加強疫情背景下的中非農業合作:機遇與挑戰

Nanjing Agricultural University Webinar onStrengthening China-Africa Agricultural Cooperation against COVID-19: Opportunities and Challenges

Time: 19:00-21:00（Beijing Time）, June 23, 2020

Venue:  Nanjing, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Mozambique

Platform: Tencent Meeting

ID: 876 998 489

Organizer: Nanjing Agricultural University

Nanjing Agricultural UniversityProfessor of Agribusiness，Dean of College of International Education，Nanjing Agricultural University

Institute of African Studies,Zhejiang Normal UniversityChang Jiang Scholar of Ministry of Education, ChinaProfessor of Genetics and Breeding,Vice-Dean of College of Agriculture,Nanjing Agricultural UniversityProfessor of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science,College of Animal Science and Technology,Nanjing Agricultural UniversityHead, National Centre for International Research on Animal Gut NutritionDirector of Confucius Institute,Associate Professor of Horticulture,Egerton University, Kenya

Deputy General Manager of CR20G Mozambique BranchExecutive Manager of Wanbao China-Africa Agricultural Cooperation Project

新冠疫情不僅給全人類的健康帶來威脅，也嚴重影響了社會、經濟、政治及文化交流等各個方面。今年二月以來，中國人民發起了抗擊新冠肺炎的戰疫，付出了巨大代價，並控制住了疫情。但是，目前還面臨著疫情反彈的壓力。

新冠疫情還在影響著全球大部分地區。中國和非洲都面臨著抗擊疫情、恢復和穩定經濟、保障民生的艱巨任務。

新冠疫情對中非農業合作帶來影響，一些農業合作項目不得不暫緩執行。在此背景下，南京農業大學舉辦「加強新冠疫情下的中非農業合作：機遇與挑戰」雲端論壇，旨在進一步推動我校與非洲夥伴的交流與合作。著名學者及中鐵二十局莫三比克公司代表將出席論壇，與非洲留學生就以下主題展開在線深度交流：

（1）中非農業合作的潛力與前景；

（2）一帶一路聯合實驗室，共建與共享；

（3）中非畜牧業合作：以南農為例；

（4）加強疫情背景下的中非農業合作：機遇與挑戰；

（5）中非農業合作的範例：莫三比克萬寶農業園。

Strengthening China-Africa Agricultural Cooperation against COVID-19: Opportunities and Challenges 

  The COVID-19 pandemic is a serious global health threat with severe impacts on social, economic, and political aspects. Since February this year, the Chinese people have launched a fierce fight and made enormous sacrifice to bring the situation in China under control. At the moment, we still have to remain mindful of the resurgence risk.  

COVID-19 is still affecting most parts of the world. Both China and Africa face the arduous task of controlling the virus while recovering and stabilizing the economy and protecting people's livelihoods. 

The pandemic has also impaired the China-Africa agricultural cooperation, with the postponement of some joint agricultural projects. Under this background, Nanjing Agricultural University holds this Webinar on China-Africa Agricultural Cooperation against the COVID-19 with the objective of strengthening exchanges and cooperation with African partners. Well-known professors and the representative from CR20G Mozambique Branch will share their deep insights and new ideas with African students on the following topics: 

(1) China-Africa Agriculture Cooperation: Potential and Prospects 

(2) Belt and Road Joint Lab, Co-construction and Sharing

(3) China-Africa Cooperation on Animal Husbandry Production: NAU practice  

(4) Strengthening China-Africa Agricultural Cooperation against COVID-19: Opportunities and Challenges

(5) An Example of China-Africa Agricultural Cooperation: Wanbao Agricultural Park in Mozambique 

Prof. LIU Hongwu, founder and director of the Institute of African Studies at Zhejiang Normal University (IASZNU), is a Distinguished Professor of "Chang Jiang Scholar Program」(appointed by the Ministry of Education of the P.R.C), and a Special Expert of Zhejiang Province (appointed by Zhejiang Provincial Government), who enjoys special allowances of the State Council of the P.R.C.In his early years, Prof. LIU studied in Nigeria, Tanzania and other countries in Africa, and has conducted field investigation in dozens of African countries during the past three decades. He has been dedicated to promoting African Studies from Chinese Perspective and has been an influential scholar in the related fields.In 2007, he established IASZNU, working as the director and the academic leader. Since then, he has not only focused on academic researches, disciplinary construction and talent cultivating of the related fields, but contributed to building bridges for people-to-people exchanges and cooperation between universities, think tanks, media in China and Africa. He is the initiator of China-Africa Think Tanks Forum.Prof. LIU has published more than 20 works and over 100 academic papers, and is the founding editor-in-chief of a series of publications, including African Studies, Report on African Development, and ZNU African Studies Collection. He has been in charge of more than 10 major research projects sponsored by the National Social Science Fund, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Commerce of P.R.C. 

Dr. Wang Xiu'e, Professor and Vice-dean of the College of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, China. Her main research interests are wheat genetics and breeding, plant genomics and molecular cytogenetics of Triticeae species. Leading her research group, she established a high-efficient platform for introducing alien useful genes into cultivated wheat by wide hybridization and molecular cytogenetics techniques. The materials they developed have improved resistances to wheat fungal diseases and are widely used in wheat breeding. She has established close relationship with wheat scientists in USA, UK, Australia, CIMMYT and KALRO in Kenya. She has chaired more than 30 national and international research projects. More than 140 papers have been published in peer reviewed national and international journals,  including PNAS, Genome Res., TAG etc. As the Director of the Sino-Kenya Belt and Road Joint Laboratory on Crop Molecular Biology, one area of her research is on the mining of new resources for stem rust resistance, especially  resistance to Ug99 and its variants. She is also responsible for coordinating the collaboration between China and belt and road African countries for scientific research, student training, technique transfer and training, and other forms related to academic exchanges. 

Dr. Zhu Weiyun, Professor, College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University. Head, National Centre for International Research on Animal Gut Nutrition, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Gastrointestinal Nutrition and Animal Health; Deputy Director, National Animal Nutrition Society, Chinese Association of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine.Her research interests are gut microbial ecology and animal nutrition and health, gut microbial bioconversion of plant derived bioactive compounds and their health promoting impacts among others. She has been the Principal Investigator of a rich number of important domestic and international research projects, such as those funded by the National Science Foundation of China, and the EU, in interplay of intestinal microbiota and nutrient metabolism in pig. She has been supervising PhD students in collaboration with Wageningen University, Aberystwyth University, University of Aberdeen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Ghent, Texas A& M University. She has been invited to present papers by international symposium and overseas institutions. She is an editorial board member for several international journals, e.g. Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology, and Asia-Australian Journal of Animal Sciences. 

Dr. Joshua Ogweno, Associate professor of Horticulture in the Department of Crops Horticulture and Soil Science and Director of Confucius institute at Egerton University, Kenya.  Prof Ogweno has a wealth of experience in participatory adaptive research and consultancy services focusing on: Vegetable production systems, quality of Vegetables, vegetable seed production and other areas in horticulture including vegetable production in greenhouse and also use of botanicals in pest management. As a director of Confucius Institute, Prof Ogweno has been involved in Appropriate Technology transfer from China to Kenya and has presided over 20 international short courses conducted jointly with Nanjing Agricultural University and other collaborators.  In the recent years (2016-2020), he has widened his research and consultancy domain to span neglected crop (African indigenous vegetables), climate change and agro-biodiversity. Over the past decade, he has served as a consultant in Rwanda as horticulturist in assisting the country to enhance both the quality and quantity of their horticultural exports to Europe and other African countries. He has been involved in a number of projects as a collaborator or Principal investigator in the recent past and has published widely. 

Bio of  Hu Jigao

Hu Jigao, Deputy General Manager of CR20G Mozambique Branch, and Executive Manager of Wanbao China-Africa Agricultural Cooperation Project. Since September 2017, with him at the helm, the rice planting area has increased from 800 ha to 2,500 ha. Meanwhile, the total yield per hectare and sales volume also reached unprecedented heights for two consecutive years.

 

During the past years, Wanbao has conducted several rice and cash crop cultivating trials with positive results. Achievements have also been made in winemaking, animal husbandry and sericulture.

 

In November 2018, an agricultural technology training course was held in Mozambique in cooperation with Nanjing Agricultural University, which trained a group of agricultural technicians for the local areas. More than 1,500 local farmers have joined a cooperative for rice growing and now they are technically literate in rice cultivation.

 

The agricultural technology transfer of the Wanbao Agricultural Project and its contribution to local food security have attracted great attention from both governments of Mozambique and China. High-level leaders of the two countries have visited the project site for many times. Mainstream media both domestic and abroad have reported on the project favorably.