A Framework of Payment for Ecosystem Services to Protect Cropland: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta in China

Jie, Guo; Zhu, Tianqi; Ming-hao, OU; Pei, Fengsong; Gan, Xiaoyu; Ou, Wei; Yu, Tao

doi:10.3390/su10010178

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“…Rapid urbanization has taken up a lot of fertile farmlands, among which the supply of cultivated land in Shanghai, eastern Zhejiang, and southern Jiangsu is currently unable to meet demand. 13 During 2005–2015, the rate of farmland loss in 16 cities in the YRD reached 69.02 hm2 during the 20-year period, of which 87.1% was caused by urban sprawl. 14 Economic agglomeration also brings about a decline in the quality of cultivated land.…”

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Does economic agglomeration improve agricultural green total factor productivity? Evidence from China's Yangtze river delta

Wang

Liu

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Science Progress

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Economic agglomeration plays an important role in China's social transformation process of industry feeding agriculture and urban supporting rural areas, and is one of the core weapons to promote agricultural economic growth and green and efficient development. Based on panel data of 41 cities in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) from 2010 to 2020, this paper constructs an “environment-resource-energy-economy” agricultural input-output system, taking into account carbon emissions and surface pollution, and provides a more comprehensive accounting of agricultural green total factor productivity (AGTFP), the non-linear effects of economic agglomeration on AGTFP and shock responses were empirically analyzed using a panel threshold model and a panel vector autoregression (VAR), respectively. The findings show that: (1) during the period 2010–2020, the AGTFP in the YRD showed an overall rising trend with regional spatial agglomeration characteristics. (2) Economic agglomeration has a triple threshold effect on AGTFP, which was a weak facilitative effect in the early stage, inhibited by the siphoning effect of resource loss and arable land fragmentation in the growth stage, promoted by the radiation effect of external increasing return to scale in the form of sharing, matching and learning in the maturity stage, and finally tends to decline. (3) The shock response of economic agglomeration to AGTFP showed a continuous positive shock, peaking in the first period and then gradually converging to zero. (4) The heterogeneity analysis demonstrated that economic agglomeration has a considerable impact on boosting AGTFP in non-metropolitan areas and cities on the outskirts of YRD. In the future, China should effectively play a positive role in economic agglomeration on AGTFP and enhance the mutual coordination of economic agglomeration and agricultural green development in the process of urban cluster economic growth.

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Does economic agglomeration improve agricultural green total factor productivity? Evidence from China's Yangtze river delta

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“…The best projects are also described in several publications. Guo et al (2018) present a framework of payment for ecosystem services to protect cropland in China, whereas Kim et al (2019) refer to a project aim surrounding Zero Hunger in communities from Tanzania and Bangladesh. Food for work programmes are also considered to face food insecurity in Ethiopia (Abebe, 2020).…”

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Food security and social protection in times of COVID-19

Peláez

Erro‐Garcés

Pérez-García

2022

International Social Work

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From the perspective of social work, it is important to analyse food insecurity before and during the COVID-19, identify the best practices and how social work can contribute to improving living conditions. Using a meta-analysis, this article reviews how food security is addressed in the literature to better inform social policies from a social work perspective. A search of the literature revealed 217 articles between 2010 and 2021. The descriptors for the search were food security, food aid and social work. The main results are the identification of key aspects to inform social policies and promote sustainable social change worldwide.

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“…[43]. Regarding the division of compensation areas, currently, the most widely used method is the division of cultivated land surplus/deficit areas based on the food security method [44]. However, economic value is often obtained through food security [45,46], and little attention is paid to the nonmarket value of cultivated land.…”

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Quantitatively Determining the Priorities of Regional Ecological Compensation for Cultivated Land in Different Main Functional Areas: A Case Study of Hubei Province, China

Chen

Wang

2021

Land

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With the rapid economic growth and urbanisation process, a large amount of cultivated land has been permanently transformed into urban land. The protection of cultivated land has received widespread attention, and ecological compensation has been an effective means of restraining the decrease in cultivated land. Different from previous approaches to and methods of studying cultivated land’s ecological compensation, this study proposes a new behavioural perspective. Reasonably determining the priority of ecological compensation and the amount of compensation constitutes the core of building a regional ecological compensation mechanism. On the basis of the main functional area, this paper defines the area of ecological compensation and payment for cultivated land and determines the corresponding order and level by measuring the ecosystem’s service value in Hubei Province. The results show that the order and quantity of ecological compensation for cultivated land are spatially heterogeneous, and that the order and quantity of compensation (payment) in different main functional areas have a certain correlation. That is, when the order of compensation (payment) is higher, the quantity is larger. The results have a certain reference value for the reform of cultivated land’s ecological compensation and the innovation of financial payment mechanisms, particularly in the context of developing countries.

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A Framework of Payment for Ecosystem Services to Protect Cropland: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta in China

Cited by 9 publications

References 45 publications

Does economic agglomeration improve agricultural green total factor productivity? Evidence from China's Yangtze river delta

Does economic agglomeration improve agricultural green total factor productivity? Evidence from China's Yangtze river delta

Food security and social protection in times of COVID-19

Quantitatively Determining the Priorities of Regional Ecological Compensation for Cultivated Land in Different Main Functional Areas: A Case Study of Hubei Province, China

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