City farms could boost future food security

Urban agriculture could play a key role in addressing challenges to global food security as the world population grows and urbanization increases, experts and officials said at a conference in Chengdu, Sichuan province, on Saturday.

"In times of demographic change, rapidly increasing repercussions of climate change and of complicated geopolitical tensions, the global food system that feeds us all is under threat from multiple directions," said Julian Lasinger, German deputy consul general in Chengdu, noting that new approaches in agriculture and food production are urgently needed.

He made the remarks while addressing the Sino-German Conference on Innovative Approaches for Agriculture and Food Systems held in the Sichuan capital.