With the deepening of the national urban and rural development strategy and the development of urban and rural integration, all levels of government are committed to narrowing the gap between rural and urban subsisten...With the deepening of the national urban and rural development strategy and the development of urban and rural integration, all levels of government are committed to narrowing the gap between rural and urban subsistence allowances. However, the inherent urban and rural differences and path dependence determines the integration of urban and rural low-cost integration is far from the standard can be achieved, the institutional environment and the operating environment are not in the same starting line of the facts, determines the ＂integration＂ will need to go through a long period of time Time of urban and rural development can be gradually achieved. At present, China＇s widespread implementation of the distinction between urban and rural residents minimum riving security system, not only difficult to play its due security ftmction, but further exacerbated the vicious cycle of dual society, the economic and social development is extremely unfavorable.展开更多
The Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System(GIAHS)has been established by FAO to protect valuable agricultural systems that are rich in biodiversity and home to indigenous knowledge,technology and cultural val...The Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System(GIAHS)has been established by FAO to protect valuable agricultural systems that are rich in biodiversity and home to indigenous knowledge,technology and cultural values.GIAHS has been accepted by many countries as a tool to maintain traditional agrosystems as“living heritage”.This paper examined the Xinghua Duotian agrosystem in eastern China to explore whether the GIAHS programme is an effective instrument for top-down implementation of conservation policies initiated by the government.An intensive social survey using a questionnaire was conducted in the core conservation area to examine farmers’understanding of the agrosystem and their willingness to conserve it.Statistical analyses including factor analysis,a linear model,a logit model and an optimal scale model were used to reveal farmers’perception of GIAHS and the factors that impact their willingness to conserve.Results show that the agrosystem faces challenges of aging and population loss.Farmers were not very familiar with GIAHS.They did not link GIAHS to the agrosystem because they generally understood GIAHS as a title meant to bring economic benefits,although they also thought the agrosystem had non-economic values worth conserving.Because farmers were not sure about the economic outcomes of the GIAHS programme,they thought the government,not them,should take the main role in conservation.Therefore,GIAHS as a tool to encourage farmers to become active in conservation does not seem very effective.It will not become so until it truly facilitates the transformation of non-economic values to economic values in the agrosystem.We suggested that the concepts of GIAHS should be matched to farmers’perceptions to provide farmers with conservation incentives.展开更多
文摘With the deepening of the national urban and rural development strategy and the development of urban and rural integration, all levels of government are committed to narrowing the gap between rural and urban subsistence allowances. However, the inherent urban and rural differences and path dependence determines the integration of urban and rural low-cost integration is far from the standard can be achieved, the institutional environment and the operating environment are not in the same starting line of the facts, determines the ＂integration＂ will need to go through a long period of time Time of urban and rural development can be gradually achieved. At present, China＇s widespread implementation of the distinction between urban and rural residents minimum riving security system, not only difficult to play its due security ftmction, but further exacerbated the vicious cycle of dual society, the economic and social development is extremely unfavorable.
基金The National Key Research and Development Plan of China(2017YFC0506404)Xinghua Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau(Evaluation of the economic,ecological and cultural values of the Xinghua Duotian agrosystem)
文摘The Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System(GIAHS)has been established by FAO to protect valuable agricultural systems that are rich in biodiversity and home to indigenous knowledge,technology and cultural values.GIAHS has been accepted by many countries as a tool to maintain traditional agrosystems as“living heritage”.This paper examined the Xinghua Duotian agrosystem in eastern China to explore whether the GIAHS programme is an effective instrument for top-down implementation of conservation policies initiated by the government.An intensive social survey using a questionnaire was conducted in the core conservation area to examine farmers’understanding of the agrosystem and their willingness to conserve it.Statistical analyses including factor analysis,a linear model,a logit model and an optimal scale model were used to reveal farmers’perception of GIAHS and the factors that impact their willingness to conserve.Results show that the agrosystem faces challenges of aging and population loss.Farmers were not very familiar with GIAHS.They did not link GIAHS to the agrosystem because they generally understood GIAHS as a title meant to bring economic benefits,although they also thought the agrosystem had non-economic values worth conserving.Because farmers were not sure about the economic outcomes of the GIAHS programme,they thought the government,not them,should take the main role in conservation.Therefore,GIAHS as a tool to encourage farmers to become active in conservation does not seem very effective.It will not become so until it truly facilitates the transformation of non-economic values to economic values in the agrosystem.We suggested that the concepts of GIAHS should be matched to farmers’perceptions to provide farmers with conservation incentives.
