China’s Conversion of Cropland to Forests Program was launched in 1998 as a response to devastating floods. After an investment of more than USD 42 billion, it is now the world’s largest afforestation-based eco-compensation program.
Come to this event for a systematic review of English and Chinese-language literature on the program’s socioeconomic and environmental impacts, and join the discussion on how this program can inform similar efforts around the world.
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- The contribution of bamboo to household income and rural livelihoods in a poor and mountainous county in Guangxi, China
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