CULTIVATING US AND CHINESE CLIMATE LEADERSHIP ON FOOD AND AGRICULTURE

11 The US and China are Food Superpowers THE US PRODUCES: CHINA PRODUCES: China's growing appetite means greater 22% 32% 30% 29% 22% 18% potential for US-China food businesses and of the world’s of the world’s of the world’s of the world’s of the world’s of the world’s beef corn soybeans rice corn wheat joint climate action 1 % 2 3000- acres 8 of the 9 5 7 m years of 1. [...] After the Glasgow climate talks, the United States United States and China joined 157 countries signing and China planned meetings to flesh out the details the Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture and Resilient in the declaration. [...] Another chal- A Path Forward lenge facing the relaunch of climate cooperation is the Most scientific research between US and Chinese growing US concern over China’s dominance in the agricultural and climate scientists was frozen after the mining and refining of the critical minerals necessary Trump administration withdrew from the Paris Climate for renewable energy and battery technologies that wi. [...] 14 Soil: The Silent Climate Fighter In the 1930s, overfarming, over-tilling, and overgrazing This proposal encourages voluntary adoption of soil in the Great Plains of the United States resulted in conservation agricultural practices to increase the the infamous Dust Bowl, which decimated 100 million amount of carbon stored in the surface layer of soil acres and forced 400,000 people to flee their. [...] The law also sets requirements for food ment of Agriculture (USDA) and EPA created the US producers, food and beverage service operators, Food Loss and Waste 2030 Champions in 2016 to industry associations, and the public.