黄土丘陵区是我国1999年实施的以退耕还林为中心的生态建设工程重点地区之一。文中以文献和农户调查数据为基础,对黄土丘陵区特别是陕北安塞县,生态建设对其植被恢复、粮食生产、农民收入的影响进行了梳理和总结,并分析了农户对生态建设的认知与响应。研究认为,生态建设显著促进了区域的植被恢复,增加了退耕农户的收入,得到了农户的积极响应和参与。由于退耕地多为劣质耕地,坡地退耕对区域粮食生产影响很小,但却促进了土地的集约经营、农业结构调整和农村劳动转移,改变了农户的收入结构。建议国家继续推进生态建设,扶持农户梯田和坝地建设,发展高附加值的农业产业,提高农民的收入,促进农民的口粮安全,保证生态建设取得的成果。
The Hilly Loess Plateau in Northwestern China is a key region for the ecological construction program,financially supported by the government to promote the restoration of degraded land by converting slope farmland to forest or grassland.After the implementation in 1999,this program stimulated various changes in the physical environment,food grain production and rural income.In this paper we discussed effects of the program on the above aspects,and identified the awareness and responses of local farmers to the program in the Hilly Loess Plateau with special focuses on Ansai County,based on literature and household survey data.It was found that the ecological construction program markedly promoted the vegetation restoration and an increase of farmer income,and thus received a positive response and active participation of local farmers.Since the converted farmland was mostly steep slope land with low yield,the farmland conversion had no adverse effects on the food grain production,but it