Kelly, Peter; Huo, Xuexi - In: World Development 48 (2013) C, pp. 156-169
China’s Sloping Land Conversion Program pays more than 32 million households to plant trees on highly erodible cropland, and has effected major land-use changes. Farmers retire land indefinitely but receive time-limited subsidies, after which they, in principle, enter nonfarm employment. We...