security has not changed, andChinaoften finds itself in the  middle of a raucous debate about the future of global food security. How hasChina’s agriculture changed in recent  years in response to the continuous challenges of food security? What are the  emerging factors that influenceChina’s food production chains and  agricultural sectors? This session welcomes the papers addressingChina’s Agriculture and Food Security  and related issues.

If  you are interested in presenting a paper in this session, please go to do your  conference registration at www.aag.org/annualmeeting/call_for_papers>.  You will have to first of all do "register for the meeting"  and pay the  US$295.00 conference registration fee. You will then be given a conference PIN  number. You could then use the "Activate your panelist PIN" under "Call for  Paper".

Once  you have done your registration and activated your panelist PIN, please e-mail  your confirmed PIN number to "Xu, Wei" <wei.xu@uleth.ca> before September 28 or as  soon as you could.