seeds & breeding
Harvest · 丰收 | Issue 5 | OCT 2024
In both China and Germany, the conservation and the re-cultivation of endangered old varieties and landraces…
DCZ
October 18, 2024
seeds & breeding
Policy brief: Conservation and sustainable use of agrobiodiversity
This brief explores how China and Germany can learn from each other to advance the policy agenda for agrobiodiversity…
DCZ
September 24, 2024
seeds & breeding
Harvest · 丰收 | Issue 1 | Nov 2022
The first issue of Harvest · 丰收, our bi-annual magazine on agricultural cooperation, examines the latest trends in China’s seed sector and…
DCZ
December 6, 2022
seeds & breeding
Policy brief: GMO regulations in China
GMOs (genetically-modified organisms) are seen as crucial building blocs in enhancing agricultural productivity and efficiency…
DCZ
March 7, 2022
seeds & breeding
Policy brief: China’s new seed law
While China approves hundreds of seed varieties every year, many of them are critized as having little commercial value. A major overhaul of China’s Seed Law…
DCZ
February 24, 2022
seeds & breeding
Policy brief: seed industry strategy in China
In recent years, seeds and the development of the Chinese seed sector have gained importance. As the “foundation of agricultural modernization”, seeds and germplasm resources are seen as a crucial…
DCZ
September 9, 2021
seeds & breeding
Policy brief: the German seed sector and seed policy
While there is no single seed policy, plant breeding is one field of activity within the recently adopted overall crop cultivation strategy of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture…
DCZ
July 18, 2021
seeds & breeding
In the press: the microchips of agriculture
Seeds have been termed the “microchips of agriculture”, highlighting the significance Chinese policymakers attach to the sector. In her contribution for German for agricultural journal DFG Mitteilungen, DCZ expert…
DCZ
May 8, 2021
seeds & breeding
Study: the seed market in China
China’s seed sector has seen rapid development in the past decades, turning the country into the world’s second largest seed market. Yet, industry fragmentation and limited innovation capacity…
DCZ
September 12, 2020
seeds & breeding
Policy brief: seed cooperation
As China seeks to boost the innovation capacity of its domestic seed sector, better protecting plant variety rights will play an important role…
DCZ
June 19, 2019