Objectif The proposed research is an interdisciplinary study for exploration and improvement of the agricultural environmental condition, resource use sustainability and food safety in highly-populated subtropical rural areas in China, with the ultimate goal of ensuring a progressive growth of agricultural productivity, improving living conditions and health of rural population, and meeting the ever-growing needs to food suplies. The agricultural growth and foodgrain self-sufficiency in recent years in China have been to a great extent dependent upon the readjustment of agricultural structure and significant increase of external industrial input. At the same time the environmental degradation, ecological damage, water and food pollution, etc. in rural areas with increasing population are becoming major concerns. Solution of these problems is of great improtance in encouraging the continuing growth and sustainable development of agriculture. The highly-populated Jianghan Plain, located in the middle basin of Yangtze River, is taken as a typical subtropical agricultural area for sampling, testing and demonstration from selected research sites, representing different levels of agricultural hierarchy. Research will be carried out to : (1) investigate the impact of agricultural intensification on sustained productivity, agricultural resource base, biodiversity, rural environmental quality and food safety, described both in present state quantification, and in their temporal and spatial variations; (2) examine the effect of different alternative agrotechniques and production/management systems on controlling ecological and environmental changes and on enhancing the agricultural sustainability; (3) develop and apply information management system based on relevant ecological indicators for monitoring ecological changes and managing agricultural input in a rationalized way. By completion of this research comprehensive scientific information will be obtained and technical strategy developed for better understanding and resolving the eco-environment problems, determining the agricultural sustainability in subtropical highly-populated rural areas. Experimental and demonstrative project areas will be built up as examples showing the way to sustainable rural development. Champ scientifique social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivityengineering and technologyother engineering and technologiesfood technologyfood safetynatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollutionnatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystemsagricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculture Programme(s) FP3-STD 3 - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of the life sciences and technologies for developing countries, 1990-1994 Thème(s) Data not available Appel à propositions Data not available Régime de financement CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinateur UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse VIA U.BASSI 58/B 35131 PADOVA Italie Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée Participants (4) Trier par ordre alphabétique Trier par contribution de l’UE Tout développer Tout réduire Beijing Agricultural University Chine Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse 2,Yuan Ming Yuan Xilu 100012 Bei-Jing Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée Hubei Provincial Station of Agricultural Eco-environmental Protection Chine Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse 281,Wuluo Road 430070 Wuhan Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE France Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse Rue de Saint-Brieuc 65 35042 Rennes Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée People's Government of Qianjiang City Chine Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse 13,Jiefang Road 13 433100 Qianjiang Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée
