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Farmers' Willingness to Participate in the Next-Stage Grain-for-Green Project in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China.
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Environmental management [Environ Manage] 2015 Aug; Vol. 56 (2), pp. 505-18. Date of Electronic Publication: 2015 Apr 24. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- The policy implications for success in the next-stage Grain-for-Green Project (GFGP) in China are analyzed from the perspectives of farmers' willingness. The ecological protection belt of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area was chosen as the case study area, where 1207 valid questionnaire surveys based on participatory rural appraisal were collected in 2012. Our study found that farmers with lower levels of education, older age, and higher livelihood dependency on farmland were more prone to reclamation if the compensation ended. Females and non-migrants were more reluctant to participate in the next GFGP than others. Nevertheless, traditional farming was no longer a preferred livelihood by all respondents. The majority of respondents (74.4%) wished to be liberated from the low-income farmland work through the next GFGP, and half of them (50.6%) hoped to get non-cash compensation. The Willingness to Accept (WTA) values of the next GFGP showed significant social heterogeneity and regional difference, with an average of annual RMB¥16,665 ha(-1), about 4.5 times the local compensation standard in 2000. By revealing some limitations of the uniform nationwide compensation standard system and the single payment form in adapting to evolving socioeconomic conditions, our study highlighted the importance of developing a region-based compensation standard system, integrating the next GFGP into regional sustainable development organically by more comprehensive alternative policy, and bonding a vertical partnership between the local community and the nation. Our study revealed some key elements for success in the future design of restoration projects in China.
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- Adult
Agriculture economics
China
Environmental Policy
Female
Financial Support
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Rural Population
Socioeconomic Factors
Surveys and Questionnaires
Agriculture methods
Conservation of Natural Resources economics
Conservation of Natural Resources methods
Edible Grain growth & development
Farmers
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1432-1009
- Volume :
- 56
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Environmental management
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 25907281
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-015-0505-1