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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetEvaluation reportBiodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Land Management in the Soda Saline-alkaline Wetlands Agropastoral Landscapes in the Western Area of the Jilin Province
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2025Also available in:
No results found.The five-year project is funded by GEF and implemented by FAO. The executing partner is the Department of Water Resources, Jilin Province. The project uses the western Jilin wetlands to address one of the most disruptive environmental challenges in China: large-scale land degradation and biodiversity damages caused by decreasing water resources. Its global environmental objective is to demonstrate and replicate an integrated model for Sustainable Land and Water Management (SLWM) in saline-alkaline productive landscapes, including rehabilitation and biodiversity conservation in wetlands. The development objective is to provide the long-term sustainable flow of income to farmers’ communities from farming systems (crop, livestock and fish) in the western area of Jilin Province by building an ecologically resilient productive landscape. -
BookletEvaluation reportTerminal evaluation of the project "Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Land Management in the Soda Saline-alkaline Wetlands Agropastoral Landscapes in the Western Area of the Jilin Province"
Project code: GCP/CPR/048/GFF - GEF ID 4632
2024Also available in:
No results found.The project proved to be highly consistent with the priorities of FAO and the government, and designed to meet the needs of the beneficiaries. The project effectively adopted an inclusive co-creation approach to foster adoption of sustainable land and water management and development of innovative agrobiodiversity conservation practices. The design was ambitious but interventions were well targeted. There has been substantial progress towards long-term impact, viewed by stakeholders as largely attributable to the project. Changes made by the project to policies, plans, legal provisions and regulations increase the likelihood of long-term, sustainable impacts, and there was extensive evidence found in positive changes in field-level practices by farmers and wetland managers. The project had high additionality, facilitating a unified cross-sectoral approach to deliver a suite of soil, water, environmental and socioeconomic benefits that are unlikely to have occurred without the support of the Global Environment Facility. -
ProjectFactsheetIntegrated Detection and Management of the Southern Rice Black-Streaked Dwarf Virus (Srbsdv) in Guizhou Province - TCP/CPR/3603 2020
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No results found.In recent years, a new disease has been observed on ricein regions of Guangdong Province and Hainan Province,in southern China. The virus, known as the southern riceblack-streaked dwarf virus (SRBSDV), is transmitted to riceseedlings mainly by the white-backed planthopper,Sogatella furcifera (Hemiptera: Delphacidae), although itcan also be transmitted by the small brown planthopper(Laodelphax striatellus Fallen). Since 2010, severerepeated outbreaks of SRBSDV have been reported in Liboand Tianzhu County of Guizhou Province. The disease hascaused severe crop damage in around 5 000 ha annually,leading to unprecedented income loss for farmers. If thevirus is not managed, it is likely to spread to otherrice-growing areas in the southern, south-eastern andsouth-west mountainous areas of Guizhou. Local farmers’use of non-target chemical pesticides to manageoutbreaks increases the resistance of rice planthoppersto the pesticides, leading to frequent outbreaks of thedisease and forcing many farmers to abandon ricecultivation. The long-term effective management ofSRBSDV disease and its vector, the rice planthopper, inLibo and Tianzhu is thus a top priority, not only to protectthe livelihoods of poor ethnic minority farmers but alsoto safeguard ecology and biodiversity in the area.
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MeetingMeeting documentSustainable black soil management: A case study from China 2024
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Book (series)FlagshipThe State of Food and Agriculture 2019
Moving forward on food loss and waste reduction
2019The need to reduce food loss and waste is firmly embedded in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Food loss and waste reduction is considered important for improving food security and nutrition, promoting environmental sustainability and lowering production costs. However, efforts to reduce food loss and waste will only be effective if informed by a solid understanding of the problem. This report provides new estimates of the percentage of the world’s food lost from production up to the retail level. The report also finds a vast diversity in existing estimates of losses, even for the same commodities and for the same stages in the supply chain. Clearly identifying and understanding critical loss points in specific supply chains – where considerable potential exists for reducing food losses – is crucial to deciding on appropriate measures. The report provides some guiding principles for interventions based on the objectives being pursued through food loss and waste reductions, be they in improved economic efficiency, food security and nutrition, or environmental sustainability. -
Book (series)Technical reportConservation agriculture in China
Innovations, investment opportunities and challenges
2023Also available in:
While the agricultural production in China has made great achievements, it is also facing challenges affecting the sustainable development of agriculture. Conservation agriculture (CA) is a farming system that promotes minimum soil disturbance (i.e., no-tillage and direct seeding), maintenance of a permanent soil cover (mulch or cover crops), and diversification of plant species (crop rotations that include leguminous species). CA has been adopted in more than 100 countries worldwide and has become one of the most effective and widely used farming systems and technology for dryland agriculture. The adoption of CA can bring agronomic, environmental and economic benefits, and is of great significance to the development of green agriculture in China. This publication focuses on the development path, opportunities and challenges, development suggestions, technology and equipment, experiences, case studies and future scenarios for CA in China aiming to support the extension and adoption of CA in China and globally. This publication is part of the Country Investment Highlights series under the FAO Investment Centre's Knowledge for Investment (K4I) programme.