Ma Hua, Lu Yonglong, Xing Ying, He Guizhen, Sun Yamei
State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Environ Manage. 2009 Jun;43(6):1039-47. doi: 10.1007/s00267-009-9290-z. Epub 2009 Apr 2.
The Conversion of Cropland to Forest and Grassland Program (CCFG), which was initiated by the Chinese government in 1999, is a cropland retirement program with integrated objectives for ecological preservation and local development. The purpose of this article was to study the influencing factors of attitude and economic strategies in rural households toward the CCFG. Rural households' knowledge, attitude and economic strategies toward the CCFG were investigated through a questionnaire survey in Qira, China. Influencing factors of attitude and strategies of households were analyzed using a logit model technique. The analysis indicated that household's income level, environmental knowledge of the program, and program implementation were significant influencing factors in a household's attitude toward the CCFG, while major influencing factors of household strategies were their regional background and availability of income generation sources. Meaningful association was not found between attitude and strategy choices. Rich households had more strategy choices, while poor households were usually confined to low input strategies with uncertain income. To sustain their livelihood, the poor need extra assistances in marketing, loan granting, employment training, information, and technical services.
中国政府于1999年启动的退耕还林还草工程（CCFG），是一项具有生态保护和地方发展综合目标的耕地退耕计划。本文旨在研究农村家庭对CCFG的态度及经济策略的影响因素。通过在中国新疆维吾尔自治区喀什地区进行问卷调查，对农村家庭对CCFG的认知、态度和经济策略进行了调查。运用逻辑模型技术分析了家庭态度和策略的影响因素。分析表明，家庭收入水平、对该计划的环境认知以及计划实施情况是影响家庭对CCFG态度的重要因素，而家庭策略的主要影响因素是其区域背景和创收来源的可用性。在态度和策略选择之间未发现有意义的关联。富裕家庭有更多的策略选择，而贫困家庭通常局限于收入不确定的低投入策略。为维持生计，贫困人口在市场营销、贷款发放、就业培训、信息和技术服务方面需要额外的援助。
