Sino-German Environmental Partnership Phase III

OBJECTIVES Environmental protection and nature conservation measures in China are planned and implemented more effectively. DESCRIPTION Economic growth in China has slowed and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing. In this context, China’s 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) aims to achieve qualitative economic growth and balance this with environment protection. The...

Enhancement of Smallholder Spice Farmer’s Capacities in Sustainable Farming

OBJECTIVES ‘Enhancement of Smallholder Spice Farmer’s Capacities in Sustainable Farming’ aims to strengthen the production of cardamom, cumin, and turmeric in four states of India - Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Rajasthan - to increase the capacities of spice farmers to make production practices more economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable. The project...

International Agricultural Research

Indian farmer standing in his wheat field Copyright: Wasim Iftikar, CIMMYT Researchers in the International Rice Research Institute Copyright: IRRI OBJECTIVES Innovations of agricultural research provide smallholder farmers with...

Support to sustainable Agri Value Chains in ASEAN

AgriTrade Project Steering Committee Meeting in Jakarta, February 2020. Photo credit : GIZ/Diella Dachlan OBJECTIVES The overall objective is that the framework conditions for the implementation of sustainability standards in agricultural value chains within the ASEAN region are improved. DESCRIPTION The free movement of goods and services is a key aspiration of the...