Some scholars worry that large-scale farmland liberalization will affect the food supply in the next century. Huang Tsung-huang, a professor in the Graduate Institute of Economics at Tsinghua University, emphasizes that food supply is always subject to uncertainty. Consumers may be willing to absorb some costs--including the non-agricultural benefits of farmland liberalization--to preserve more farmland for future production.
也有學者憂心農地大量釋出將影響下一世紀的糧食供應安全，清華大學經濟研究所教授黃宗煌強調，糧食供給充滿不確定性，有時，消費者寧願多付一點代價，包括犧牲農地釋出帶來的非農業效益，以保留更多農地作為將來生產之用。