Alleviating poverty and managing natural resources through integrated crop‐livestock systems research in western China

摘要：

Traditional subsistence farming systems on the Loess Plateau of Gansu Province have resulted in widespread resource degradation and endemic poverty ( Nolan et al., 2008 ).The Chinese government has responded to these challenges with the.Grain for Green policy that encourages farmers to replace sloping cropping land with perennial forages (Wang et al., 2007).Local government authorities in eastern Gansu (Qingyang City) have developed a series of rural development programs that build on the.Grain for Green policy and that are designed to alleviate poverty and improve management of natural resources.One such development program is the subsidised planting of lucerne ( Medicago sativ a) on sloping and non‐arable land to increase forage production for pen‐feeding to sheep and goats under a cut and carry system.

关键词： forage agronomy livestock nutrition resource‐use efficiency household livelihoods

作者: WD Bellotti ZB Nan YY Shen FJ Hou S Pain Li Lihua Wang Xiaoyan

作者单位: School of Agriculture,Food & W ine,University of Adelaide,South Australia,Australia. College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology,Lanzhou University,Gansu,China.

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2008世界草地与草原大会

会议地点: 呼和浩特

会议语种:英文

在线出版日期: 2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）