Li Qirui
State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Water and Soil Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling 712100, China.
Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), EberswalderStraße 84, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany.
Data Brief. 2021 Nov 25;39:107638. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2021.107638. eCollection 2021 Dec.
Smallholders' decisions on land use and their activities and strategies of livelihoods are the critical source of uncertainty in natural resource use and an essential determinant of sustainability challenges. This data article provides a selection of quantitative data from a questionnaire survey on livelihood assets, activities and outcomes of smallholder farm households in Yan'he Township, which lies in the middle part of China's Loess Plateau, one of the representative Grain for Green Project areas [1]. Data include land-use decisions and agronomic practices, fertilisation, use of pesticides, machine and irrigation, farm and non-farm activities, financial performance, and the levels of household income, wellness, and total consumption of food, energy, and education and health care. The survey also covered geographical, demographic and socioeconomic background information on the respondents and their perceptions, incentives, propensities and subjective wellbeing. The survey has supported a couple of research articles that build indicators and indexes for economic, environmental and socio-cultural sustainability dimensions and the resilience building of coupled social-ecological systems. The data presented in this article were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics and provided at the Mendeley Repository. The data will assist studies on the interrelationships of smallholder livelihoods, ecosystem conservation, interventionist policy and market support, and community capacity building in sustainability science.
小农户的土地利用决策及其生计活动与策略，是自然资源利用不确定性的关键来源，也是可持续发展挑战的重要决定因素。本文提供了一系列定量数据，这些数据来自对中国黄土高原中部延河乡小农户家庭生计资产、活动及成果的问卷调查，延河乡是中国典型的退耕还林还草工程地区之一[1]。数据包括土地利用决策和农艺实践、施肥、农药使用、机械与灌溉、农业与非农业活动、财务状况，以及家庭收入水平、健康状况，食品、能源、教育和医疗保健的总消费情况。该调查还涵盖了受访者的地理、人口和社会经济背景信息，以及他们的认知、动机、倾向和主观幸福感。该调查为几篇研究论文提供了支持，这些论文构建了经济、环境和社会文化可持续性维度以及耦合社会生态系统恢复力建设的指标和指数。本文所呈现的数据采用描述性和推断性统计方法进行了分析，并在Mendeley知识库中提供。这些数据将有助于研究小农户生计、生态系统保护、干预政策和市场支持之间的相互关系，以及可持续性科学中的社区能力建设。
