China’s Sloping Land Conversion Program: Does Expansion Equal Success?

Submitted by admin on
EfD Authors:

This paper uses a 2003 household survey to examine implementation and impacts of China's Sloping Land Conversion Program. We find that land targeting has been strongly influenced by program goals, but that mistargeting also occurred.

Forestry

Conservation Payments, Liquidity Constraints and Off-Farm Labor: Impact of the Grain for Green Program on Rural Households in China

Submitted by admin on

This study evaluates the labor response of rural households participating in the Grain-for-Green program in China, the largest payments for ecosystem services program in the developing world.

Agriculture

Relaxing Rural Constraints: A win-win policy for environment and poverty in China?

Submitted by admin on

The link between institutional and market failures, rural poverty and environmental degradation suggests a ‘win-win’ policy intervention: relax local ‘constraints’ and achieve poverty alleviation and environmental goals.

Policy Design