COMMENT AND CONCLUSION
The price premium of 10% to 50% that Green Food achieves in China is a clear economic endorsement of China’s Green Food strategy. The fact that Green Food certification is now proliferating to food produced both inside and outside China, and for both Chinese domestic consumption and export, is further endorsement of the value of China’s Green Food strategy. The world's twentieth-century shift to high chemical-input farming was facilitated by high labor costs and low input costs, including land and chemicals, as well as a shift away from a stewardship approach to a productionist outlook, and it has been enabled by the economic treatment of environmental degradation and pesticide contaminations as externalities, rather than as costs of production. In the early twenty first century, as farm input costs rise, including as the transport and production costs of chemical pesticides and fertilizers rise, then eco-production and organic farming can become more economically attractive options. Couple this with the global increasing awareness of, and concern about, pesticide residues in food, water and the environment, and China appears to be on a winner with its grand-scale project for conversion from chemical to Green Food, and to organic production.
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