Impact Hub

The CFRS encourages and supports ECRs to engage with multiple stakeholders to promote the vision and mission of CFRS. This Hub aims to promote public awareness about the challenges and good practices in sustainable food and rural transition in China and global south through blogs written by CFRS members or reports of relevant events via weblinks (with a bilingual title and short description).

Background of the CFRS:

The origin of the CFRS can be traced back to “Farmer innovation system in the Loess Plateau of China” (2009-2010), a part of UK’s ESPA Programme (Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation). The idea was further developed through an international workshop on “Global-local knowledge system for rural innovation and entrepreneurship in the developing world” (2019) and enriched by a GCRF Pilot Project: “Cooperative ecosystem to empower small farmers in the poor areas of China” (2020).

Thanks to the Newton-NSFC ECR Links Workshop Grant, “Systematic innovation for food security and rural sustainability”, this project attracted 41 ECRs mainly from UK and China. To cope with the interruption by Covid-19 Pandemic, a series of pre-workshop activities were arranged online for ECRs to meet mentors and stakeholder representatives via group meeting, methodological salons and roundtable meetings. The above preparation provides a sound base for UK-China ECR Links Workshop (8-9/12/2021) with aims to establish the CFRS through keynote speeches, ECR presentations and roundtable discussions. For the detailes of project implementation, research findings and outcomes, please see the report.