China's food crisis is exacerbated by world environment, covid-19, floods and corrupt officials...

As food prices have been rising over the past few months and Beijing has been feeling the pinch, part of the action taken by the Chinese government has been a massive arrest of corrupt officials, large and small, in the food system. The question is, will this work?

China has been having a systemic shortage of food. On the one hand, large tracts of good land have been polluted by industry or used as industrial land; on the other hand, the Chinese Communist Party's policy of suppressing food prices has made peasants unwilling to grow food, and a large influx of peasant workers into the cities has left much of the arable land barren. Food has been in short supply forever.

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