Community forest management,gender and fuelwood collection in rural Nepal

This paper investigates how Forest User Group (FUG) management of community forests and household characteristics influence household allocation of male and female labor to fuelwood collection in rural Nepal. FUG collection bans are found to displace both landed and landless female fuelwood collection labor to other forests that are typically further away, but lower restrictions do not. A higher female FUG executive committee share has both conservation and equity enhancing effects by lowering the likelihoods that landless, Dalit, landed and non-Dalit women collect in other forests, and increasing the likelihood landless males collect in the FUG forest.     

农户参与林业碳汇意愿及影响因素动态分析——以云南省凤庆县、镇康县为例

运用农户调查数据,采用计量经济学分析方法,建立模型对农户参与意愿的影响因素进行了动态分析。结果显示,在项目涉及区,文化程度,家庭劳动力人数,家庭人均收入,林业收入占家庭收入比例,农户环保意识,对碳汇林未来经济预期六个变量对农户的参与意愿影响显著;在非项目涉及区,文化程度,林业收入占家庭收入比例,林地面积,农户环保意识,对碳汇林未来经济预期六个变量对农户的参与意愿影响显著。针对存在的问题,提出提高林业碳汇补偿标准、开展农户教育培训活动、拓展农户收入来源的建议。     

Chinese land policies and farmers’ adoption of organic fertilizer for saline soils

Soil salinization has become a global concern and poses a great threat to food production and sustainable land use. Land use policies are the main driver of saline soil farmland use in ecosystems. This paper proposes a theoretical framework for analyzing how saline soil farmland use is affected by land use practices of individual farm households. An empirical study, using an ordered probit model, was conducted based on questionnaire responses from farm households in 8 towns and 14 villages in eco-fragile areas in Shandong, Jilin and Xinjiang provinces. The results suggest that land tenure, state systems agricultural support, characteristics of a field parcel and characteristics of the farm households have different influences on farmer's land use in three regions. The adoption of organic fertilizer by individual households is constrained by the lack of stability and integrity in land tenure. Furthermore, the parcel of a field is generally small, sparsely distributed and often fragmented, which increases costs. Even subsidizing organic fertilizer does not necessarily help in its adoption. Given these challenges, this study makes recommendations for different regions that may promote the adoption of improved saline soil farmland cultivation methods by farmers.     

较发达地区农户参与农信社小额信贷程度的影响因素分析——基于苏北金湖农户“直接意愿”调查的实证检验

结合农户借贷行为特征,采用江苏省金湖县273个农户实地调查数据,通过基于"直接意愿调查法"的二元Probit模型,从需求和供给两方面实证分析中国较发达地区农户小额信用贷款的现状及影响因素,结果显示,外出务工人数、农村家庭大额非日常支出、农户人际关系的强弱和正规社会资本资源显著影响农户小额信贷的需求,而非农收入比重、农户兼业类型及地区人均贷款显著影响农户获得小额信贷的概率。因此,重视和挖掘农户潜在信贷需求,改进信贷产品服务和质量,满足农户多样化的资金需求,才是实现农村小额信贷的可持续发展之道。     

The complexity of food choices in an everyday context

This study aims to understand the complexity of food choices in an everyday household context. The qualitative data are based on homemakers’ (n = 18) context‐specific accounts of their choice of milk brand, i.e. milk varieties with different fat contents (noted in a 4‐day qualitative food diary and a semi‐structured interview based on the diary). These accounts were considered an approximation of real food choices in households. The necessity of making compromises between contradictory expectations makes food choices, as well as milk brand choices, problematic. The homemakers' accounts involve various levels affecting household activities. At the individual level, the most important motive of choice is the taste and practical use of a product. At the level of households, the traditions stemming from one's childhood and the social aspect of acknowledging other family members’ taste preferences are important. The influence at the level of society and culture leads towards healthier choices, e.g. by providing examples of new, healthier food habits. Here, the special nature of everyday knowledge is emphasized as context dependent. This provides a complementary view to the more traditional, cognitive views of studying the relationship between knowledge of nutrition and food choices. Choices are determined not only by stimulus, cognition or societal structures, but are also constrained by everyday conditions, as well as by the activities of other people.     

Empirical study on the financial repression of rural households＇ debit and credit and the effects on their welfare in less developed regions --Take Suqian city of Jiangsu province as an example

This paper carries out empirical analysis of the ration behavior of rural credit cooperatives in less developed regions in providing loan services to rural households. It also inspects the interaction between rural households＇ demand for credit and the loan supply from rural credit cooperatives with simultaneous discrete model. The performance of supporting agriculture through a new round reform of rural credit cooperatives is doubtable in this sample region.     

林业大财经的财税政策和保险

本文在研究林业财政、税收、保险的现状和问题基础上 ,提出建立以生态环境建设为主体的林业大财经战略的新理念 ,提出建立新的林业财政、税收、保险的思路     

林业投资项目与工业投资项目可行性研究方法比较

林业具有寿命周期不确定性、产品多样性和效益目标多重性等特点。因此,对林业项目进行可行性研究也体现出与一般工业项目不同的特点和要求。只有根据林业项目特点选择合适的可行性研究方法,才能对项目做出客观科学的评价,为科学投资决策提供可靠的依据。     

论森林资源保护的社会林业对策

本文阐述了森林资源的物质性、生态性和社会性等三重属性,指出了我国森林资源面临的主要问题,提出了森林资源保护需要整个社会的参与,需要广大群众特别是乡村农民的参与。作者从观念、制度、资源配置、实践等方面论述了森林资源保护的社会林业对策。     

目的论在林业科技翻译中的应用

从文本类型和目的论的三大法则出发探讨了把目的论应用于林业科技翻译的可行性和必要性。德国的目的论以翻译目的为核心，摆脱等效论的束缚，有利于发挥译者的主观能动性，提高林业科技文献翻译的质量。