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

This book provides a comprehensive review of Grain for Green, China's nationwide program which pays farmers to revert sloping or marginal farm land to trees or grass. The program aims to improve the ecological conditions of much of China, and the socioeconomic circumstances of hundreds of millions of people. GfG is the largest reforestation, ecological restoration, and rural development initiative in history, combining the biggest investment, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319115049
• ISBN13: 9783319115047
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"