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- Title
Rural Households’ Attitude and Economic Strategies Toward the Conversion of Cropland to Forest and Grassland Program (CCFG): A Case Study in Qira, China.
- Authors
Hua Ma; Yonglong Lu; Ying Xing; Guizhen He; Yamei Sun
- Abstract
The Conversion of Cropland to Forest and Grassland Program (CCFG), which was initiated by the Chinese government in 1999, is a cropland retirement program with integrated objectives for ecological preservation and local development. The purpose of this article was to study the influencing factors of attitude and economic strategies in rural households toward the CCFG. Rural households’ knowledge, attitude and economic strategies toward the CCFG were investigated through a questionnaire survey in Qira, China. Influencing factors of attitude and strategies of households were analyzed using a logit model technique. The analysis indicated that household’s income level, environmental knowledge of the program, and program implementation were significant influencing factors in a household’s attitude toward the CCFG, while major influencing factors of household strategies were their regional background and availability of income generation sources. Meaningful association was not found between attitude and strategy choices. Rich households had more strategy choices, while poor households were usually confined to low input strategies with uncertain income. To sustain their livelihood, the poor need extra assistances in marketing, loan granting, employment training, information, and technical services.
- Subjects
CHINA; AGRICULTURAL policy; FARMS; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; VEGETATION &; climate; PUBLIC investments
- Publication
Environmental Management, 2009, Vol 43, Issue 6, p1039
- ISSN
0364-152X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00267-009-9290-z