Back now from Kunming and Beijing, I discover that there is a rather massive Sino-German collaboration on Sustainable Management of Agrobiodiversity. It apparently runs from June 2005 to May 2009, and is certainly casting its net wide in both Hunan and the island province of Hainan. The project web site is rather neat, although I personally found the content just a little confusing. It is hard to get a sense of timing, and the use of acronyms is downright confusing. I clicked on PVP Training in Hunan Province Successfully Held fully expecting it to be about plant variety protection, only to discover it was about participatory village planning. Still, that’s minor. There’s plenty to explore and I’m sure the project will have an impact. Now, if only I can persuade the project to establish an RSS feed and to change the name of one of the organisations the web site links to, I’ll be even happier.
p.s. Just to pull all my recent posts from China together (just in case someone somewhere is Googling “china agrobiodiversity”) here they are: