Grain-for-green policy and its impacts on grain supply in West China

By Zhi-ming Feng, Yanzhao Yang, Yaoqi Zhang, Pengtao Zhang, Yiqing Li. 2005

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Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science

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Future cereal production in China: The interaction of climate change, water availability and socio-economic scenarios (2009, background): “Concern about land degradation resulted in the ‘Grain-for-Green’ Programme in 1998, intended to convert marginal arable land to grasslands and forest (Feng et al., 2005) which became a significant regional source of arable land loss.”
Farmland Conversion Decreases Regional and National Land Quality in China (2017, background): “which aims to return steeply sloping farmland to forest or grassland (Feng et al., 2005; Xu et al., 2006; Wen et al., 2015), and the Farmland Requisition-Compensation Balance Policy (FRCBP), which focuses on offsetting losses in farmland area to construction with gains in new farmland.”
Accelerated restructuring in rural China fueled by 'increasing vs. decreasing balance' land-use policy for dealing with hollowed villages (2012, background): “However, identifying and for afforestation is difficult given constraints on China’s rural and (Feng et al., 2005; Long et al., 2006), and with the potential o increase available rural land by 13%, the ‘increasing vs. decreasng balance’ land-use policy could make a major contribution to reeing land…”
Implications for development of grain-for-green policy based on cropland suitability evaluation in desertification-affected north China (2007, background): “The grain-for-green project is the most renowned activity, which is usually explained as ‘‘returning steep cropland into forests’’ (Feng et al., 2005; Long et al., 2006).”
Ecological and socioeconomic effects of China's policies for ecosystem services (2008, background): “In addition, 300 yuan/ha per year for miscellaneous expenses and a one-time subsidy of 750 yuan/ha for seeds or seedlings are provided (34, 35).”
Grain for Green versus Grain : Conflict between Food Security and Conservation Set-Aside in China (2006, background): “These observations are consistent with Feng et al. (2005) who found that the yields are significantly lower for sloped cultivated land in seven regions in China.”
How sustainable are sustainable development programs? The case of the sloping land conversion program in China. (2009, background): “More specifically, the oversupply of on-farm labor and the inaccessibility to off-farm labor market opportunities have been pointed out as major driving factors for both rural poverty and the cultivation of marginal, low yield, and highly sloped lands (Feng et al., 2004; Xu & Cao, 2002).”
Relaxing rural constraints: a ‘win-win’ policy for poverty and environment in China? (2010, background): “…Jin (2002, 2003) point to failures in the market for land as the cause of ine¢ cient agricultural practices in a number of provinces of China, while Feng et al (2004) highlight limited o¤-farm opportunities and grain shortages as the main motivation for the cultivation of marginal, highly sloped…”
Impact of China's Large-Scale Ecological Restoration Program on the Environment and Society in Arid and Semiarid Areas of China: Achievements, Problems, Synthesis, and Applications (2011, methodology): “Using a multiobjective programming model (Feng et al., 2005) to simulate the production and price effects of the program revealed that the GGP has had an even smaller effect on China’s grain production (2–3”