Finding new strategies to rehabilitate grasslands in western China
The grasslands of western China ( ＞ 300m ha) are mildly to severely degraded and the millions of households dependent upon them are among the poorer groups in China.The problems of grassland degradation, need to improve incomes and to develop western China are key components of Government policy.Finding viable ways of rehabilitating grasslands that encourage change from those dependent upon livestock is a major challenge for research.This paper summarises the methodology used and general results to date from a collaborative farming systems project in Gansu and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, with Australian support, designed to identify the on‐farm changes for the sustainable development of grasslands (in a broad sense) and for household income improvement.A workshop held in conjunction with this International Grassland / Rangeland Congress presents the current results in more detail.
over‐grazing rehabilitation strategies income improvement farming systems management
D.R.Kemp Z.B.Nan J.P.Wu J.F.Yun Z.Xu
School of agriculturaLand Wine Science,Charles Sturt University,Orange NSWAustralia 2800 Grassland Ecological Research Institute,Lanzhou University,Lanzhou,Gansu,PRC Gansu Agricultural University,Lanzhou,Gansu,PRC Inner Mongolia Agricultural University,Hohhot,Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region,PRC Grassland esearchInstitute,Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science,Hohhot,Inner Mongolia Autonomous
国际会议
呼和浩特
英文
2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）