ag commodities
Fact sheet: Agriculture and food in China
Increasing agricultural output to reduce import dependency is a top priority for China, but environmental and structural challenges stand in…
DCZ
May 29, 2024
rural development
Harvest · 丰收 | Issue 4 | May 2024
This issue of Harvest ∙ 丰收 provides insights into the structural transformations that are reshaping farming landscapes in both Germany and China…
DCZ
May 11, 2024
sustainable agriculture
Terminology paper: agroecology
Agroecology has gained increasing recognition in China’s agricultural development as a practice that can help address pressing environmental challenges…
DCZ
April 8, 2024
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BMEL organic strategy
The Federal Government of Germany has set itself the goal of having 30 per cent of agricultural land farmed organically by 2030…
DCZ
January 15, 2024
ag trade & markets
In the press: German pork exports to China
China used to be Germany’s biggest export market for pork meat, but an outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) in September 2020 prompted the Chinese…
DCZ
December 1, 2023
agriculture & climate change
Policy brief: German ag policy within the EU context
With the Green Party in charge of the ministry of agriculture and the EU’s “Green Deal” in place, German agricultural policy is expected to become more sustainable and climate…
DCZ
November 3, 2022
food security
Study: grain security in China
This study analyzes the current challenges facing China’s grain security, the measures taken to address them, and the impacts on global food security…
DCZ
October 25, 2022
rural development
Terminology paper: 共同富裕 common prosperity
In this new contribution to our “Making sense of …” series, Yuelai LU unpacks the term “common prosperity” and its implications for agriculture and rural areas…
DCZ
October 8, 2022
food & nutrition
2022 FAO report on food security and nutrition in the world
The challenges to ending hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition keep growing. The 2022 FAO report suggests that the number of people…
DCZ
September 22, 2022
ag commodities
BMEL harvest report 2022
Germany’s official harvest report was released on 26 August 2022 by the Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (BMEL)…
DCZ
September 5, 2022
ag tech & digitalization
BMEL digitalization strategy
Digital technologies in farming are becoming ever more important. The agricultural digitalization strategy of the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) gives an overview of the current opportunities…
DCZ
June 6, 2022
rural development
BMEL brochure on rural regions
The importance of rural regions for life and work, economy and culture in Germany cannot be overestimated. They are the basis for the food and energy supply and…
DCZ
June 2, 2022
food security
In the press: limits of self-sufficiency
DCZ experts Juergen Ritter and Eva Sternfeld spoke with German agri-news journal agrarheute about China’s food security strategy as the country intensifies its push for self-reliance and agricultural modernization…
DCZ
May 25, 2022
ag support
DCZ
March 31, 2022
sustainable agriculture
Study: soil contamination in China
Healthy soils are the prerequisite for agricultural production and, hence, the basis for food security. For China, the efficient use of its farmland resources is an urgent matter…
DCZ
March 15, 2022