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Biography
Dr Yuelai Lu is the Head of the Secretariat of UK-China Sustainable Agriculture Innovation Network (SAIN) and a Research Fellow at University of East Anglia, UK. He is specialized in sustainable agriculture and rural development. He received BSc and MSc of soil conservation from Beijing Forestry University in 1982 and 1985, PhD of natural resource development from University of East Anglia in 1998.
Dr Lu was a lecturer at Northwest Forestry College of China between 1985 and 1996; Research Officer at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) from 1998 to 2001; Research Fellow at University of East Anglia since 2001. He has been consultant to ADB, FAO, World Bank, EU, Dfid, BIS, and FCO on various projects related to sustainable agriculture and rural development in China and Africa.
From 2007-2008 Dr Lu was the consultant to the establishment of SAIN and Head of SAIN Secretariat since 2008.
For more information about SAIN, please visit www.sainonline.org
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Projects
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China Prosperity Fund (FCO) - Yuelai Lu
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
15/06/16 → 31/03/17
Project: Research
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N-CIRCLE: Virtual Joint Centre for Closed-Loop Cycling of Nitrogen in Chinese Agriculture
Lu, Y., Smith, P., Baggs, E., Bingham, I., Cai, Z., Cao, W., Gilligan, C., Griffiths, H., Gu, A., Hillier, J., Houdijk, J., Ju, X., Liu, H., Morley, N., Pan, G., Rees, B., Ren, T., Roehe, R., Shen, Z., Shi, W., Topp, K., Wang, A., Wang, A., Wang, X., Wang, X., Wu, A., Yan, X. & Yi, K.
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
1/01/16 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
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Newton Fund for the Remote Sensing for Sustainable Intensification in China through Improved Farm Decision-Making
Crawford, J. & Lu, Y.
Science and Technology Facilities Council
30/06/15 → 29/06/16
Project: Research
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Progress on improving agricultural nitrogen use efficiency: UK-China virtual joint centers on nitrogen agronomy
Misselbrook, T., Bai, Z., Cai, Z., Cao, W., Carswell, A., Cowan, N., Cui, Z., Chadwick, D., Emmett, B., Goulding, K., Jiang, R., Jones, D., Ju, X., Liu, H., Lu, Y., Ma, L., Powlson, D., Rees, R., Skiba, U., Smith, P., & 9 others, Oct 2022, In: Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering. 9, 3, p. 475-489 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Soil quality both increases crop production and improves resilience to climate change
Qiao, L., Wang, X., Smith, P., Fan, J., Lu, Y., Emmett, B., Li, R., Dorling, S., Chen, H., Liu, S., Benton, T. G., Wang, Y., Ma, Y., Jiang, R., Zhang, F., Piao, S., Müller, C., Yang, H., Hao, Y., Li, W., & 1 others, Jun 2022, In: Nature Climate Change. 12, 6, p. 574–580 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile88 Citations (Scopus)28 Downloads (Pure) -
Benefits of China's land consolidation
Lu, Y., 16 Dec 2021, In: Nature Food. 2, 12, p. 926-927 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Agriculture green development in China and the UK: Common objectives and converging policy pathways
Lu, Y., Norse, D. & Powlson, D., 2 Mar 2020, In: Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering. 7, 1, p. 98-105 8 p., 98.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Assessment of the growth in social groups for sustainable agriculture and land management
Pretty, J., Attwood, S., Bawden, R., van den Berg, H., Bharucha, Z. P., Dixon, J., Flora, C. B., Gallagher, K., Genskow, K., Hartley, S. E., Ketelaar, J. W., Kiara, J. K., Kumar, V., Lu, Y., Macmillan, T., Maréchal, A., Morales-Abubakar, A. L., Noble, A., Prasad, P. V. V., Rametsteiner, E., & 9 others, Sep 2020, In: Global Sustainability. 3, e23.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile41 Citations (Scopus)13 Downloads (Pure)