World Bank to Support China in Agricultural Land Pollution Control
(WorldNews Environment)

August 22, 2017, Washington D.C. - The World Bank`s Board of Executive Directors approved a $100 million loan today to demonstrate a risk-based integrated approach to managing heavy metal pollution in agricultural land in China`s Hunan Province in support of the government`s efforts to ensure food safety and security for the population. Over the past decades, China has successfully fed its population of 1.3 billion people with less than seven percent of the world`s arable land. However, China also faces agricultural land pollution by heavy metals...