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Sloping Land Conversion Program: insights of policy outcomes from Yunnan Province,
Southwest China
Jun He
World Agroforestry Centre
Key questions for research
Overall question:
Whether the SLCP has ben effectively implemented , the extent of its ecological and socioeconomic outcomes and how SLCP contribute to forest recovery or forest transition?
Sub-questions:
• How the SLCP was implemented locally?
• What are the environmental and socioeconomic outcome of Sloping Land Conservation Program at local level?
• Why those outcome varied across place, (the SLCP is very successful in one place, but did not achieve its original goal in the others )?
Methodology
Case-study approach
• Remote sensing, Landsat, rapid eye,
• 104 HHs Questionnaire survey
• Interviews multi-level
• Focus groups
Results: Land use and cover change
--Forest transition incurred much before SLCP at about 1989-2002
--Largely proportion of forest recovery is not in the SLCP plots
2002-2010Source: He et al. 2014,
Results: Land use and cover change on the plots of SLCP
Source: He, 2014
Demographic dynamics and income changes
--Population growth, while forest growth--Economic growth, while forest growthSource: He et al. 2014
Results:Farmers volunteering for SLCP
Source: He, 2014
influential actors in SLCP decision-making
Source: He, 2014
Results: Socioeconomic assessment of sampled households after SLCP
Source: He, 2014
Results: Local Dynamics and institutions
• Xinqi (han-Chinese)
---local institution for collective management
---local election and democracy, downward accountability
---local communal tenure system
• Pingzhang (Yi minority)
---broken down and eroded local institution
---less representation
---Upward accountability,
Concluding remark• SLCP contribute to forest recovery, but local specifically, this
contribution is arguable.
• SLCP can be trigger points for land use transition.
• SLCP is generally implemented in a top-down approach, while the
central government promoting local participation.
• The SLCP is more likely to be successful where local institution is
strong and downward accountable.
• The SLCP may need to consider local context and regional variability,
and improve the recognition of local institution and participation.