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Group 5

Group Member: Rui Mao, Rui Yi, Grace Ho, Yinuo Lu

Project title: The small-scale sustainable agriculture

Research question: How does China keep sustainability while taking small-scaled farming practice?

Rui Mao, a vantage student in UBC, from China. She has been Canada for 2 years, and already have some basis knowledge about the agricultural here. Before studied in UBC, she had learned some courses about China’s specific geographical and human environment. While taking the course VANT 148, the project we chose about sustainable agriculture helped her to explore more about the situation in China. Although she does have a rich experience and huge knowledge about agriculture, she is willing to learn about people’s different opinions and thoughts.

Grace Ho, a vantage student in UBC, from Hong Kong. She has been studied in Canada for several years since high-school, which let she has wider knowledge about sustainable agriculture in Canada. Moreover, due to her growth environment in both Hong Kong and Mainland China, she has different views on China’s different policies on agriculture which can provide us with more experience and different points of view.

Rui Yi, a UBC student in Vantage Arts, aged 19, from Mainland China. She has a wide range of hobbies, like traveling, listening to music, playing chess. She is cheerful and easygoing. She can get along well with my relatives and friends. Traveling makes her have full confidence in life. Two years’ in Canada makes her have a strong interest in local development, the VANT 149 project about sustainable agriculture gives her a good chance to learn about the difference between China and Canada.

Yinuo Lu, a student in Vantage Arts in the University of British Columbia (UBC). Growing up in the Northern China, I am familiar with farming stuff because my grandparents have a farm in my hometown. I often hear about what should plant in every season, how to plant, and the characteristics of each crop, etc. However, the cost of acquiring enough grain yields is the overused of nitrogen fertilization, which would cause environmental degradation. As far as I know, small-farm-holders are pretty dominant in Chinese agricultural sectors. Therefore, I feel worry about negatives harms to the environment and blocks to develop agricultural sustainability due to the excess input of synthetic chemicals. Choosing this topic of the research, I would like to find alternative method of gaining adequate harvest with the minimum of environmental pollution, which is expanding the farm size. Influenced by my grandparents, I am used to reading books regularly about Chinese geographic and agriculture. In my university period, besides studying the courses, I am going to adhere to the habit of reading regularly, which can not only enrich my extracurricular life, but also improve my knowledge system.