Dr Stuart McDonald’s research has been focusing on creating policies that stimulate the adoption of technologies for sustainable development. One of his projects is looking at promoting new technologies at the farm level. Together with his industry collaborator, Dr McDonald is working to establish a set of policies to incentivise technological adoption at a local farm in Ningbo.

His goal is to educate and train farmers to use precision agriculture technology from Israel, and to introduce new types of crops to increase yield for the salt enriched soils.