UNEP-International Ecosystem Management Partnership

Agricultural Socialized Services and Circular Agriculture Seminar, and Inception Meeting of the Green Circular Agricultural Development Model and Effect Evaluation Project

09 October 2025

On September 29, 2025, UNEP-IEMP organized a seminar on agricultural socialized services and circular agriculture, as well as a kickoff meeting for the development model and effectiveness evaluation project of circular agriculture. The kick-off meeting invited more than 20 institutions from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing University, Renmin University of China, Rural Energy and Environment Agency, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Research Center for Rural Economy RCRE, Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and other institutions to participate in the meeting. The meeting began with Ms. Zhang Yanping from the World Resources Institute introducing the project background, and Director Zhang Linxiu from UNEP-IEMP delivering a welcome speech. Next, Associate Researcher Xu Xiangbo introduced the "Green Circular Agriculture Development Model and Efficiency Evaluation" project from the aspects of project background, objectives, methods, and progress. This project takes agricultural socialized service organizations as the starting point, and through pilot research in Jilin, Henan, Sichuan, and Fujian provinces, combined with life cycle assessment methods, aims to synthesize typical circular agriculture models, evaluate their ecological and economic efficiency, and ultimately provide suggestions for policy formulation. In the subsequent discussion session, the attendees had in-depth discussions and exchanges on project activities and case study selection, technical models and implementation mechanisms, precise evaluation of benefits, and promoting sustainable development of circular agriculture in planting and breeding. Venue of the seminar and kick-off meeting This kick-off meeting promoted in-depth communication between the research team and multiple experts, clarified the focus direction and key issues of the project, and laid a solid foundation for the effective promotion and communication cooperation of subsequent research.

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UNEP-IEMP 10-Year Progress Video

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UN Environment Programme-International Ecosystem Management Partnership

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UNEP-IEMP 10-Year Progress Review (2012-2022)

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Jun

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03

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May

10

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Case Study Reports and Toolkit on the Social Impact of Chinese Overseas Investment

Global Bioeconomy Assessment: Coordinated Efforts of Policy, Innovation, and Sustainability for a Greener Future

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Unforeseen high continental-scale soil microbiome homogenization in urban greenspaces

Inequality in agricultural greenhouse gas emissions intensity has risen in rural China from 1993 to 2020

Assessing and Comparing Smallholders’ Vulnerability to Climate Change among Countries in the Pan-Third Pole Region

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