About the Project
The Sino-German Agricultural Centre (DCZ) is a joint initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (MARA).
DCZ Newsletter
Recent developments in China with relevance to Sino-German cooperation in the agricultural sector and current DCZ activities!
Latest DCZ Publications
Brief analyses, studies and policy briefs looking into current topics of the agricultural sector in China and Germany.
DCZ Publications
Studies
Study - Blockchain in Agriculture (2021-03)
Study - Digitalisation in Agriculture, supplemented (2020-12)
Study-Digitalisation_in_Agriculture-supplemented-12_2020.pdf (733.8 KiB)
Study - Seed Market in China (2020-09)
Study - Value Chain of Soybeans in China (2020-03)
Study-Value_chain_of_soybeans_in_China-03_2020.pdf (878.0 KiB)
Study - Value Chain of Soybeans in China and Germany (2020-03)
Study-Soybeans_Value_Chain_in_China_and_Germany-03_2020.pdf (831.0 KiB)
Study - Biofertilizers in China - A Potential Strategy for China's Sustainable Agriculture (2020-02)
Collected Specialist Publication - Climate Change and Agriculture - Perspectives from China and Germany (2020-02)
Study - Agrobiodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning and Adaptation to Climate Change (2020-01)
Study - DCZ-Beitrag - Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in Livestock and its Global Impact on Public Health (2019-12)
DCZ-Beitrag-Antimicrobial_Resistance-12_2019.pdf (743.6 KiB)
Study - Current Situation of Land Rights (rural/urban) in China (2019-11)
Study - DCZ-Beitrag - Digitalisierung in der Landwirtschaft in Deutschland und China (2019-05)
DCZ-Beitrag - Digitalisierung in der Landwirtschaft in Deutschland und China.pdf (1.4 MiB)
Reports
Report - DCZ Study Tour - Agricultural Policy Dialogue - “China’s Rural Land System Reform” (2019-09)
Report - DCZ Study Tour - Scientific Dialogue - "Digital Tools for Organic and Small-Scale Farming” (2019-07)
Report - New Development and New Opportunities - Sino-German Agribusiness Conference (2019-06-14)
New Development and New Opportunities - Sino-German Agribusiness Conference 2019.pdf (311.5 KiB)
Trade Press
Artikel - Online-Handel in China boomt (in German) (2020-04)
Artikel - Hightech auf dem Land (in German) (2018-09)
Policy Briefs and Papers
Policy Brief - The Strategy 2030 of the German Dairy Sector (2020-05)
Policy_Brief-German_Milk_Strategy 2030-05_2020.pdf (301.4 KiB)
Policy Brief - Livestock Production and Climate Change (2020-04)
Policy_Brief-livestock_production_and_climate_change-04_2020.pdf (361.1 KiB)
Policy Brief - Nutritional Transition in China (2020-03)
Policy_Brief-Nutritional_Transition_in_China-03_2020.pdf (357.8 KiB)
Policy Paper - Seed Cooperation - Recommendations (2019-06)
DCZ-Beitrag - Seed Cooperation - Recommendations.pdf (254.4 KiB)
Policy Brief - Rural Vitalization - Kernpunkt in Chinas Dokument Nr. 1 (2019-04)
DCZ-Beitrag - Rural Vitalization - Kernpunkt in Chinas Dokument Nr. 1.pdf (1.7 MiB)
Policy Paper - Land Rights and Land Use Management in Germany and the Czech Republic (2019)
Policy_Paper-Land_rights_in_Germany_and_Czech_Republic-2019.pdf (679.6 KiB)
Other DCZ Publications
Manual - "Weltacker" Guide to the Creation of a Global Plot, English version (2021-01)
Manual - "Weltacker" Guide to the Creation of a Global Plot, Chinese version (2021-01)
Brief Analysis - German Policy Instruments for Promoting Export of Agricultural Products (2020-09)
Brief-Analysis-German_Export_Instruments-09_2020.pdf (419.0 KiB)
Analyse - „Dokument Nr. 1“ - Zentrales Dokument zu Landwirtschaft und Ländlichen Angelegenheiten 2020 (2020-04)
Brief Analysis - Impact of the Coronavirus on Chinese Agriculture (2020-04)
Brief-Analysis-Impact_of_Coronavirus_on_Chinese_Agriculture-04_2020.pdf (378.1 KiB)
Brief Analysis - Impacts of the Coronavirus on German Agriculture (2020-03)
Brief-Analysis-Impact_of_Corona_on_German_Agriculture-03_2020.pdf (300.7 KiB)
Law Monitoring - Rural and Agricultural Digitalization Development Plan of China 2019-2025 (2020-02)
Law Monitoring - Amendments to China's Land Management Law - 2019 (2019-09)
Law Monitoring - Amendments to China's Land Management Law - 2019.pdf (1.2 MiB)