Low-Carbon Agriculture and Soil Health Improvement Program

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The development objective of Low-Carbon Agriculture and Soil Health Improvement Program Project for China is to reduce agriculture greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and enhance the productive capacity of degraded farmland in selected Counties in Hubei province. The PforR Program aims to enhance the effectiveness and impact of government budget resources that support the implementation of the Hubei ASDP (2016–2030). The PforR Program supports a subset of activities from the four Strategic Areas (Sas) of the Hubei Province ASDP. The activities from the four SAs of the Hubei ASDP are repackaged into three interlinked RAs of the PforR Program. RA1: Enhancing institutional capacity for sustainable management of farmland ecosystem. RA1 supports closing the existing institutional capacity gaps in SSM and creating an enabling environment for family farms, farmer cooperatives, and private enterprises to participate in the PforR Program. RA2: Improving productive capacity of degraded farmland. RA2 supports family farms, farmer cooperatives, and eco-farms to enhance the adoption of technologies and practices that improve soil health. RA3: Recycling biomass to reduce GHG emissions from agricultural waste. RA3 will support enterprises piloting innovative and scalable circular bioeconomy technologies and practices to reduce GHG emissions from agricultural waste.