HUBEI SAFE, SUSTAINABLE, SMART AGRICULTURE PROJECT (WB-P172224)

Regions
  • East Asia and Pacific
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Countries
  • China
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Specific Location
Hubei province
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Financial Institutions
  • World Bank (WB)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Approved
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
B
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Voting Date
Mar 31, 2021
Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.
Borrower
Government of the People's Republic of China
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Agriculture and Forestry
  • Law and Government
  • Technical Cooperation
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Type(s)
Grant
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 6.28 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Grant Amount (USD)
$ 6.28 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 351.96 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
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Updated in EWS Jul 31, 2024

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Project Description
If provided by the financial institution, the Early Warning System Team writes a short summary describing the purported development objective of the project and project components. Review the complete project documentation for a detailed description.

As stated by the World Bank, the project development objective (PDO) is to promote integrated environmentally sustainable and climate-smart agriculture, and agri-food quality and safety, in targeted value chains and landscapes in Hubei Province. The project design is organized around three distinct elements: (i) the systems for defining, detecting, and monitoring agro-environmental hazards and food quality and safety risks; (ii) demonstration and scaling up of applications of improved farming practices and other investments which impact product quality, environmental sustainability, and climate-smartness in selected value chains; and (iii) effective project monitoring, oversight, and knowledge management. Accordingly, the project will have three components to support activities and investments contributing to the above PDO.

Component 1 will primarily support provincial-level institutional, capacity, standards, and incentives development for promoting and monitoring 3S practices in the Hubei agri-food system.
Component 2 will support the demonstration of key 3S practices at the level of select farms and processors in the targeted value chains and landscapes of five Hubei counties, and the scaling-up of those practices more broadly through demonstration activities. It will also strengthen farmer cooperatives to allow members to fully benefit from project-supported investments.
Component 3 will ensure that there is adequate capacity at the level of the provincial and county PMOs to implement the project, and will also promote sharing of the knowledge generated by the project beyond the project counties, beyond Hubei, and even beyond China. 

Investment Description
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