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Vol. 077: Mei, Xiaodong: Soil Conservation and Sustainable Land Use in Inner Mongolia, China


Serious soil degradation has great social, economic and environmental impacts, undermining the sustainable development of Inner Mongolia. The conflicts between enormous soil conservation task and limited government budget require soil conservation projects to be implemented in a cost-effective way. But phenomenon such as abandon of soil conservation practices after project term and low voluntary adoption rate have been often observed. The study focuses on the soil conservation measures of converting steep cropland by tree and/or grass planting. This book conducts an economic evaluation of the introduced soil conservation measures to find out their on-site benefits at the farm household level. The profitability of soil conservation measures from farmers’ perspective is a necessary condition for the adoption, but is not sufficient. An adoption model is then developed to examine the main economic, institutional, social and physical factors that affect farm households’ adoption decisions. To promote the revegetation in Inner Mongolia, cautiously designed subsidies for tree planting might be needed for poor farmers and where the land potential is low. But removal of the institutional disincentives and using enabling incentives will have greater and long-term effect.


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Farming & Rural systems Economics Vol. 77

ISSN 1616-9808
2006; X +130 pp., 21 x 14,8 cm; paper

28.00 EUR
Artikelnr.: 978-3-8236-1480-7
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