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The Institutional Challenges of Payment for Ecosystem Service Program in China: A Review of the Effectiveness and Implementation of Sloping Land Conversion Program

Chen, Cheng; König, Hannes J.; Matzdorf, Bettina; Zhen, Lin - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 5, pp. 5564-5591

This study is an overview of the effectiveness and institutional challenges of China’s Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP). The SLCP is the Chinese government’s largest Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) program and one of the largest PES programs in the world. From an institutional...

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

Uchida, Emi; Rozelle, Scott; Xu, Jintao - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2007

This study evaluates the off-farm labor response of rural households participating in the Grain for Green program in … on average the Grain for Green program has a positive effect on off-farm labor participation. Importantly, however, we … Grain for Green program may be relaxing liquidity constraints for the participating households and that is one reason why …

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