In July 2000, four institutes merged to form the College of Natural Resources and Environment at Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University (NWAFU). These included the former Department of Resources and Environmental Science of Northwest Agricultural University, the Department of Soil and Water Conservation and Desertification Control of Northwest Forestry College, the Institute of Soil and Fertilizer of Shaanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and the Institute of Loess Plateau Governance. The college’s history dates back to the 1930s.
The college offers a comprehensive academic system, covering undergraduate, master’s, doctoral, and postdoctoral education. It has five undergraduate majors: Resources and Environmental Science, Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Geographic Information Science, and Soil and Water Conservation and Desertification Control, along with one Sino-foreign cooperative undergraduate major in Environmental Science.
The college hosts several key research platforms, including the Northwest Key Laboratory of Plant Nutrition and Agricultural Environment of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA), the Heyang Agricultural Environment and Cultivated Land Conservation Scientific Observation Experimental Station of MARA, and the Yangling Observation Experimental Station of National Agricultural Science Soil Quality (National Loess Fertility and Fertilizer Benefit Positioning Monitoring Base).
With 171 faculty members, the college is distinguished for its research in soil moisture processes and global change, soil carbon and nitrogen processes and nutrient management, plant nutrition regulation and dryland water and fertilizer management, soil processes and degradation control, land resource evaluation and information technology, geosphere environmental processes and organic pollution control, and waste recycling and soil remediation.
More information: https://zhxy.nwafu.edu.cn/english/index.htm.
