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GRK 1070:  Modelling Material Flows and Production Systems for Sustainable Resource Use in Intensified Crop Production in the North China Plain

Subject Area Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine
Term from 2004 to 2013
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 425187
 
Agricultural food production in the North China Plain is characterised by high level production intensities, crop rotations and yields. Sustainability has not been taken into account in the development of China’s agriculture that has been mainly focused on raising productivity in order to meet the needs of a growing population with rising living standards. As a consequence, agricultural production in China entails serious environmental problems like reduced water availability, air and water pollution, and soil degradation.
The project is a collaboration of University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, and China Agricultural University, Beijing. It aims at developing cropping systems and management practices for the North China Plain that guaranty high intensities and are, at the same time, environmentally, economically and socially sound. This requires clearly identifying, measuring and modelling the related material flow effects in cropping systems. Strategies to reduce or avoid negative effects have to be developed, analysed and assessed on field, farm and regional levels in order to derive suitable agro-environmental policy measures.
The International Research Training Group consists of eleven subprojects of various disciplines (physics, soil sciences, plant breeding, plant ecology, plant nutrition, plant production, agricultural informatics, farm management, rural development policy). Research is jointly conducted by German and Chinese project leaders, PhD Students and Postdocs. All subprocjects use modelling approaches on different levels and scales in order to establish linkages between levels and projects. Modelling approaches of agricultural systems are therefore the major topic in the accompanying study programme.
DFG Programme International Research Training Groups
International Connection China
Applicant Institution Universität Hohenheim
IRTG-Partner Institution China Agricultural University
 
 

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