Global efforts to ensure food security

Feeding the world: Villagers drying corn in Zhangye, Gansu province in September. China has fed nearly 20% of the world’s total population with just 9% of the world’s farmland. — China Daily/ANN

BEIJING: China will intensify international cooperation with other countries to jointly fight hunger and ensure global food security, said a white paper.

The country will also continue to expand and diversify sources of food imports to balance its own food security, said the white paper titled Food Security in China, released by the State Council Information Office.