Conservation Payments, Liquidity Constraints, and Off-Farm Labor: Impact of the Grain-for-Green Program on Rural Households in China

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  2009

• Venue

  American Journal of Agricultural Economics

• Publication date

  2009-02-01

• Fields of study

  Business, Economics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/J.1467-8276.2008.01184.X
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