Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Integrated Assessment for Changbaishan Area Hua
Ouyang Chunmei Wang
Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural
Resources research, Chinese Academy of
Sciences sdwangcm_at_hotmail.com
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Outline

• Review
• Household survey
• Analysis on the household
• survey data
• Next step
• Problem

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Review
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Outline

• Overview
• Household survey
• background
• process of household survey
• Analysis on the household
• survey data
• Next step
• Problem

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Period 10 years
Background
Area14.7 million ha.
large scale
Participator80 million
Investment 3372.25 hundred million
little or no systematic evaluation
Chinas reforestation
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How much carbon sequestration can be increased
by reforestation
How impact on the social, ecology and
economics
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Compensation policies formulated by the Chinas
government
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process of household (HH) survey
Household survey
It was the forestry sector that played a lead
role in the Grain for Green Program
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Household survey
This HH survey mainly focuses on social-economic
impacts on the farmers and the status impact on
the women of the program, I tried to make
analysis on suitability and sustainability of the
program. .
HH Survey Forms
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Distribution of HH survey
Household survey

• Chose townships according to the degree of
  support for Grain for Green
• more positive
• average positive
• less positive
• First HH survey
• Select 820HH/township households to survey
• population, land use, education and so on.

Dunhua city
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Outline

• Overview
• Household survey
• Analysis on the household
• survey data
• Next step
• Problem

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result

• The assessment on the Program by the farmers
• The land use change and other related changes
• Effect on the farmers income
• Effect on the womens status
• Effect on the minoritys benefit

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result

• The assessment on the Program by the farmers
• The land use change and other related changes
• Effect on the farmers income
• Effect on the womens status
• Effect on the minoritys benefit

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result
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result
before reforestation, the percentage of land
coved Dunhua county is the main place to export
soybean with the percentage of 90.
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• The farmers cropland becomes 0.33ha,
• comparing the area 0.66ha before the Program.
• 10 farmers converted all their farmland to
  forest.
• What will they live on after the Program subsidy
  ends?

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result

• The assessment on the Program by the farmers
• The land use change and other related changes
• Effect on the farmers income
• Effect on the womens status
• Effect on the minoritys benefit

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result

• The farmers income influences the
  sustainability of the program.
• Sustainability implies that the participating
  farmers will be able to
• find alternative income sources, including
  the harvest from the trees
• on the Grain for Green plots, so that the
  income of the household can
• remain high even when they no longer receive
  program subsidies.

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result

• The assessment on the Program by the farmers
• The land use change and other related changes
• Effect on the farmers income
• Effect on the womens status
• Effect on the minoritys benefit

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result
Table 2 The serial of the importance ranged by
the farmers themselves
During the household survey, a quarter of the
farmers are women.
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result
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Outline

• Overview
• Household survey
• Analysis on the household
• survey data
• Problem
• Next step

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Problem

• The study areas are not at the same place, so I
  can not get any data from other groups.
• I need the newest remote sensing image to compare
  the change of land use.
• The potential of carbon sequestration of
  different reforestation types.
• The carbon storage in soil.

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Outline

• Overview
• Household survey
• Analysis on the household
• survey data
• Problem
• Next step

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Next step