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A Study On The Relationship Between Livelihood Capital And Livelihood Strategies Of Farmers In Four Territories Of Southern Xinjiang

Posted on:2020-03-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W W GuoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2427330596470037Subject:Applied statistics
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Along with the turbulent changes in the global economic environment and the uncertainty of social development,the livelihood pressures faced by farmers are increasing,and the issue of sustainable livelihoods has also received widespread attention from researchers.This paper focuses on the southern Xinjiang four states,which is one of the concentrated areas.It analyzes the relationship between farmers' livelihood capital and livelihood strategies,fills in the blank area of rural households' livelihood research in southern Xinjiang,and supplements farmers' livelihood capital and livelihood strategies.The relationship connotation accelerates the pace of precise poverty alleviation in deep poverty areas,and provides some countermeasures and suggestions for improving farmers' livelihood level and smoothly promoting preferential poverty alleviation policies.First,under the framework of DFID sustainable livelihood analysis,establish a livelihood capital indicator measurement system that meets the requirements of farmers in the four southern states,and five types of livelihood capital(natural capital,physical capital,human capital,financial capital,social capital),a total of 14 measurement standard.The entropy method is used to determine the weight of each indicator,and the livelihood capital value of each indicator is calculated and comprehensively evaluated.The results show that among the five types of livelihood capital of the farmers in the southern Xinjiang,the natural capital stock is the lowest,the physical capital and the social capital stock.Higher,and through the analysis of Pearson correlation coefficient,it is found that there is a weak linear relationship between the natural capital of rural households in southern Xinjiang and human capital and social capital.There is no significant linear relationship between other livelihood capitals.Secondly,according to the actual situation of the study area,the types of livelihood strategies of farmers are divided into two categories,agricultural-type livelihood strategies and non-agricultural livelihood strategies,and the main livelihood capital indicator values?of the two types of livelihood strategies are compared.The results show that non-agricultural Type-based livelihood strategies Farmers are relatively high in physical capital,human capital and financial capital stocks.Finally,a binary logistic regression model was established to quantitatively analyze the empirical results show that natural capital(farm area),physical capital(whether there is Internet broadband,household fixed assets),humancapital(family),The overall labor force,the education level of adults,financial capital(annual household income,credit access opportunities),and social capital(opportunities to participate in industrial poverty alleviation projects)have a significant impact on the choice of farmers' livelihood strategies.Among them,the area of cultivated land,whether there is Internet broadband,the family's overall labor force,and the opportunity to participate in industrial poverty alleviation projects have a positive effect on farmers' choice of agricultural livelihood strategies.According to the analysis results,many countermeasures and suggestions for the development of farmers' livelihood in the four southern states are proposed.The main aspect of natural capital is to strengthen the transformation of low-and medium-yield fields,ecological construction and environmental protection;the main aspect of material capital is to strengthen rural communication construction and promote the construction of green energy rural areas;human capital is mainly to develop education and improve the education of farmers in the four southern states.The level of rural surplus labor is fully employed;financial capital is mainly to strengthen financial support for the four southern states and provide financial assistance for farmers' various livelihoods;social capital is mainly for the government to play a key role in accelerating the ex situ Poverty alleviation and relocation projects,actively promote industrial poverty alleviation projects,and broaden the types of livelihoods of farmers;in terms of farmers' livelihood strategies,they seek ways to reduce the livelihood vulnerability of farmers,such as relying on rich cultural heritage to develop characteristic tourism and improve the sustainable development of farmers' livelihoods.
Keywords/Search Tags:livelihood capital, livelihood strategy, binary logistic regression, sustainable livelihood
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