China's Grain for Green Programme - The Biggest Reforestation Programme Ever

China's grain for green programme has been on going since nineteen ninety nine. A decade after the programme was implemented in millions of ters were reforested. There were improvements in soil retention, carbon sequestration, flood mitigation and even sand store prevention. But china was not the first country to come to the conclusion that a cheap way to preserve a threatened eco system was to simply make payouts....