School of Geography and Environmental Science, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550025, China.
Environ Res. 2021 Jun;197:111171. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111171. Epub 2021 Apr 24.
Farmer household livelihood choice has been critical in ecosystem and natural resource sustainability in developing countries. This paper investigates the choices of farmer household livelihood in a Karst environment in China by using a multinomial logistic regression model to analyze 676 farmer household questionnaire responses from 6 counties in Anshun City, Guizhou Province. The results show that factors such as land quality, regional accessibility, government policies, and farmer households' characteristics have significant effect on farmer household livelihood choices. Even though farmers are unwilling to live in areas of rocky desertification and soil erosion, the proportion of those who live in those areas is high, because alternatives are limited by environment conditions and farmer households' situations. Good regional traffic accessibility facilitates farmer households' part-time non-agricultural employment. Meanwhile, the Rocky Desertification Control Project increases migrant laborers. The study suggests that government policies diversify the choices of farmer household livelihoods in different eco-environment regions.
农户生计选择在发展中国家的生态系统和自然资源可持续性方面一直至关重要。本文通过使用多项逻辑回归模型，分析了来自贵州省安顺市 6 个县的 676 户农户问卷的回答，调查了中国喀斯特环境下农户生计的选择。结果表明，土地质量、区域可达性、政府政策和农户特征等因素对农户生计选择有显著影响。尽管农民不愿意生活在石漠化和水土流失地区，但生活在这些地区的农民比例很高，因为环境条件和农户情况限制了他们的选择。良好的区域交通可达性有利于农民从事兼职非农就业。同时，《石漠化治理工程》增加了外出务工人员。研究表明，政府政策使不同生态环境地区的农户生计选择多样化。
