Studies On The Impacts Of The SLCP On Rural Household’ Livelihood Based On The "sla":take Zhouzhi County Of Shaanxi Province As An Example

Based on the field survey data set of mountain areas with Sloping Land ConversionProgram (SLCP) in Zhouzhi County of Xi’an city in Shaanxi province, using the SustainableLivelihood Framework (SLF), raised by the united kingdom department for internationaldevelopment (DFID)and was often used to analyze the impacts of ecological engineering inthe world to establish the evaluation index system, paper first comparatively analyses theliving capital, living strategy and living outcome between rural households with SLCP andrural households without SLCP, so as to find the distinctions and to explain thecauses.Then,the paper uses respectively Multiple Linear Regression and Binary LogisticRegression model to analyze the effects on livelihood strategy and livelihood outcome ofSLCP. Finally, The article from the standpoint of farmers as the main policy practitioners todescribe and analyze the farmers’ will, the farmers’ evaluation on SLCP,the farmers’ degreeof satisfaction and the farmers’ expectations on the follow-up ecological compensation relatedpolicy. Paper has both empirical analysis by neutral and subjective evaluation from farmers,combining with Subjective and objective,to come to the several main conclusions are asfollows:(1)At the aspect of comparison in living capital,rural households with SLCP possessmore natural capital, physical capital and less human capital, financial capital than ruralhouseholds without SLCP, and there is no remarkable difference in social capital betweenthem. In terms of livelihood strategy, income of rural households with SLCP is pronouncedlylower than the counterpart of rural households without SLCP whereas expenditure is a bit.When it comes to livelihood output, poverty rate in rural households with SLCP is muchhigher than that of rural households without SLCP. The reason to this distinction is that therural households with SLCP are much lack of human capital compared to rural householdswithout SLCP,The lack of human capital is attributed to the remote geographical position,which bring about the less opportunity to enhance human capital. (2)At the aspect of the impacts on livelihood strategy of Sloping Land ConversionProgram, SLCP significantly reduced the net income of forestry operation, transfer incomeand net income of the business of the family,The biggest item is the net income of thebusiness of the family. Besides, SLCP had significantly negative influence on foodexpenditures and other expenditures of household.The Econometric analysis of the revenuesand expenses shows SLCP had effect on household livelihood strategy mainly reflected thehousehold arrangement in forestry and business. To the change of household livelihoodstrategy,SLCP did not reach the expected great effect, so the role of SLCP of householdlivelihood change or improve should not be overly exaggerated.(3) At the aspect of impact of Sloping Land Conversion Program to livelihood outcome,Whether to participate in the SLCP is the important reason of leading households in poverty.SLCP reduces the households’ incomes which increase poverty incidence of rural householdswith SLCP indirectly. Besides, the total value of household consumer durables, whetherhousehold have craftsmanship and family total loans in the past5years have significantpositive affect on the decrease of poverty incidence of rural households.(4) At the aspect of forester’s willing of participate and consolidate SLCP, evaluation andsatisfaction of SLCP policy and expectations to the Subsequent ecological compensationpolicy, most households Would like to consolidate results of SLCP even if the governmentstop subsidies. Because of the economic forest has begun to have income and various factorsincluding Sloping lower output and large input make most households wouldn’t destroy theforests. Rural households with SLCP and rural households without SLCP are not satisfiedwith amount and time of subsidy especially not satisfied with the subsidy time. I hope inthe countries subsequent subsidy policy, the government can further lengthen the maturity ofsubsidies and increase the subsidies. In the same time, some households hope the governmentcan help them to sovle the difficulty of human and animal drinking water, the basicconstruction of grain ration farmland, irrigation and water conservancy construction,Implementation of SLCP subsides and improve the woodland property rights.At last, based on the conclusion, the paper put forward policy suggestion aboutcombining the project of returning farmland to forest and ecological migration and Promotethe increase of local household human capital.