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Agistment refers to paying others for the right to graze on their land and contract grazing means taking in other’s livestock for payment (often involving long distance seasonal migration).
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Explanations of draft PRC Grassland Law [Revised]. Beijing People’s Daily,24 August 2002.
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According to Xinjiang Animal husbandry Bureau.
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Acknowledgement Thanks are due to Dong Xiao-gang, Ren Heng and Sheng Ya-ping graduate students North Western Normal University, Lanzhou who assisted with field work in Ma Yinggou village, Gansu, and for help with data analysis and translation. The GEF project provided funds to support this applied research.
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Meiping, W., Cheng-zhang, Z., Limin, H., Squires, V. (2010). Land Tenure: Problems, Prospects and Reform. In: Squires, V., Hua, L., Li, G., Zhang, D. (eds) Towards Sustainable Use of Rangelands in North-West China. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9622-7_12
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