| The basic goal of collective forest tenure reform is to achieve resource growth,foresters income Increasing, forest region harmony, good ecology. Therefore, collectiveforest tenure reform is closely related with the farmers and is bound to have an importantimpact on farmers’ livelihood. Yunnan Province is a large forestry province. The maintasks of collective forest tenure reform have been completed and the supportingmeasures are constantly being improved. Therefore, this article,Yongsheng County andMidu County as the study area, explores the impact of collective forest tenure reform onfarmers’ livelihood in Yunnan province. It analyzes the major impact of collective foresttenure reform on farmers’ livelihood, which provides new ideas to improve livingstandards of the farmers and also provides the basis for government policy formulation.This article uses document sorting method, field survey method, comparisonanalytic method, variance analysis method and other methods in the process of datacollection and analysis of data. According to the theory of property rights and sustainablelivelihoods theory, explores the impact of collective forest tenure reform on farmers’livelihood. This paper establishes the indicator system of the impact of collective foresttenure reform on farmers’ livelihood. Sample areas are evaluated by making use of theindicator system. It takes advantage of analysis of variance to determine the degree ofinfluence of collective forest tenure reform on farmers’ livelihood and put forward policyrecommendations to improve farmers’ livelihood. The main contents of the study includethe following aspects.Foreign scholars have a wide range of research on forestry property rights system. Alarge number of foreign literatures are quantitative research. But foreign literatures onchina’s collective forest tenure reform pay less attention; Domestic research results aremainly concentrated in the five aspects. That is problems and recommended practices ofcollective forest tenure reform, performance of collective forest tenure reform, thehistorical changes of the collective forest property rights system, the concept of forestrights, motivation and direction of collective forest tenure reform, and supportingmeasures of collective forest tenure reform. Qualitative analysis of the literatures areMore, but quantitative researches are less; However, domestic and foreign scholars arenot paying enough attention on the direction of collective forest tenure reform onfarmers’ livelihood.This paper establishes the indicator system of the impact of collective forest tenurereform on farmers’ livelihood. The indicator system follows some principles. They are systematic and hierarchical, consistent and dynamics, scientific and practical and so on.It includes a target layer,3system,11sub-systems, and50indicators. It analyzesrelevant indicators of the farmers before and after collective forest tenure reform, takingadvantage of three years of data of two sample counties; Livelihood capital, livelihoodstrategies and livelihood consequences are evaluated.This paper analyzes50indicators of the two counties. These indicators cover11aspects, that is, natural capital, physical capital, human capital, financial capital, socialcapital and so on.The results shows that collective forest tenure reform has had animpact on farmers’ livelihood. Collective forest tenure reform has brought farmers moreforest land resources, increased the number of farmers in physical capital, broadened thefinancing channels for farmers and had a significant impact on the number of forestrycooperative organizations; Collective forest tenure reform has had a significant effect onforestry income of farmers; Income of economic forest is the main driver of growth offorestry income of farmers; Collective forest tenure reform has a significant impact onincome of economic forest. Expenditure of entering the labor by themselves is the largestpart of forestry expenditure. However, Expenditure of entering the labor by themselvescan not reflect the expectations of farmers for the future development of forestry. In ashort period of time, although collective forest tenure reform has improved theenthusiasm of farmers for operating forests and protecting forests, it has notfundamentally changed the choice of farmers’ livelihood strategies; Collective foresttenure reform has improved the poverty situation of farmers to some extent. However, itsimpact on the environment is small.In order to further deepen collective forest tenure reform and achieve its objectives,this paper argues that construction of forestry cooperative organizations, theestablishment of forest rights trading center, related laws and regulations of improvingthe forestland transfer and forest right mortgage loan, forestry science and technologyservices and maintenance of the stability of the various subsidy policy should bestrengthened. |
