Projects Directory
UK China Sustainable Agriculture Innovation Network (SAIN)
- Improved Nutrient Management in Agriculture – a Key to the Low Carbon Economy
- A review of Manure Use in China (MUC)
- ADMIT: Harmonising Adaptation and MITigation for agriculture and water in China
- Estimates of future agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation in China
- Conservation for enhanced utilization of crop wild relative diversity for sustainable development and climate change mitigation
- Addressing vulnerabilities and building capacity for adaptation of agriculture to climate change in China
- Developing a catchment management template to mitigate non-point source pollution in China
- The future of food and farming – Foresight Report’s implications for China
- Suitability of bio-char in China and sub-Saharan Africa: biophysical and socio-economic “fit”
- Knowledge, policy and practice for sustainable nutrient management and water resources protection in UK and Chinese agro-ecosystems
- Development of UK China Knowledge Sharing and Mutual Learning Platform
Joint Centres
- Sino-UK Strawberry Innovation R&D Centre
- UK-China Joint Centre for Sustainable Intensification in Agriculture (CSIA)
- The CAS-JIC Centre of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Science (CEPAMS)
- UK-China Joint Centre for Probiotics Research
- UK-China Centre of Excellence for Research on Avian Diseases (CERAD)
- China-CABI Joint Laboratory for Bio-safety
Virtual Joint Centres in Agricultural Nitrogen
- N-CIRCLE: Virtual Joint Centre for Closed-Loop Cycling of Nitrogen in Chinese Agriculture
- The UK-China Virtual Joint Centre for Improved Nitrogen Agronomy (CINAg)
AgriTech in China Programm
- Agri-Tech in China Newton Network+ (ATCNN)
- Integrating advanced earth observation and environmental information for sustainable management of crop pests and diseases
- Regional crop monitoring and assessment with quantitative remote sensing and data assimilation
- Enabling wide area persistent remote sensing for agriculture applications by developing and coordinating multiple heterogeneous platforms
- PAFiC: Precision Agriculture for Family-farms in China
- Synthesis of remote sensing and novel ground truth sensors to develop high resolution soil moisture forecasts in China and the UK
The Sustainable Rice Programme
- Super-Rice: a UK-China Collaboration to Improve Rice Nitrogen Use Efficiency (NUE)
- Climate ready rice: Optimising transpiration to protect rice yields under abiotic stresses
- Rice Research Newton Fund: Exploiting a Cyanobacterial CO2 Concentrating Mechanism to Increase Photosynthesis and Yield in Rice
- Maintaining rice reproduction under high temperature stress: identifying mechanisms and germplasm to increase crop resilience
- A 3D Model of Photosynthesis to Inform Breeding for Improved Rice Performance in a Changing Climate
- Large scale dynamic integration of proteomics and genomics to support next-generation rice research
Using Critical Zone Science to Understand Sustaining the Ecosystem Service of Soil & Water (CZO)
The UK – China Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) Programme is a joint programme between the UK National Environment Research Council (NERC) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) which seeks to understand ways to address the challenges for the delivery of China’s ecosystems services in association with their agricultural production and urbanisation.
- SPECTRA: Soil Processes and Ecological Services in the Karst Critical Zone of Southwest China
- Red Soil CZ: From natural to anthropogenic evolution of Red Soil and its impact on ecosystem function in the Critical Zone
- Modelling and Managing Critical Zone Relationships between Soil, Water and Ecosystem Processes across the Loess Plateau
- Using Critical Zone Science to Enhance Soil Fertility and Improve Ecosystem Services for Peri-Urban Agriculture in China
- The transmissive critical zone: understanding the karst hydrology-biogeochemical interface for sustainable management
International Agricultural Development