Sino-German Agricultural Centre (DCZ)

HOLD THE DATE! We are happy to announce that the 10th Sino-German Agricultural Week (#sgaw2024) will take place from 21-23 October 2024 in Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province. Join us in celebrating ten years of successful agricultural cooperation between Germany and China. You can find more details here: https://lnkd.in/dsrV34iT #agriculture #cooperation #china #sgaw2024

Agriculture is central to combatting climate change. On Tuesday, DCZ expert Michaela Boehme discussed perspectives and opportunities for climate-friendly and green agricultural development with representatives from Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, the Center for China and Globalization, Agriculture Counsellor Friederike Dörfler from the German Embassy, as well as representatives from the business sector and climate change NGOs. The good news: there is significant political commitment on both sides to collaborate on climate action—and agriculture is an important part of it. Many thanks to Johann Caspar Fuhrmann and his team from Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung as well as the colleagues from CCG for the invitation and for keeping up the dialogue. #climateresilient #agriculture #climagechange #greenagriculture #sustainableagriculture

Last month, we took a group of Chinese experts to Germany to explore new approaches to promoting agrobiodiversity. Amongst our experts were two young activists from Foodthink—a Beijing-based civil society organization leading the debate on sustainable food system transformation in China. Here is their first in a series of articles where they share their findings and impressions from the study trip to Germany with a wider audience of concerned farmers, eaters, and activists in China. For those of you reading Chinese, check out the take-aways our Chinese experts brought back from a field day on crop diversity we jointly attended during the study trip. The field day was organized by the University of Sustainable Development Eberswalde (Fachhochschule Eberswalde) at organic farm Gut Wilmersdorf in Brandenburg: https://lnkd.in/dp_YYj4w Foodthink also run a WeChat account (in Chinese) with plenty of stories about community-led approaches for a sustainable food system in China. You can check it out here: https://lnkd.in/dJGe5DQc #biodiversity #cropdiversity #agrobiodiversity #foodsystemtransformation #sustainableagriculture

We are happy to share this call for papers by our implementation partner, the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), in collaboration with Chinese research partners. Understanding how digitalization affects smallholder systems and family farms will be crucial for ensuring that the benefits of smart technologies are shared fairly and contribute to equitable development of rural communities—in both China and Germany. #digitalagriculture #digitalization #smallholder #familyfarm #smartagriculture

The Institute for Urban Agriculture (IUA) in Chengdu is one of the most modern institutes at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS). Amongst its facilities is a newly built 7-floor vertical farming building, where IUA scientists are experimenting with LED lighting techniques to speed up crop cycles and improve yields. Today, DCZ expert Eva Sternfeld is visiting the institute to discuss an upcoming DCZ study tour for German federal research institutions and a science conference with German and CAAS researchers to be held at IUA in September this year. Contact us to get involved: https://lnkd.in/dr6x8kM3 #urbanagriculture #plantfactory #china

While 55% of the global population live in cities, urban spaces produce only about 15-20% of the world's food supplies. Integrating agriculture into city landscapes could leverage transformative change to build resilient and sustainable urban food systems. The 2024 Youth Hackathon organized by FAO China and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) invites young minds to brainstorm, collaborate, and develop sustainable solutions to urban agriculture challenges. Check out the details and apply now: https://lnkd.in/dJzWQdwD #urbanagriculture #foodsystems #hackathon #resilience #sustainablecities

In June, we took a group of experts from China and Germany on a study tour around Berlin and Brandenburg to learn more about community-led efforts at preserving and sustainably using crop genetic diversity. Our take-away: Bringing crop diversity back to the fields is an important lever in creating climate-resilient food systems and stronger rural communities. You can find more information on the inspiring projects we visited on our website: https://lnkd.in/dcUnqknn #agrobiodiversity #cropdiversity #geneticdiversity #climateresilient #foodsystems #berlin #brandenburg #ruralcommunities

We are happy to share the announcement of the 3rd International Agrobiodiversity Congress (IAC), taking place in Kunming, China from 22 to 25 April 2025: https://lnkd.in/e68vSYRG The congress is organized by the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT as well as the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)—two important members of the Sino-German AgroBiodiversity Network the DCZ has been building with funding from the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL): https://lnkd.in/ekvrkN3r We are thrilled to be part of such a vibrant community of experts and activists, driving actions to conserve and sustainably use agrobiodiversity. #agrobiodiversity #conservation #sustainability

What international mechanisms and instruments are available for Germany and China to cooperate more closely on global food security? This was the question addressed by the 6th webinar of our DCZ TALKS series on 26 June. Three speakers – Carolin Mai Weber from the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), M. Allegra Bruni from the World Food Programme (WFP), and SONG Yuhe from the Foreign Economic Cooperation Center (FECC) of the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) – discussed different instruments of cooperation, including the human rights-based approach to food security laid out in the Voluntary Guidelines of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as well as South-South and triangular cooperation approaches. You missed the event and want to know more? Watch the recording on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/dKwPQZV9 You can find a summary of the key take-aways from the webinar on our website: https://lnkd.in/dKk7Ry5D #southsouth #triangularcooperation #sstc #foodsecurity #righttofood