The Second Phase of the Grain for Green Program: Adapting the Largest Reforestation Program in the World to the New Conditions in Rural China

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio O. Delang
Keyword(s):  
Rural China ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Grain For Green ◽  
Grain For Green Program ◽  
The World ◽  
Reforestation Program

The effects of China’s Grain for Green program on migration and remittance

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Claudio O. Delang
Keyword(s):  
Land Ownership ◽  
Household Size ◽  
Grain For Green ◽  
Chongqing Municipality ◽  
Several Variables ◽  
Grain For Green Program ◽  
The World ◽  
Household Members ◽  
Reforestation Program ◽  
Household Incomes

<p>The Grain for Green (GfG) is the largest reforestation program of the world. It involved payments to farmers to convert their marginal farmland. Many farmers decided to migrate. This paper looks at some of the household features associated with migration by GfG-participants, and the importance of remittances to those who remained behind. Fieldwork for this research was carried out in Pengshui County in Chongqing Municipality. Several variables affect migration, including education, land ownership and household size. For most households, remittances consist of over 90 percent of all household incomes, but the amount remitted tends to level off when it reaches a certain size, regardless of the number of household members who migrated.</p>

scholarly journals The effects of China’s Grain for Green program on migration and remittance

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Claudio O. Delang
Keyword(s):  
Land Ownership ◽  
Household Size ◽  
Grain For Green ◽  
Chongqing Municipality ◽  
Several Variables ◽  
Grain For Green Program ◽  
The World ◽  
Household Members ◽  
Reforestation Program ◽  
Household Incomes

<p>The Grain for Green (GfG) is the largest reforestation program of the world. It involved payments to farmers to convert their marginal farmland. Many farmers decided to migrate. This paper looks at some of the household features associated with migration by GfG-participants, and the importance of remittances to those who remained behind. Fieldwork for this research was carried out in Pengshui County in Chongqing Municipality. Several variables affect migration, including education, land ownership and household size. For most households, remittances consist of over 90 percent of all household incomes, but the amount remitted tends to level off when it reaches a certain size, regardless of the number of household members who migrated.</p>

scholarly journals Distinguishing ecological outcomes of pathways in Grain for Green Program in the subtropical areas of China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sijing Qiu ◽  
Jian Peng
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Gross Primary Production ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Guizhou Province ◽  
Grain For Green ◽  
Grain For Green Program ◽  
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ◽  
Reforestation Program

Abstract Effective forestation policies are urgently required across the globe under the initiative of UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Rather than simply planting trees, such initiatives involve complex components of societal and biophysical systems. However, the underlying pathways by which forestation influences the ecological outcomes are not well understood, especially lacking a unified quantification framework. In this study, such a framework was developed to reveal the pathways in which reforestation programs influenced ecological outcomes through identifying the linkages among reforestation efforts, societal changes, land system changes, and ecological outcomes. The framework was applied in the reforestation program of Grain for Green Program (GFGP), to explore that how the GFGP influenced vegetation dynamics and ecosystem functioning in Guizhou Province of China through direct and indirect pathways. Two independent remote-sensing-based indicators: the enhanced vegetation index (EVI), derived from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), and gross primary production (GPP), obtained from the Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) fine resolution dataset GOSIF, were combined with inventory data and land use maps to detect changes in social and ecological outcomes. Using the Structural Equation Model (SEM) to perform the framework, the results showed that the GFGP positively contributed to the increasing greenness and GPP of the study area through the direct conservation pathway. Although the implementation of GFGP encouraged outmigration and led to a decrease in farmland area, GFGP on greenness and GPP showed negative indirect effects because of the difficulty of reforestation during land-use conversion from farmland to forest land. This study revealed divergent impacts of the reforestation program through multiple pathways, which could provide valuable information for other parts of the globe to design ecological restoration policies more precisely.

scholarly journals Trade-Offs Analysis of Ecosystem Services for the Grain for Green Program: Informing Reforestation Decisions in a Mountainous Headwater Region, Northeast China

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 4762
Author(s):  
Xiufen Li ◽  
Yichen Tian ◽  
Tian Gao ◽  
Lei Jin ◽  
Shuangtian Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Water Purification ◽  
Forest Restoration ◽  
Flood Mitigation ◽  
Grain For Green ◽  
Grain For Green Program ◽  
Regulating Services ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Soil Retention ◽  
Reforestation Program

The effects of forest restoration on ecosystem services and their trade-offs are increasingly discussed by environmental managers and ecologists, but few demonstrations have analyzed ecosystem service trade-offs with a view to informing afforestation choices. Here, we examined how the Grain for Green Program (GGP), an ambitious reforestation program in China, affected ecosystem services. We quantified regulating services and provisioning service in the potential scenarios, which were developed to improve ecosystem services better. The results indicated the GGP drove 14.5% of land-use/land-cover from 2000 to 2015, and all the regulating services increased. Prioritizing reforestations in steep-sloped and riparian farmlands can promote flood mitigation, water purification, and soil retention services by 62.7%, 25.5%, and 216.1% as compared with 2015 levels, respectively, suggesting that the improvements strongly depend on afforestation locations. Driven by the new GGP policy, a high proportion of economic forest increased provisioning service (272.2%), but at the expense of decreases in soil retention (−25.1%), flood mitigation (−11.4%), water purification (−36.6%), and carbon storage (−48.5%). We identified a suitable scenario that would reduce the trade-offs, which associated with afforestation types and their spatial allocation. Identifying priority areas of afforestation types can inform the GGP policy to assure sustainable and broader benefits.

scholarly journals The right to appeal on criminal procedure under international acts and jurisprudence

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
MSc. Vilard Bytyqi
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Advanced Level ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
Court Of First Instance ◽  
Comparative Description ◽  
Procedural Aspect

The right to appeal, respectively the right on complaint as per our legal vocabulary, constitutes the basic trunk of the second phase of court decisions in a certain procedure, in particular the criminal proceedings.The aim of this paper is to emphasize the main notions of appeal, but also in other aspects through the comparative description it aims to bring more clarity in differences and similarities that exist in between the appeal which is used in our criminal proceedings and the appeal which is used in the criminal proceedings that take place in the supranational courts. It is known that in courts which consist of international elements, the appeal is positioned in a more advanced level, due to the fact that there are grounds of suspicion used over every element that could be used in any national criminal proceedings.Overall, in any place of the world, the appeal has the goal to remedy court decisions brought by the court of first instance, while, in the procedural aspect it has more or less differences depending on the regulations of criminal procedures of that state. Such difference due to the diversity of the legal systems today are also accepted as the universal legal value, since establishment of international tribunals provides the best practice in this field. 

scholarly journals Image Restoration Strategies for the (mis-) handling of COVID – 19 Pandemic in Greece

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 56-59
Author(s):  
Neofytos Aspriadis
Keyword(s):  
Image Restoration ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Economic Pressure ◽  
Response Strategies ◽  
The World ◽  
Greek Government ◽  
Restoration Strategies ◽  
And Control ◽  
Of Greece

During the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak all countries around the world used several kinds of response strategies to protect public health and control the outbreak. The main aim was to stop the disease from spreading into the community and put a pressure on the health system of the countries. However, severe measures like lockdown of cities and countries brought side-crises like economic pressure on the individuals, corporations and even the state itself. Although the Greek Government was considered to have managed the first phase of the crisis in March effectively, during the aftermath of the first phase, the complete opening of the economy and tourism, the lowering of measures leaded to the increase of new cases. The increased number of cases together with the late imposition of a new lockdown, leaded to the perception of a governmental failure. This perception mobilized direct or indirect image restoration strategies by officials of the Greek Government to maintain the positive image of their handling despite the general perceptions. This paper explores the image restoration strategies used by the prime minister of Greece for the handlings of the second phase of the pandemic in Greece. The methodology used is discourse analysis with the tools of Image Restoration Strategies by Benoit (1995) from October till December 2020.

scholarly journals From Digital Divide to Social Inclusion: A Tale of Mobile Platform Empowerment in Rural Areas

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 2424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisha Ye ◽  
Huiqin Yang
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Mobile Platform ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Practical Implications

The digital divide in rural areas is an important social issue, especially in developing countries. Although Internet and broadband penetration have increased in the world generally, there are many obstacles for rural China to get access to ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and its services. The mobile platform is regarded as a novel and effective tool to reduce the digital divide. Based on a case of one mobile platform, namely WeCountry in Chinese rural areas, this study illustrates how a mobile platform bridges the digital divide and helps rural areas achieve social inclusion. Results show that: (1) the mobile platform mainly acts on the digital capability divide elimination, and it has to guide and increase users’ usage capability; (2) the mobile platform can empower villagers in structural, psychological, and resource dimensions, achieving political inclusion, social participation inclusion, and economic inclusion; (3) platform providers and government are key organizations during the divide elimination process. This paper concludes with theoretical and practical implications.

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