Farmers' Sustainable Livelihood Capital And Its Impact On Entrepreneurial Intention

Famers' sustainable livelihood is an important indicator to measure farmers' poverty level,thus the sustainable development is of great significance to solve farmers' poverty issues.Meantime,farmers' entrepreneurship may contribute to their income,help to promote their livelihood,and promote the working process of eradicating poverty in Western China.This paper uses sustainable livelihood framework,entropy weight method and Logistic regression method to analyze the farmers in Ningxia province and Guangxi province.Through the comprehensive evaluation of sustainable livelihood capital and analysis of the impact of livelihood capital on entrepreneurial intention,this paper aims to answer the following two questions:1)what are the key variables impacting the famers'livelihood capital;2)how the livelihood capital influences farmers' entrepreneurial intention.The primary conclusion of this paper are summarized as followings:Firstly,the paper analyzes the farmers' sustainable livelihood capital in Ningxia and Guangxi.The comprehensive evaluation of farmers' livelihood capital indicates that the overall level of famers' livelihood capital is low in Ningxia(0.111)and Guangxi(0.104),and the stock of social capital,human capital and financial capital are relatively high comparing the livelihood capital.Secondly,this paper verifies the impact of famers' livelihood capital on their entrepreneurial intention.The results of Logistics regression show that farmers' livelihood capital has significant impact on the entrepreneurial intention in two regions,while the influence model are different.In terms of Ningxia,the farmers' entrepreneurial intention is influenced by the natural capital,social capital,financial capital and material capital,the social capital and financial capital are helped to improve farmers' entrepreneurial intention.In terms of Guangxi,the personal feature,social capital,financial capital,material capital and human capital have positive impacts on farmers' entrepreneurial intention,the impact of natural capital is relatively lower.Thirdly,this paper raises the proposal about improving farmers' livelihood capital and encouraging farmers' entrepreneurship,which includes innovating the government assistance form,broadening farmers' financing channels,increasing government subsidies,launching diversified skills training and other related methods.This paper provides the infrastructure for future research on the farmers' poverty problem in Western minority autonomous regions,and provides scientific evidence for future research on take targeted measures to help people lift themselves out ofp overty.