Study site description: Yan River Basin, China

Table of Contents

1. Responsible partner
2. General information
3. Bio-physical description
4. Socio-economic description
5. Institutional and political setting
   1. Institutions involved in natural resource management and desertification
   2. Civil societies and traditional organisations
   3. Existing laws and policies for land and water resource management
6. Relevant end-users / stakeholder groups

Civil societies and traditional organisations

There are different societies of fruit growers, vegetable growers and so on. The function of these societies is very weak because they have no power to manage the production and price.