China’s Grain for Green Program: A Review of the Largest Ecological Restoration and Rural Development Program in the World
By Claudio O. Delang and Zhen Yuan Springer, 2015 Chapter 7
This chapter looks at household attitudes and engagement. In most places not all those who joined the program claim that they did so voluntarily, though many farmers were willing to convert their least productive land, especially when they had a surplus, and their remaining land was sufficient to grow enough food for subsistence. On the other hand, most researchers found that the Grain for Green is now a very popular program, since the funds are rather generous and the payments regular, and there is a visible improvement in the ecological conditions of the areas where it has been implemented.
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