The session will showcase best practices and lessons from ADB’s Yangtze and Yellow River basin programs, demonstrating how natural capital approaches can drive the transformation of food systems. It will also provide a platform for sharing perspectives, discussing key challenges and opportunities, and identifying avenues for replication and knowledge exchange across the region.
Welcome
Ehsan Khan, Director General, East Asia Department, ADB
Session 1: Food Systems Transformation through a natural capital lens
Moderator: Au Shion Yee, Principal Water Resources Specialist, SD2-AFNR
- Food Systems Transformation through natural capital approaches: Challenges and Opportunities
Sanath Ranawana, Director, SD2-AFNR - Advancing PRC’s “Store Grain in the Land” Strategy for Sustainable Development
Zixiong Chen, Deputy Director General, Farmland Enhancement Department, Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Affairs, PRC - Project case study: Yangtze River Green Ecological Corridor Comprehensive Agriculture Development Project
Zhiming Niu, Lead Project Officer (Environment), SD2-AFNR
Session 2: Innovative financing mechanisms
Moderator: Xueliang Cai, Senior Water Resources Specialist, SD2-AFNR
- Developing PRC’s first biodiversity credit methodologies and case study in the Chishui River Basin
Xiaoquan Zhang, Head, The Nature Conservancy China - From Eco-compensation to carbon credits: ADB-Tencent partnership
Ella Wang, Senior Program Director, Carbon Neutrality Lab, Tencent - Project case study: Huangshan Green Investment Fund and Green Incentive Fund
Faqiang Hu, Deputy Director General, Huangshan Municipal Development and Reform Commission, PRC - Reinventing PES from the Ground Up: a Community-driven Place-based Model
Kevin Chen, Senior Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute
Discussion and Reflections
Moderator: Sanath Ranawana, Director, SD2-AFNR
