The capacity of land carbon sinks in poverty-stricken areas in China continues to increase in the process of eradicating extreme poverty: evidence from a study of poverty-stricken counties on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Hua, Lei; Ran, Rong; Xie, Mingjuan; Li, Tingrou

doi:10.1007/s10668-023-03337-3

Cited by 4 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 113 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Therefore, the protection and utilization of arable land resources is of special significance to ensure food security, ecological safety, and sustainable use of resources [5][6][7]. Previous studies reveal that about a quarter of the national poverty-stricken counties in China are subject to unfavorable constraints on land resources, mainly in terms of poor topographical conditions, poor arable land resources, scarcity and scattering, and serious degradation, which is not conducive to large-scale centralized operation and seriously affect the efficiency of agricultural production, thus affecting the livelihoods and incomes of the poor [8][9][10]. The optimization and integration of arable land resources serve as an important platform and foundation for the socio-economic development of poverty-stricken areas and a basic livelihood guarantee for the population in poverty-stricken areas [11,12].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why Have China’s Poverty Eradication Policy Resulted in the Decline of Arable Land in Poverty-Stricken Areas?

Ran,

Hua,

et al. 2023

Land

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Arable land resources are the basic livelihood security for people in poverty-stricken areas, and poor people are prone to uncontrolled expansion of arable land and exogenous ecological damage to secure their livelihoods. To avoid this vicious cycle, China’s poverty eradication policy requires greater management and restoration of arable land in poverty-stricken areas, but it is unknown what impacts it may bring. Therefore, this study examines the impact of policy implementation on arable land by the Difference-in-Differences (DID) model and uses the mediating and moderating models to test the policy’s mechanism on arable land. The results reveal that the policy significantly reduces the arable land, and the results remain robust, controlling for potential endogeneity variables and robustness tests. What’s more, the results of the mediating and moderating effect models indicate that the reduction of arable land is mainly due to the increase of unit yield, guiding the local people to abandon degraded land and to carry out ecological restoration, thus reducing the arable land area and achieving sustainable development. Finally, recommendations are proposed from the perspective of human-land coordination.

show abstract