Overview
- Presents the first multidisciplinary examination of the Grain for Green program
- Offers an integrated approach linking social, economic, institutional, and ecological factors
- Reviews and analyzes the ecological and socio-economic consequences of Grain for Green, as well as the program's sustainability
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Why the Grain for Green?
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Overview of the Grain for Green
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The Impact of the Grain for Green Program
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About this book
This book provides a comprehensive review of Grain for Green, China’s nationwide program which pays farmers to revert sloping or marginal farm land to trees or grass. The program aims to improve the ecological conditions of much of China, and the socioeconomic circumstances of hundreds of millions of people. GfG is the largest reforestation, ecological restoration, and rural development initiative in history, combining the biggest investment, the greatest involvement, and the broadest degree of public participation ever.
The book is organised in three sections. Part One reviews the history of land management in China from 1949 to 1998, exploring the conditions that led to the introduction of GfG, and comparing it to other reforestation programs. Part Two offers an overview of GfG, describing the timeline of the program, compensation paid to farmers, the rules concerning land and plant selection, the extent to which these rules were followed, the attitudes of farmers towards the program, and the way in which the program is organized and implemented by various state actors. Part Three discusses the impact of the GfG, from both ecological and socio-economic standpoints, looking at the economic benefits that result from participating in the GfG, the impact of the GfG across local economies, the redistribution of the labor force and the sustainability of the program, in particular the question of what will happen to the converted land when payments to farmers end.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: China’s Grain for Green Program
Book Subtitle: A Review of the Largest Ecological Restoration and Rural Development Program in the World
Authors: Claudio O. Delang, Zhen Yuan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11505-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-11504-7Published: 18 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34985-5Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-11505-4Published: 07 November 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 230
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Management, Nature Conservation, Ecosystems, Sustainable Development, Forestry Management