Table - Various Estimates of Cultivated Land

Institution / Researcher	Estimate	Year	Definition
State Statistical Bureau: Statistical Yearbook of China, 1994 (Footnote: "...the figure for cultivated land is underestimated)	95.10	1994	"Cultivated Land"
State Statistical Bureau: Statistical Yearbook of China, 1997 (Footnote: "...the figure for cultivated land is underestimated)	94.97	1997	"Cultivated Land"
State Land Administration, People's Republic of China, Beijing, 1994: China. Land Resource Use and Productivity Assessments Project. CPR/87/029. Main Report	125.23	around 1990	"Total food production area"
Prosterman, Roy L. / Hanstad, Tim / Ping Li (1996): Can China Feed Itself? In: Scientific American. November 1996, 70-76	130	?	"China's fertile land"
Smil, Vaclav (1995): Who Will Feed China? In: The China Quarterly, No. 143, 801-813	133-140	around 1990	"Arable Land"
Alexandratos, Nicos (1996): China's projected cereal deficits in a world context. In: Agricultural Economics, Vol. 15, 1-16	125	1989	"Total cultivated land"
MEDEA (led by McElroy, Michael): "Secret satellite images show that China grows crops on 47 percent more land than China officially admits." (cited from: MacKenzie, D.: China Crisis. In: New Scientist, Vol. 158, No. 2131)	139.6	?	"Crop growing area"
Wu Chuangjun / Guo Huangcheng (1994): Land Use of China. Beijing (Science Press) p. 91 (Estimate does not include horticulture land)	136.4	around 1990	"Cropland"
Sun, H. et al. (Eds.)(1994): Agriculture, Natural Resources and Regional Development in China. Nanjing: Jiangsu Science and Technology Press. p. 165 (Estimate includes horticulture land)	133.3	around 1990	"Cultivated Land"
Fischer, G. / Chen, Y. / Sun, L. (1998): The balance of cultivated land in China during 1988 - 1995. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, IR-98-047,	131,1	1995	"Cultivated Land"

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