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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (28): 156-164.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2021-0981

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Impact of Livelihood Capital on the Livelihood Activities of Ethnic Minority Farmers and the Regional Differences: Case Study in Xinping County in Yuanjiang Dry-hot Valley

PAN Yuhan1(), ZHAO Wenjuan1,2(), HE Kejian1, HUANG Xiaoxia1, SHI Yaqiu1   

  1. 1School of Earth Science, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091
    2Yunnan Institute of Geography, Kunming 650091
  • Received:2021-10-15 Revised:2022-02-15 Online:2022-10-05 Published:2022-09-28
  • Contact: ZHAO Wenjuan E-mail:yuhanpan@foxmail.com;zhaowj@ynu.edu.cn

Abstract:

The paper aims to reveal the difference between livelihood capital and livelihood activities in the context of regional element changes and constraints, determine the key drivers that affect farmers’ livelihood activities. Taking Xinping County in Yuanjiang dry-hot valley as a case, we used NMDS (non-metric multi-dimensional scale analysis) and One-way ANOVA (analysis of variance) to reveal the differences of livelihood capital and livelihood activity of the farmers living in the basin and the semi-mountainous region, and to interpret the influence mechanism of livelihood capital on livelihood activities through redundancy analysis and variation partitioning analysis. The results showed that: (1) the difference in the composition of farmers’ livelihood capital was mainly contributed by four indicators related to land transfer, namely per capita dry land area, per capita paddy land area, government subsidies, and land transfer income (the single difference contribution rate was more than 10%, and the cumulative contribution rate was 56.85%); (2) there were significant differences of the three livelihood activities, namely crop farming, working locally and working outside, between the farmers of the two types of living regions: basin farmers were mainly engaged in crop farming and working outside, semi-mountainous farmers mainly work locally; (3) the explanation rate of livelihood capital to the composition of livelihood activity was 57.3%, the importance degree of livelihood capital on livelihood activities was natural capital> human capital> financial capital> material capital> social capital. The current development of farmers’ livelihood activities depends on natural capital and human capital, while the support and transformation effect of material capital, financial capital and social capital on livelihood activity have not yet been emerged distinctly.

Key words: ecologically fragile areas, sustainable livelihood, participatory rural appraisal, redundancy analysis, variance partitioning analysis

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