Fujian Farmland Sustainable Utilization and Demonstration

Client: Asian Development Bank

Duration: 2015-2016

Location: Fujian Province, PRC

Contract Value: USD 578,154

Loan Project Value: USD 175.13 million

Catalogue: Agriculture

Project Description

The Project Preparatory TA aims at defining the scope and design of the project and preparing relevant documents that respond to the government’s needs and comply with ADB’s requirement. The project will promote cooperation among PPEs, cooperatives, and farmers. Impacts of different cooperation mechanisms will be examined to incorporate mutually beneficial cooperation mechanism into the project design. This will help Fujian’s agriculture become more sustainable, productive, and market-oriented. It will also facilitate quality control throughout the value chain as Fujian promotes certified green and organic products, which fit with the organic and reduced chemical-use farming that the project will promote. The project will strengthen climate change adaptation by addressing climate change impacts on production systems via the Climate Smart Agriculture approach. The project will focus on 16 project counties where townships will be selected in consideration of poverty rate and/or degree of environmental degradation. The project outputs included: (i) productive farmland established; (ii) sustainable farming technology and practices adopted: and (iii) institutional capacity strengthened.

Services Provided by NAREE

NAREE provided the preparation technical assistance (PPTA) to prepare the loan project, undertaking due diligence in technical, safeguards, economic and financial, and poverty and socials. NAREE ensured the project in compliance with the domestic and ADB’s requirements and incorporation of international best practices in the project design. Detailed tasks conducted by NAREE during the PPTA includes the followings:

• Assessment of the project's technical, economic, and financial feasibility

• Safeguards due diligence, including survey and field study, environmental, social and resettlement assessment, relevant action plan and others according to ADB’s requirements

• Project documents preparation according to ADB’s requirements

• Assistance of FPG in revising domestic feasibility studies and improving safeguard documents in line with ADB's and the government's requirements; and

• Training and capacity development