Grain for green: Cost-effectiveness and sustainability of China's conservation set-aside program

Land Economics

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 247-264

  Uchida, Emi ^a   Xu, Jintao ^b   Rozelle, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EROSION CONTROL; SET-ASIDE;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD;

EID: 21444453757     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.81.2.247     Document Type: Article

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