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WORLD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 34, Issue 1, Pages 130-148Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2005.08.002
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food security; conservation set-aside program; grain for green; China; Asia
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This paper examines the conflict that may exist between conservation and food security. In China, policymakers and scholars are debating whether or not conservation set-aside programs threaten food security. To address the debate, we describe China's conservation set-aside program known as Grain for Green and compare it with similar programs outside of China. We then use data that we collected to measure the production and price impacts of the program on China's grain economy since 1999. Our simulations find that Grain for Green has only a small effect on China's grain production and almost no effect on prices or food imports. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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