China’s Urban Gardens

There is a saying in China that goes “Food is like Heaven.” As the balance of the population shifts from the countryside to the cities so more and more people are being denied the opportunity to control their own “heaven” but is this about to change? With rising global populations and a lack of land to expand rural agriculture governments are starting to look at their cities as an unlikely place to site new farmland. D J Clark investigates how this is playing out in China.