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Observations conducted on the rangelands on the eastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (found in He'nan County and Zeku County in southeast Qinghai) indicate that the following conditions result in heavy snowfall and snow disasters. The first factor to consider is the height of the foliage. If the...
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promoting Party and state policies, influencing public opinion among farmers and herdsmen, expanding the channels they can use … their material living standards and cultural life. This chapter also found that the cultural life of farmers and herdsmen …
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of farmers and herdsmen participating in market activities. Moreover, examples of their participation can be found from a …, allowing Tibetan farmers and herdsmen to trade more extensively. However, due to the small size of the local market, all … products sold by farmers and herdsmen are at the bottom of the industrial chain and thus, are susceptible to large price …
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Having conducted field research on the ecological resettlement of Tibetan villages in Qinghai, this chapter found that ecological re-settlers face significant risks of impoverishment in host communities, as they can no longer work and live in ways that they are used to, and once they join these...
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The Tibetan pastoral area in southern Qinghai is often subjected to snow disasters which can severely damage the income of herders' and can bring about other related hazards. The breaking down of the relationship between snow disasters and poverty constitutes an important part of the local...
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farmers and herders, who are adapting their conventional rational behavior to a market environment. They are making the most … the capacity of pasture lands, a rising cost of living and increased competition in migrant work, farmers and herders have …
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In the Tibetan regions, there are already some systems in place to help the poor and support the elderly in local villages and tribes. And with the rural social security system in the process of being implemented across the country, social aid has begun to take on an even more important role...
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China has launched an all-out campaign to eradicate “basic and semi-illiteracy”, and achieve “basic universal access to compulsory education” (two basics). In Diqing Prefecture found in the Yunnan Province and Yushu and Guoluo Prefectures in Qinghai, where we undertook our survey, this...
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Antenatal care can help children from poor families get a good start to their lives and thus avoid the transmission of intergenerational poverty. Therefore, this chapter argues that focusing on the provision of antenatal care for children from poor families is the right place to start if your...
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This chapter probes into the tricholoma matsutake industry by applying value chain analysis. The author argues that the Tibetans found in the areas that produce tricholoma matsutake receive an extremely small portion of the profits from the global market. This is not only disadvantageous to the...
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