HUBEI SMART AND SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT

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The objective of the Hubei Smart and Sustainable Agriculture Project for China is to promote integrated environmentally sustainable and climate-smart agriculture, and agri-food quality and safety, in targeted value chains and landscapes in Hubei Province. The Project has three components. 1. Agricultural Risk Assessment, Management, and Communications component will focus on the development of environmentally sustainable, climate-smart, and safe production and processing standards. Sub-component 1.1: Risk Assessment will finance: (i) agro-environmental risk assessments; (ii) climate risk assessments; (iii) food quality and safety risk assessments. Sub-component 1.2: Risk Management will support (i) standards development; (ii) big-data analytics and provincial traceability platform; (iii) institutional systems and (iv) incentives. Sub-component 1.3: Risk Communications will increase public confidence in the quality and safety of agri-food products through establishment of a Public Participation in Risk Communications and Science Popularization program. 2. Demonstration and Replication of Smart and Sustainable Agricultural Practices component will leverage private sector involvement to support the demonstration of smart and sustainable practices in the agri-food system using innovative solutions. Sub-component 2.1: Demonstrations of Innovative Sustainable Production Practices will finance the implementation on the ground of Hubei 3S (Smart, Sustainable, Safe) GAP (Good Agricultural Practices) and integrated landscape management plans with the potential to make positive contributions to all the 3Ss, and at a scale sufficient to provide proof of concept. Sub-component 2.2: Scaling-up Sustainable Production Practices will strengthen service delivery systems for the supply of green agriculture inputs to farmers, provide additional support services, farmer training, innovation and extension systems and infrastructure to enable scaling-up of GAP and climate smart applications by farmers and cooperative members beyond demonstration areas. Sub-component 2.3: Strengthening Farmer Cooperatives will support training and technical assistance carried out by farmer cooperatives/enterprises and select public agencies to strengthen cooperatives in their technical, financial and commercial management. 3. Project and Knowledge Management component will include activities in knowledge management, to gather and share the experiences and lessons learned from the project, both in relation to risk assessment and monitoring and to the demonstration and scaling-up of successful Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) and GAP practices.