College of Geography and Resources, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610101, China.
Key Laboratory of Land Resources Evaluation and Monitoring in Southwest, Ministry of Education, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610101, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Feb 14;17(4):1226. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17041226.
Adjusting farming strategies are adaptive behaviors to cope with hazard risks. However, few studies have studied rural and remote mountain areas in China with little known about "farmers' adaptation under the impact of geo-hazards". Unlike traditional farmers' behavioral adaptation studies, in this study, we focused on the resilience of farmers' behavioral mechanisms to address local hazards such as geo-hazards. Our data were acquired through questionnaire responses ( = 516) in mountainous hazard-prone areas in Chongqing, China. The binary logit model and multinomial logit model were used to investigate the obstacles to different farming strategies and the determinants of adaptation strategy choice, focusing on the effects of disaster experience and social support on the adaptation strategy resilience. The results show that the most common adaptation strategy was adjusting crop varieties, and the largest adaptation obstacle was a lack of funds. Additionally, the age of the smallholder, farming acreage, agricultural income, social support, and disaster experience significantly increased the possibility of farmers adjusting their agricultural production. Of these, smallholder agricultural income, state disaster subsidy, the presence of disaster prevention construction, the smallholder's property, and the presence of disaster-caused crop loss experience were the most important factors affecting a farmer's adaptation strategy. In particular, farmers were more sensitive to disaster-caused property loss than to disaster-caused crop loss. This study can provide implications for the government to formulate disaster mitigation measures and for farming strategies at the smallholder level.
调整耕作策略是应对灾害风险的适应行为。然而，很少有研究关注中国农村和偏远山区的情况，对于“地理灾害影响下农民的适应行为”知之甚少。与传统的农民行为适应研究不同，本研究侧重于农民行为机制的弹性，以应对地理灾害等地方灾害。我们的数据是通过在中国重庆山区灾害多发地区的问卷调查（=516）获得的。采用二元逻辑模型和多项逻辑模型，研究了不同耕作策略的障碍因素以及适应策略选择的决定因素，重点关注灾害经历和社会支持对适应策略弹性的影响。结果表明，最常见的适应策略是调整作物品种，最大的适应障碍是资金缺乏。此外，小农户的年龄、耕种面积、农业收入、社会支持和灾害经历显著增加了农民调整农业生产的可能性。在这些因素中，小农户的农业收入、国家灾害补贴、防灾建设的存在、小农户的财产和灾害造成的作物损失经验是影响农民适应策略的最重要因素。特别是，农民对灾害造成的财产损失比对灾害造成的作物损失更为敏感。本研究可为政府制定减灾措施和小农户耕作策略提供启示。
