Nature research paper: Ageing threatens sustainability of smallholder farming in China
Extended Data Fig. 2 Demographic and socioeconomic changes in China under different scenarios by 2100.
Ageing ratio; Adult labour ratio; Average education years; Total population; Urban population ratio; Gross domestic product per capita . SSP1–4 refers to Shared Socioeconomic Pathways scenarios. Urbanization in SSP1 is consistent with it in SSP4 in panel . Data are from SSP Database. Extended Data Fig. 3 Future agricultural sustainability changes due to ageing under SSP scenarios by 2100.
Total agricultural input; Agricultural output; Labour productivity; Fertilizer use; Manure use; Fertilizer loss ratio; Per capita disposable income from agricultural sector; Farm size; Machine input. -, -, - show the economic, environmental and social impacts of agricultural sustainability, respectively. The Baseline assumed no changes in the future. SSP1–4 refers to Shared Socioeconomic Pathways scenarios. NF is the abbreviation of new farming.
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