Farmer's attitudes towards the Grain-for-Green programme in the Loess hilly area, China: A case study in two small catchments

Hu, Chenxia; Fu, Bojie; Chen, Liding; Gulinck, Hubert

doi:10.1080/13504500609469673

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“…The GTGP has improved the socioeconomic wellbeing of participating households in most areas (44). The vast majority of households surveyed were happy with the GTGP (33,45).…”

Section: Grain To Green Programmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Many studies have indicated that if subsidies end, it is possible that some of the converted forest and grassland will be converted back to cropland (45) and natural forests will be logged again (52). Considering these and other factors, the central government has recently extended the GTGP for another cycle of 2-8 years.…”

Section: Opportunities Challenges and Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ecological and socioeconomic effects of China's policies for ecosystem services

Liu

Ouyang

et al. 2008

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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To address devastating environmental crises and to improve human well-being, China has been implementing a number of national policies on payments for ecosystem services. Two of them, the Natural Forest Conservation Program (NFCP) and the Grain to Green Program (GTGP), are among the biggest programs in the world because of their ambitious goals, massive scales, huge payments, and potentially enormous impacts. The NFCP conserves natural forests through logging bans and afforestation with incentives to forest enterprises, whereas the GTGP converts cropland on steep slopes to forest and grassland by providing farmers with grain and cash subsidies. Overall ecological effects are beneficial, and socioeconomic effects are mostly positive. Whereas there are time lags in ecological effects, socioeconomic effects are more immediate. Both the NFCP and the GTGP also have global implications because they increase vegetative cover, enhance carbon sequestration, and reduce dust to other countries by controlling soil erosion. The future impacts of these programs may be even bigger. Extended payments for the GTGP have recently been approved by the central government for up to 8 years. The NFCP is likely to follow suit and receive renewed payments. To make these programs more effective, we recommend systematic planning, diversified funding, effective compensation, integrated research, and comprehensive monitoring. Effective implementation of these programs can also provide important experiences and lessons for other ecosystem service payment programs in China and many other parts of the world.conservation ͉ environment ͉ forests ͉ grassland ͉ sustainability

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“…The GTGP has improved the socioeconomic wellbeing of participating households in most areas (44). The vast majority of households surveyed were happy with the GTGP (33,45).…”

Section: Grain To Green Programmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Opportunities Challenges and Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ecological and socioeconomic effects of China's policies for ecosystem services

Liu

Ouyang

et al. 2008

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

1,152

696

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“…The program covered 15 million farmers in 25 provinces by the end of 2002 and will have set aside 15 m ha of cropland by 2010, an area larger than the Conservation Reserve Program in the United States (Uchida et al, 2007). However the long-term sustainability of the program remains uncertain should the government withdraw payment support once the program stops after 10 years (Hu et al, 2006). Although this effort significantly helped improved the watersheds to control rampant flooding on the river, it has put extra pressure on other areas to produce more grain from lesser use of resources at the national level.…”

Section: Grain For Green Programmentioning

confidence: 99%

Water management and crop production for food security in China: A review

Khan

Hanjra

2009

Agricultural Water Management

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“…However, the interests of farmers were often neglected in policy design, which in turn led to low social acceptance and eventual failure of many ecological restoration projects (Geist and Galatowitsch 1999;Choi 2004;Buckley and Crone 2008). Therefore, farmers' participation is central to the ecological restoration process (Higgs 1997;Hu et al 2006;Cairns 2000). For the success of ecological restoration, more attention should be paid in policy design to the potential implications of farmers' willingness and expectation toward projects, especially in areas of large population and suffering conflicts between ecological restoration and local economic development.…”

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confidence: 99%

Farmers’ Willingness to Participate in the Next-Stage Grain-for-Green Project in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China

Lan

2015

Environmental Management

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The policy implications for success in the next-stage Grain-for-Green Project (GFGP) in China are analyzed from the perspectives of farmers' willingness. The ecological protection belt of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area was chosen as the case study area, where 1207 valid questionnaire surveys based on participatory rural appraisal were collected in 2012. Our study found that farmers with lower levels of education, older age, and higher livelihood dependency on farmland were more prone to reclamation if the compensation ended. Females and non-migrants were more reluctant to participate in the next GFGP than others. Nevertheless, traditional farming was no longer a preferred livelihood by all respondents. The majority of respondents (74.4%) wished to be liberated from the low-income farmland work through the next GFGP, and half of them (50.6%) hoped to get non-cash compensation. The Willingness to Accept (WTA) values of the next GFGP showed significant social heterogeneity and regional difference, with an average of annual RMB¥16,665 ha(-1), about 4.5 times the local compensation standard in 2000. By revealing some limitations of the uniform nationwide compensation standard system and the single payment form in adapting to evolving socioeconomic conditions, our study highlighted the importance of developing a region-based compensation standard system, integrating the next GFGP into regional sustainable development organically by more comprehensive alternative policy, and bonding a vertical partnership between the local community and the nation. Our study revealed some key elements for success in the future design of restoration projects in China.

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Farmer's attitudes towards the Grain-for-Green programme in the Loess hilly area, China: A case study in two small catchments

Cited by 37 publications

References 14 publications

Ecological and socioeconomic effects of China's policies for ecosystem services

Ecological and socioeconomic effects of China's policies for ecosystem services

Water management and crop production for food security in China: A review

Farmers’ Willingness to Participate in the Next-Stage Grain-for-Green Project in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China

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