We examine land-use outcomes of perhaps the largest government-planned rural reforestation program in the history of humankind, China's "Grain for Green" (GFG) policy from 1999 to 2006. Specifically, we simulate household responses to the GFG policy in Western China's Shaanxi Province, a ...
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 million...
We examine land-use outcomes of perhaps the largest government-planned rural reforestation program in the history of humankind, China’s “Grain for Green” (GFG) policy from 1999 to 2006. Specifically, we simulate household responses to the GFG policy in Western China’s Shaanxi Province, a ...
Although the initial goal of the ''Grain for Green'' program was to control soil erosion on the Loess Plateau, it has been instrumental in increasing both the rate and overall quantity of C sequestered in the soil7,10. At present, the ''Grain for Green'' program is the first and ...
To alleviate the pressure on natural ecosystems and improve the fragile ecological situation, China implemented the "Grain-for-Green" (GFG) project in 1999. However, the evolutionary characteristics of the ecological security of the IMYRB in the first two decades of the 21st century ...
First phase of the grain for green (GFG) policy, one of the China鈥檚 forest policies, was implemented in the late 1990s and ended in 2012. The first phase of the GFG policy was successful from a macro perspective, although there were some failures. Based on these outcomes, the second ...
Since the Grain for Green (GFG) program was implemented in 1999, most steeply sloping farmlands in the Loess Plateau of China have been returned to forestland and grassland. To understand its impact on the food production, this study analyzed the spatiotemporal changes of food crop production (...
Since the Grain for Green(GFG)program was implemented in 1999,most steeply sloping farmlands in the Loess Plateau of China have been returned to forestland and grassland.To understand its impact on the food production,this study analyzed the spatiotemporal changes of food crop production(FCP)in ...
Grain for GreenReforestationMigrationChinaThis paper introduces the second phase of the Grain for Green. The first phase ran from 1999 to 2014, and the second phase started in 2015. The second phase of the GfG (GfG/2) addresses some problems of the first phase (GfG/1), in particular the...
The Government of China responded with a number of major environmental programs, the most expensive and influential of which, the Grain for Green (GfG) Program, was implemented widely from 1999. Under the GfG Programalso known as the Sloping Land Conversion or Conversion of Cropland to Forest ...