Our South Korean team has been running the “Cass Forest of Hope” for 14 years, partnering with the international environmental NGO “Green Asia Network” since 2010. As our signature biodiversity initiative, “Cass Forest of Hope” is a large-scale environmental improvement project to preserve forestation in Mongolia to prevent desertification due to climate change. We joined with the local Mongolian public to form volunteer groups to plant 46,200 trees over the past 14 years to restore soil in areas where land has been degraded due to desertification. This project has been awarded with recognitions such as UNCCD’s Land for Life Award.

We collaborated with the China Agriculture Academy in a low carbon barley program in 2023. The project aims to discover the carbon emission hotspots in the barley production chain and create an action plan to achieve low carbon barley production. A Life Cycle Assessment of local barley agriculture has been completed in phase one of the project. The research team is currently conducting experiments on barley cultivation developed under regenerative agriculture practices.