The Research On The Influence Of Farmer Livelihoods From The Perspective Of Rocky Desertification Governance

In the last two decades the state has invested a lot of money and technology to governance desertification. And it has implemented more than a dozen ecology projects in Southwest. The implementation of these projects will control rocky desertification and change the livelihoods of farmers, the livelihoods change may also affect the rocky desertification control effect. How to interact with the impact of both? If the livelihoods of farmers currently exists a negative impact on the effect of rocky desertification control, how to design alternative livelihoods of farmers to improve the livelihoods of farmers, while also beneficial effect of the consolidation of rocky desertification control?In this context, taking Qianxinan Prefecture as an example, from the following four aspects, this paper will:(1)Establish the livelihoods analysis framework on the perspective of the rocky desertification based on the analytical framework of sustainable livelihoods of DFID, and definite its mechanism and connotation;(2)Analyze the effects of the rocky desertification governance on farmer livelihood capital and its strategy, focus on the farmers’ livelihood capital and livelihood strategies, and make the empirical analysis of the significance level of difference between the sub-participation and non-participation group;(3) Analyze the effects of farmers’ livelihood result on the rocky desertification and degradation, make the empirical analysis of the correlation between the rocky degradation and the farmers’ production activities, land use change;(4) Design the combination of farmers’ alternative livelihoods, and analyze the influence factors of farmers’ choice of alternative livelihoods by using binary Logistic regression model.The main conclusions are as follows:(1) Implementation Eco-management project has a significant impact on the livelihoods of farmers part of capital, specifically for participation in the group and the non-participation of the group of farmers in the forest area, arable land, housing construction, daily necessities, and sheep the number of annual revenue and annual subsidies, loan degree of difficulty, headed by years of education, head of household or without technology, experience of work in city, the number of total household labor force, the number of public officials at home and participation in village affairs and frequency of capital projects with significant difference;(2) rocky desertification control also has a significant impact on farmers’ livelihood strategies, embodied for different sample groups of farmers in farming income, forestry income, transfer income, wage income and other medical expenses such as health care spending livelihoods strategy with a significant difference(3) household livelihoods different results have a significant impact on the ecological effect of treatment projects, mainly in two aspects, firstly, area of rocky desertification control degradation and farmers overgrazing, excessive firewood mining, deforestation, land reclamation and improper mode of operation showed a significant correlation; Secondly, farmers land use patterns were also significantly associated with the rocky land degradation, reflected in the rocky desertification and forest degradation rate and the rate of change was significantly associated upland;(4) alternative livelihood strategies of farmers affected by the choice of livelihood capital is significant, but different livelihoods affected by different types of capital and the impact of different factors. The effect of the livelihoods capital on the concrete livelihood strategies are the followings: whether to choose modern livestock farmers by the family as a alternative livelihood affected by the level of education the ability to work as a whole, the number of livestock, annual income, and other livelihood capital; modern agriculture intensive farming households is selected by the court as a whole influenced by education level, household labor force as a whole, the head of household age, natural capital, and annual income; farmers choose whether migrant workers affected by the number of livestock, natural capital, labor skills, work experience, and annual household income; the farmers choose whether to do business influenced by social capital, the ability to work as a whole family, headed by education, livestock and natural capital; whether the choice of specialty products processing households headed by age, education level family as a whole, the impact of education and age of the head of household; whether the farmers choose tourism services affected by farmer education, age, the overall level of education and social capital.