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[G-1.2.2 Assessment of Socio-Economic Factors Affecting Desertification and Land Degradation in China]

[Contact Person]

Masami Mizuno
Chief, Research Planning Division
Department of Research Planning and Coordination
National Research Institute of Agricultural Economics
2-2-1 Nishigahara, Kita-Ku, Tokyo 114 Japan
Phone +81-3-3910-3946, Fax +81-3-3940-0232
E-mail maxmizmizu@nriae.affre.go.jp

[Total Budget for FY1992-1994]

10,974,000Yen (FY1994 3,657,000 Yen)

[Abstract]

　This study aims at clarifying socio-economic factors affecting desertification and land degradation based on three case studies in China, namely Naiman Banner in Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, Yuanmou County in Yunnan Province and Lanxi city in Zhejiang Province. Socio-economic analyses were made to identify major factors that triggered and accelerated land deterioration in the surveyed areas. The result shows that among those factors are rural poverty, population increment at an alarming rate and environmentally-unconscious policy intervention. However, new policy climate finally arrived in late 1979 when the Reform and Opening Policy was introduced so that policies combating desertification became government's concern. It has, thus, been found that there are a few cases where careful policy execution coupled with enough financial means have brought out successful results in stabilizing local agricultural ecosystems. The policy implication of these findings is that central policy efforts with environmental concern and people's participation are instrumental to promote land utilization in conformity with resource conservation.

[Key Words]

Poverty, Population Increase, Environmental Concern, Appropriate Policy, Farmers' Participation