On 10 November 2008, the UK and Chinese governments signed a three year commitment to strengthen their growing partnership on agriculture. Hilary Benn, UK Environment Secretary, met Chinese Agriculture Minister Sun Zhengcai and signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Cooperation on Sustainable Agriculture. The Ministers also launched the Sustainable Agriculture Innovation Network (SAIN) which will help address the link between agriculture and climate change.
On 10 November 2008, the UK and Chinese governments signed a three year commitment to strengthen their growing partnership on agriculture. Hilary Benn, UK Environment Secretary, met Chinese Agriculture Minister Sun Zhengcai and signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Cooperation on Sustainable Agriculture. The Ministers also launched the Sustainable Agriculture Innovation Network (SAIN) which will help address the link between agriculture and climate change. This new network will provide a clear plan for the development and implementation of China-UK collaboration on environmentally sustainable agriculture.
Launching SAIN, Hilary Benn said: 'We want to work with China to promote sustainable agriculture. This network will enable us to do this. It will help us to learn from each other and share expertise so that we are more resource and carbon efficient and reduce our impact on the environment. This will be important not only for China and the UK, but for the world as a whole as we face the challenge of increasing food production in an environmentally sustainable way at a time of growing impacts of climate change'.
For more about SAIN, see here.
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