Trans4num: Project meeting in China 

10.11.2023

Last week, as a follow-up for the trans4num kickoff meeting, our UHOH project research team set-off to China to learn about the Chinese consortium project and gather first hand insight on nature based solutions (NBS) practices for sustainable agriculture in Europe and China.  

The Trans4num consortium will study 20 NBS farm-level innovations in 7 regions with intensive farming systems: 4 in Europe (Denmark, Hungary, Netherlands, and the United Kingdom) and 3 in China. 

Earlier this month, the project coordination team from the University of Hohenheim comprising Prof. Dr. Andrea Knierim, Dr. Qirui Li and Dr. Sara Yasaminshirazi, set-out to explore and learn more about the Chinese consortium project, directly at grass-roots level. 

During the trip, the team was hosted by the Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Zhengzhou, where after a keynote introduction by the dean of the Foreign Affairs Office and the director of the Institute of Plant Nutrition and Resource Environment, prof. dr. Andrea Knierim gave a lecture for 50 attendees about the ‘Advisory services’ and trans4num Europe project. As well as furthermore giving a lecture titled ‘Changes and Continuities in Agricultural Advisory Work. A European Perspective’ for the professors and junior researchers at the Agricultural Information Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.