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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (2): 157-164.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2021-0151

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Farmers’ Ecological Compensation Willingness and Livelihood Capital in Qingyazhai Nature Reserve

WANG Yao1,2(), LI Liangtao1(), LIANG Shijie1, ZHANG Xiaohua3, ZHOU Yuekang1, MA Chuanyu1   

  1. 1College of Landscape and Ecological Engineering, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan, Hebei 056038
    2Handan University, Handan, Hebei 056005
    3Management Committee of Wuan Qingyazhai National Nature Reserve in Hebei, Wuan, Hebei 056300
  • Received:2021-02-10 Revised:2021-05-03 Online:2022-01-15 Published:2022-02-25
  • Contact: LI Liangtao E-mail:wangyao8797@163.com;li@163.com

Abstract:

To alleviate the contradiction between ecological protection and local sustainable development, this paper took the Qingyazhai Nature Reserve in Hebei Province as an example, used questionnaires and conditional value assessment method to analyze the willingness of local farmers to accept ecological compensation and their livelihood capital. The results showed that the average expected value of ecological compensation willingness of farmers in the reserve was 4148 yuan/hm2. The main form of compensation for farmers was cash compensation, followed by policy compensation and in-kind compensation, with the lowest demand on technical compensation. The highest compensation demands by farmers were preferential policies for farmers and the improvement of the social security system. Among the in-kind compensation, farmers’ demand for grain and organic fertilizers ranked the first, and the demand for environmental pesticides ranked the second. In terms of technical compensation, there was a high demand for fruit and vegetable planting technology, agricultural planting technology and agricultural product processing technology. The natural capital of the reserve was 0.1812, the human capital was 0.4431, the physical capital was 0.1638, the financial capital was 0.4165, and the social capital was 0.2998. The overall development of livelihood capital was unbalanced, showing vulnerability, and the livelihood capital of farmers with different compensation willingness was different. This research is of significance for the formulation of ecological compensation policies in the study area and the construction of reasonable ecological compensation mechanisms.

Key words: compensation mechanism, conditional value assessment method, willingness to accept compensation, compensation method, livelihood capital

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