Grain for Green
Cost-Effectiveness and Sustainability of China's Conservation Set-Aside Program
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23366239 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emi Uchida (0000-0001-6818-2849), Jintao Xu (0000-0001-5588-2942), Scott Rozelle (0000-0001-5053-0243) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 247-264 |
| Publication date | 2005-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Land Economics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-7639 • E-ISSN: 1543-8325 |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3368/le.81.2.247 |
| OpenAlex | W1874616974 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 76 |
Since 1999, China has pursued Grain for Green, an ambitious conservation set-aside program to prevent soil erosion. This paper evaluates its cost-effectiveness and sustainability. The results indicate that while the program has made a clear attempt to retire plots that are susceptible to soil erosion, there is room for better targeting. The government also may be able to generate fiscal savings if the payments more accurately reflect the differences in the opportunity costs of each plot. The study finds that some farmers may reconvert the land back to cultivation after program ends. (JEL Q23, H43)
Agricultural economics · Agroforestry · Aside · Business · China · Economics · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Investment (military) · Microeconomics · Natural resource economics · Opportunity cost · Payment · Set-aside · Soil conservation · Sustainability · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology · Economic and Environmental Valuation · Environmental Science · Finance · Land Rights and Reforms
Conservation leads to less income for rural residents? Evidence from a comparison of western and eastern China
Viable Reserve Networks Arise From Individual Landholder Responses To Conservation Incentives
Understanding the Relationships between Landscape Eco-Security and Multifunctionality in Cropland
Are the poor benefiting from China's land conservation program?
Rethinking China's domestic agriculture support measures under WTO protocols
Les politiques de conservation de la forêt [Directives nationales et mise en œuvre locale dans le nord du Sichuan]
Arable land requirements based on food consumption patterns
An Investigation of Chinese Attitudes toward the Environment
Forest Conservation and Slippage
Voluntary' Poverty Alleviation Resettlement in China
Ecological and socioeconomic effects of China's policies for ecosystem services
Conservation Payments, Liquidity Constraints, and Off‐Farm Labor
Linking social norms to efficient conservation investment in payments for ecosystem services
The Nature and Value of Ecosystem Services
Water quality trends under rapid agricultural expansion and enhanced in-stream interception in a hilly watershed of Eastern China
Herders’ willingness to accept versus the public sector’s willingness to pay for grassland restoration in the Xilingol League of Inner Mongolia, China
Spatially Explicit Landscape-Level Ecological Risks Induced by Land Use and Land Cover Change in a National Ecologically Representative Region in China
Evaluation of the Ecological Effects of Ecological Restoration Programs
Impact of the Expiration of the SLCP Subsidy on Farmers’ Income and Subjective Well-Being
Understanding the poverty reduction effect of soil and water conservation technology
Satellite remote sensing analysis to monitor revegetation in the Yangtze River basin, China
Spatially optimized cropland distribution promotes sustainable farming and vegetation restoration in mountainous regions
Does farmland conversion improve or impair household livelihood in smallholder agriculture system? A case study of Grain for Green project impacts in China’s Loess Plateau
Adaptation science and policy in China's agricultural sector
Regional land-use allocation using a coupled MAS and GA model
Flow and structural effects in asymmetric forest transitions under climate and economic pressure
Cost-effective compensation payments
Effect of Key Priority Forestry Programs on off-farm employment
Reformulating China's ecological restoration policies
Evaluation of economic and social impacts of the sloping land conversion program
Wood trade responses to ecological rehabilitation program
Assessing the decadal impact of China's sloping land conversion program on household income under enrollment and earning differentiation
Designing and implementing payments for ecosystem services programs
Sustainability of Forests Created by China's Sloping Land Conversion Program
Volunteer and satisfied? Rural households' participation in a payments for environmental services programme in Inner Mongolia
Estimating non-market environmental benefits of the Conversion of Cropland to Forest and Grassland Program
Payments for environmental services and contested neoliberalisation in developing countries
An exploration of livestock-development policies in western China
Grain for Green versus Grain
Farmer Participatory Research and Soil Conservation in Southeast Asian Cassava Systems
How Sustainable are Sustainable Development Programs? The Case of the Sloping Land Conversion Program in China
Urbanization’s mediator
How socioeconomic and institutional conditions at the household level shape the environmental effectiveness of governmental payments for ecosystem services program
How participation in collective action shapes income and equity in large-scale ecological restoration
Technical efficiency analysis of the conversion of cropland to forestland program in Jiangxi, Shaanxi, and Sichuan
A Systematic Review of Empirical Research on Payment of Ecosystem Services and Farm Household Income in China
China's sloping land conversion program
Impacts of the Natural Forest Conservation Program on the livelihoods of residents of Northwestern China
Ecological restoration programs and payments for ecosystem services as integrated biophysical and socioeconomic processes—China's experience as an example
Mechanisms behind concurrent payments for ecosystem services in a Chinese nature reserve
Evaluating the Evaluated Socioeconomic Impacts of China's Sloping Land Conversion Program
Does household composition matter? The impact of the Grain for Green Program on rural livelihoods in China
Responses to climate change and farming policies by rural communities in northern China
Managing China's pastoral lands
How adjustments in land use patterns contribute to drought risk adaptation in a changing climate—A case study in China
Implications for development of grain-for-green policy based on cropland suitability evaluation in desertification-affected north China
Normative, livelihood, and demographic influences on enrollment in a payment for ecosystem services program
Water for forests to restore environmental services and alleviate poverty in Vietnam
Has the Sloping Land Conversion Program in China impacted the income and employment of rural households
How to achieve fairness in payments for ecosystem services? Insights from agrobiodiversity conservation auctions
Household-level effects of China's Sloping Land Conversion Program under price and policy shifts
Evaluation and simulation of the impact of land use change on ecosystem services trade-offs in ecological restoration areas, China
Attitudes of farmers in China's northern Shaanxi Province towards the land-use changes required under the Grain for Green Project, and implications for the project's success
Impact of the Sloping Land Conversion Program on rural household income
Effects of China’s payment for ecosystem services programs on cropland abandonment
Targeted poverty alleviation and land policy innovation
Environmental resettlement and social dis/re-articulation in Inner Mongolia, China
Resilience building of rural livelihoods in PES programmes
Feedback effect of crop raiding in payments for ecosystem services
Multilevel analysis of factors affecting participants’ land reconversion willingness after the Grain for Green Program
Effects of Natural Disasters on Conservation Policies
Could ecological restoration reduce income inequality? An analysis of 290 Chinese prefecture-level cities
Inclusive Conservation or Controlled Displacement? Reassessing Community Participation in China’s Ecological Migration Programmes
Social-Ecological Impacts of Concurrent Reservoir Inundation and Reforestation in the Three Gorges Region of China
Assessment of China’s Poor County Program
Payments for ecological restoration and internal migration in China
| Unique citing works | 76 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,62 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 66 |