Title:	China’s Grain for Green Program
Authors:	Yuan, Zhen
Keywords:	Program
Issue Date:	2015
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	China has always had a problem of inadequate supply, low quality, and uneven geographic distribution of forest resources. However, the second half of the twentieth century saw the greatest deforestation in the country’s history, as the rapid increase in the nation’s population, coupled with rapid economic development, resulted in enormous consumption of forest resources. Forest coverage decreased from 30–40 % in 1949 to about 10 % in the late 1990s. By the end of the twentieth century, while China’s population accounted for 22 % of the world’s population, the forest area in China was only taking up 4.1 % of the world’s land mass, and the stocking volume was merely 2.9 % of the world’s total (Lei 2002). This was clearly not suffi cient to meet the production and livelihood needs of the country. However, even more pressing were the environmental problems that decades of deforestation had created.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/58006
ISBN:	978-3-319-11505-4
Appears in Collections:	Rural Development Studies

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