Ecosystem management to alleviate poverty on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau

中国的草原正处于生态危机状态。例如，在欧亚大陆最大的草地单元青藏高原上，约33%的草地已经退化，其中约15%的草地严重退化，原始植被覆盖率仅为0- 40%。草地退化具有重要的经济和环境后果。中国约80%的农村贫困人口生活在草原生态系统中，这种脆弱的生态环境的进一步退化，以及生态系统服务的丧失，将加速他们的贫困。拟议的伙伴关系和项目发展（PPD）赠款的总体目标是制定一份完整的提案，其目标是：(a)确定这些草原生态系统中生态系统属性/过程与提供关键商品和服务之间的关系；(b)开发有助于在气候变化中保护这些草原的特定生态系统服务或效益的工具；(c)加强决策选择并向农村穷人、商业部门以及区域和国家政府转让这种知识。PPD赠款将使我们能够审查中国有关草原管理和扶贫的相关政策和法规，编制一份编制完整提案所需的所有主要利益相关者团体的清单，组织一次区域研讨会以及对青藏高原哈贝试验站的实地考察，并以参与的方式撰写资助提案，包括所有联盟成员和相关利益相关者。

The grasslands in China are in a state of ecological crisis. For example, about 33% of the grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, the largest grassland unit on the Eurasian continent, are degraded, and about 15% of those are severely degraded with only 0-40 % of the original vegetation cover left. Grassland degradation has important economic and environmental consequences. About 80% of the rural poor in China live in grassland ecosystems and any further degradation of this fragile ecological environment, with an associated loss of ecosystem services, will accelerate their poverty. The overall goal of the proposed Partnership and Project Development (PPD) Grant is to develop a full proposal that has the aims of: (a) identifying the relationship between ecosystem properties/processes and the provision of critical goods and services in these grassland ecosystems; (b) developing tools that help to conserve particular ecosystem services or benefits of these grasslands in a changing climate; and (c) strengthening decision-making options and transferring this knowledge to the rural poor, to the commercial sector, and to regional and national governments. The PPD Grant will allow us to review relevant policies and regulations on grassland management and poverty alleviation in China, to compile a list of all major stakeholder groups required for developing the full proposal, to organize a regional workshop as well as a field excursion to the Habei experimental field station on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, and to write the grant proposal with a participatory approach involving all the consortium members as well as relevant stakeholders.