A factor-income approach to estimating grassland protection subsidy payments to livestock herders in Inner Mongolia, China

Agriculture & Biology

• grazing intensity 100%
• subsidies 91%
• income 66%
• grasslands 66%
• livestock 63%
• land policy 62%
• grassland restoration 60%
• herding 55%
• overgrazing 51%
• farms 51%
• China 49%
• ecosystem services 41%
• stocking rate 40%
• grazing 31%
• goats 31%
• sheep 26%
• methodology 10%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• subsidy 83%
• livestock 72%
• income 67%
• grassland 63%
• grazing 50%
• farm 32%
• overgrazing 24%
• goat 23%
• policy 23%
• empirical analysis 23%
• stocking 22%
• sheep 20%
• accounting 20%
• ecosystem service 17%
• restoration 14%
• land use 12%
• land 10%
• need 10%
• loss 10%
• rate 6%
• method 4%

Social Sciences

• Mongolia 97%
• subsidy 76%
• income 51%
• farm 47%
• China 46%
• financial loss 36%
• restoration 26%
• land use 25%
• producer 21%
• literature 10%