Does household composition matter? The impact of the Grain for Green Program on rural livelihoods in China

Liang, Yansheng; Li, Shuzhuo; Feldman, Marcus W.; Daily, Gretchen C.

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.01.019

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“…So far, most economic papers have studied the impact of the policy on rural households' production and food security (Feng et al, 2005;, on peasants' income (Liang et al, 2012;Liu et al, 2010;Yao et al, 2010), on poverty (Uchida et al, 2007) or on labour transfer into off-farm sectors (Démurger and Wan, 2012;Groom et al, 2010;Uchida et al, 2009;Yao et al, 2010). In contrast, the question of the long-run sustainability of the programme has received much less attention, although it is of obvious critical importance.…”

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Volunteer and satisfied? Rural households' participation in a payments for environmental services programme in Inner Mongolia

Démurger

Pelletier

2015

Ecological Economics

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Abstract:Using survey data from Inner Mongolia, this paper explores the role of stakeholder engagement in the implementation of the Sloping Land Conversion Programme (SLCP), a payments for environmental services programme designed to restore forest in degraded land. Based on the idea that volunteerism and satisfaction with the programme's outcome are two important components of the programme's viability, we successively analyse the intensity of households' participation in the programme and their reported satisfaction with its economic achievement, which we relate to their stated volunteerism. We show that households' participation intensity in the SLCP is primarily driven by land and location characteristics, and that these findings hold true whether or not the households voluntarily enrolled in the programme. Moreover, as far as participants' satisfaction can be interpreted as an indicator of potential long-term support for the programme, our findings also support plausible sustainability for the programme. Keywords:Payments for environmental services, Sloping Land Conversion Programme, Household participation, Life satisfaction, China Abstract: Using survey data from Inner Mongolia, this paper explores the role of stakeholder engagement in the implementation of the Sloping Land Conversion Programme (SLCP), a payments for environmental services programme designed to restore forest in degraded land. Based on the idea that volunteerism and satisfaction with the programme's outcome are two important components of the programme's viability, we successively analyse the intensity of households' participation in the programme and their reported satisfaction with its economic achievement, which we relate to their stated volunteerism. We show that households' participation intensity in the SLCP is primarily driven by land and location characteristics, and that these findings hold true whether or not the households voluntarily enrolled in the programme. Moreover, as far as participants' satisfaction can be interpreted as an indicator of potential long-term support for the programme, our findings also support plausible sustainability for the programme.

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Volunteer and satisfied? Rural households' participation in a payments for environmental services programme in Inner Mongolia

Démurger

Pelletier

2015

Ecological Economics

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“…He suggested that environmental damage should be directly compensated to individuals in the adjacent communities [27]. In some large, nationwide ecological projects such as "Grain for Green" in China, the ecological compensation accounts for a small part of peasants' income, usually lower than 17 percent of the total annual income in those regions being deployed by the projects, while the transaction cost across administrative levels are seldom reported [28,29]. This raises some questions.…”

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Integrated Land Governance for Eco-Urbanization

2016

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"Eco-urbanization" emphasizes the importance of the ecological and environmental aspects of urbanization, which is to approach a balanced and healthy ecosystem through paying attention to the ecological intercorrelation of many factors. This involves balancing the stocks and utilization of multi-resources and balancing the efficiency and equality of multi-resources allocation to improve the quality of life for both urban and rural areas. In this dynamic process, resource allocations are carried out at different administrative levels, which have posed challenges of developing an integrated approach for eco-urbanization. Due to interaction and intersection of ecological activities among adjacent regions, a complex ecosystem tends to be in a fluid catchment area with dynamic flows of activities that transcend rigid administrative boundaries. The management of ecosystem sensitively impinges on the effectiveness of having an integrated approach of land governance in a comprehensive planning of urban-rural development. This will require scientific findings to support a policy-oriented management approach, which can take account of land use/cover changes (LUCC), ecosystem services and functions, interactive impacts of socio-economic transformation and climatic variations for optimum land use allocation to achieve the objective of ecosystem conservation and socio-economic development for both urban and rural area in a sustainable approach. Three aspects of development are identified as the importance of achieving advanced land governance for eco-urbanization. This paper aims to discuss these in turn: first, to find the adaptive measures in response to the uncertainty of climatic variation; second, to understand and research the scale and level of sustainable consumption for balancing resource saving and consumption; and third, to study ecological intercorrelation among multiple factors. We, therefore, argue that the far insight of "economic growth" via an ecologically-centered approach based on scientific solutions of all three aspects and intergovernmental consultations is important to support land governance for eco-urbanization and to strike a balance between environmental conservation and economic development.

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“…The ecological environment of Loess Plateau has been recovered to some extent and lots of steep cultivated lands were restored to vegetation [21][22][23]. However, it is not necessarily true that GFG will benefit all households and improve local rural living conditions [24][25][26]. Besides, there is an urgent concern that farmers get less and less subsidies and possibly reclaimed land if the Grain for Green Project subsidy policy weakens [27][28][29][30].…”

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The Transformation of Agricultural Development towards a Sustainable Future from an Evolutionary View on the Chinese Loess Plateau: A Case Study of Fuxian County

Guo

Liu

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Sustainability

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Abstract:The Loess Plateau in China receives lots of attention from around the world. The expansion of bad agricultural practices for hundreds of years aggravated the soil erosion on the Loess Plateau, however, and a lot of efforts were and are being made to reduce the serious soil erosion as well as regional poverty. Agricultural development of the Loess Plateau is still confronted with intricate challenges such as food concerns, environment concerns, and regional poverty. The strategy of development towards sustainability offers a possible and important way to face the challenges. This study tried to develop a holistic "variation-selection-replication-retention" model to analyze the transformation of agricultural development from an evolutionary view which is generally integrative. It is indicated that policies should be lively and vibrant organisms full of innovations owning to ever-changing environment in the evolutionary view. Under this analytical framework, one possible path from serious soil erosion region to region with sustainable agriculture could be recognized in the case study of Fuxian County: serious soil erosion regions → regions with poor production conditions → production-optimized regions → regions with developed agriculture → regions with sustainable agriculture. Diversified integrative development is suggested due to regional differences and the possible developing order in Fuxian County. State-subsidized "Grain for Green" policy and diversified land use are necessary for the transformation of serious soil erosion regions OPEN ACCESS Sustainability 2014, 6 3645 which are usually trapped in regional poverty. To the transformation of regions with poor production conditions, a state-subsidized "production optimization" policy and diversified land use deserve to be considered, due to regional poverty in regions with poor production conditions. Agricultural scale operation is priority for the transformation of production-optimized regions towards agricultural modernization. Ecological thinking is very helpful for the transformation of regions with developed agriculture. The area of serious soil erosion regions in Fuxian County has dropped down from 1760 km 2 in 1949 to 360.6 km 2 in 2010. The diversified integrative routine tends to be one possible way to realize the development towards sustainability.

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Does household composition matter? The impact of the Grain for Green Program on rural livelihoods in China

Cited by 92 publications

References 24 publications

Volunteer and satisfied? Rural households' participation in a payments for environmental services programme in Inner Mongolia

Volunteer and satisfied? Rural households' participation in a payments for environmental services programme in Inner Mongolia

Integrated Land Governance for Eco-Urbanization

The Transformation of Agricultural Development towards a Sustainable Future from an Evolutionary View on the Chinese Loess Plateau: A Case Study of Fuxian County

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