Varieties of agri-environmental schemes in China: A quantitative assessment

Lanlan, Zhu; Zhang, Chunman; Yin-ying, Cai

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.11.014

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“…We infer that the higher the level of education, the more profound the farmers' perceptions of the policy. This result is also consistent with that of Zhu et al [19]. However, it is generally low of the current education level of rural labor in China, with an average education period of approximately 8.37 years [44].…”

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“…However, farmers' satisfaction with the policy is not only affected by the characteristics of the policy, but also by the characteristics of the farmers and their families. For example, young and well-educated farmers can comply with the agreement and improve their cultivated land protection behavior after receiving economic compensation [19,20]. Farmers' livelihood characteristics, such as farmland size and economic status, have considerable effects on farmers' satisfaction [21].…”

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Farmers’ Satisfaction and its Influencing Factors in the Policy of Economic Compensation for Cultivated Land Protection: A Case Study in Chengdu, China

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With the rapid progress of urbanization, the loss of cultivated land has attracted great attention worldwide, and economic compensation is one of the incentives commonly used by the governments to enhance farmers’ enthusiasm in protecting cultivated land. In recent years, although various economic compensation modes have been implemented by the Chinese government, such modes are still experimental and exploratory. Thus, designing and implementing a national economic compensation mode is urgent to effectively protect the quantity and quality of cultivated land. This study focuses on the mode of cultivated land protection fund (CLPF) in Chengdu, which is the earliest mode of the implementation of economic compensation in China in 2008. First, we analyzed the farmers’ satisfaction with the CLPF through a face-to-face interview with 296 farmers in Chengdu. Then, we used the path analysis method to identify the influencing factors of farmers’ satisfaction from the characteristics of farmers and the policy. Results show that the CLPF was generally supported by farmers. Nevertheless, room for improvement still exists. Particularly, farmers’ satisfaction was low in the design of the government’s supervision management of the CLPF. Farmers’ satisfaction with compensation standard, funding use requirement, and the government’s supervision management were remarkably affected by factors, including farmers’ educational level, cultivated land area, total annual agricultural income, farmers’ knowledge of the CLPF, farmers’ recognition of the value of the CLPF, and farmers’ perception of the changes in household economics. Particularly, the direct influence of farmers’ perception of the changes in household economics was the most important. Finally, we proposed the recommendations for constructing a national economic compensation mode for cultivated land protection. Our results have certain guiding significance for promoting the sustainable development of cultivated land protection policies by means of economic incentives in China and other countries.

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Farmers’ Satisfaction and its Influencing Factors in the Policy of Economic Compensation for Cultivated Land Protection: A Case Study in Chengdu, China

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“…Payments for these 'agri-environmental measures' now account for 7% of the entire CAP budget and are intended to compensate farmers for reduced income as a result of implementing them. In China, agri-environmental payments are also widely used, but most often to protect prime farmland from urban development [25]. A simple system of area-based payments for forest retention-perhaps with a premium for forest quality-might be enough to encourage forest conservation on private land in Xishuangbanna, and also in other regions of Yunnan facing similar issues.…”

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Reasons for the Survival of Tropical Forest Fragments in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China

Zhang

Mammides

Corlett

2020

Forests

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Research Highlights: The reasons for persistence of forest fragments in human-dominated landscapes have rarely been examined, despite their importance in biodiversity and ecosystem services. We determined these reasons for forest fragments on collective land in Xishuangbanna prefecture, southwest China. Background and Objectives: Reconciling economic development with biodiversity conservation has been a major challenge in China’s small tropical land area, where local realities have often been in conflict with national policies. In Xishuangbanna, much of China’s most biodiverse forest area has been replaced by cash crops in recent decades, but numerous small forest fragments remain on collective land. Our objective was to find out why these fragments have not been cleared. Methods: We used a combination of semi-structured interviews with 600 households in 69 villages representing nine ethnic groups and information from key informants. Results: Overall, 64% of individual households retained forest fragments on the land allocated to them, and 93% of villages retained larger areas managed as a collective forest. Most (71%) interviewees said that fragments on their own land were on sites of low agricultural value and were retained as fuelwood sources. They were also often (33%) underplanted with crops and supplied other forest products. All interviewees attributed the retention of collective forests to policy restrictions on clearance, with most (96%) mentioning cultural and religious uses and many recognizing environmental benefits. Most were also used as sources of wild edible plants (61%) and other forest products. Many said these collective forests had shrunk over time, particularly in areas suitable for profitable cultivation. Conclusions: China’s new ecological redline policy will protect most larger patches of forest in Xishuangbanna, but the smaller fragments on land allocated to individual households are also of conservation value, particularly in areas with no other forest. Some form of compensation scheme is needed to encourage their continued retention.

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“…This approach required TVEs to concentrate in industrial parks and economic development zones [47,48]. Since 2000, a series of ecological and residential environment management initiatives have been carried out by the local government in rural areas echoing national policies, such as payments for ecosystem services and farmland eco-compensation schemes [49,50]. At the same time, developing rural tourism services was also encouraged to adjust and optimize rural industrial structures, extend the agricultural industrial chain, promote nonagricultural employment, and increase the incomes of villagers in rural areas with tourism resources [51].…”

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Emerging Location-Based Service Data on Perceiving and Measuring Multifunctionality of Rural Space: A Study of Suzhou, China

Yuan

Zhang

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Sustainability

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Understanding how human mobilities reconstruct contemporary rural space is of great significance to multifunctional rural transition. However, conventional approaches adopted by social surveys have a technological restriction on collecting data of individual behavior, such as limited samples, subjective self-reported data, and time-consuming investigation. This study proposes a data-driven methodology to explore multifunctionality of rural space by employing the real-time Tencent user quantity (RTUQ) data to analyze the quantity and distribution of observables in rural space. Based on over 250,000 records of hourly RTUQ data during a one-week research period, we perceive spatiotemporal variation of human mobilities in three differentiated villages in Suzhou, China, as well as measure function of residence, employment and consumption on holidays, weekdays and weekends using original equations of function index. Results show that the RTUQ data is valid and reliable for perceiving dynamic patterns of human mobilities at village level, as well as offering new implication for transitional pathways of decision-making. The proposed method is proved to be suitable for distinguishing and comparing multifunctionality of rural space in various times and places, future research on exploring contemporary rural space towards multifunctionality with more geospatial big data is put forward.

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Varieties of agri-environmental schemes in China: A quantitative assessment

Cited by 21 publications

References 43 publications

Farmers’ Satisfaction and its Influencing Factors in the Policy of Economic Compensation for Cultivated Land Protection: A Case Study in Chengdu, China

Farmers’ Satisfaction and its Influencing Factors in the Policy of Economic Compensation for Cultivated Land Protection: A Case Study in Chengdu, China

Reasons for the Survival of Tropical Forest Fragments in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China

Emerging Location-Based Service Data on Perceiving and Measuring Multifunctionality of Rural Space: A Study of Suzhou, China

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