Uchida, Emi; Xu, Jintao; Rozelle, Scott - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2003
Since 1999, China has pursued one of the most ambitious conservation set-aside program's, known as Grain for Green. The overall goal of our paper is to analyze this program's cost-effectiveness and sustainability. We find that while the program has made a clear attempt to retire land that has...