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	Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Cropland Conversion in Response to the "Grain for Green Project" in China's Loess Hilly Region of Yanchuan County
	Wang J. Y. ; Liu Y. S. ; Liu Z. G.
	2013
关键词	cropland conversion spatio-temporal GGP effects the Loess Plateau China conservation set-aside land-cover food security program accuracy plateau drivers impacts policy images
英文摘要	To prevent environmental degradation, China's central government launched the "Grain for Green Project" (GGP) in 1999. Since its beginning, the effects and influences of the GGP have been hotly debated among domestic and international scholars and policymakers. This paper is taking the County of Yanchuan in the Loess Plateau as a case study, examines the spatio-temporal patterns of cropland conversion in response to the GGP. This research is methodologically based on remote sensing (RS) and geographic information systems (GIS), and also employs personal interviews with local government officials and farmers. The results show that land use/cover patterns in Yanchuan County have changed dramatically after the implementation of GGP. Cropland has decreased remarkably, while orchard land and sparse forest has increased significantly: 23.84% of cropland was converted to orchard, and 22.25% to sparse forest. Simultaneously, the landscape has become more fragmented but also more diversified, forestland has become more dominant. A total of 61.19% of the total converted cropland was on slopes greater than 15 degrees, 64.85% of which was lower-grade land. The converted cropland is mostly located in more accessible areas for convenient management. Partially affected by farmers' self-willingness, sloping cropland was preferred to orchard (economic forest), and some gentle slope (less than 15 degrees) or higher-grade cropland were involved in the GGP. To maintain and reinforce the achievements of the GGP and further contribute to the GGP's sustainability and rural development, the paper recommends that the Chinese government should build a continuous compensation mechanism for the households who lost cropland for the GGP while improving the productivity of flat cropland.
出处	Remote Sensing
卷	5
期	11
页	5642-5661
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
ISSN号	2072-4292
内容类型	SCI/SSCI论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/30204]
专题	地理科学与资源研究所_历年回溯文献
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang J. Y.,Liu Y. S.,Liu Z. G.. Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Cropland Conversion in Response to the "Grain for Green Project" in China's Loess Hilly Region of Yanchuan County. 2013.

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