An Assessment of Poverty Alleviation Measures and Sustainable Livelihood Capability of Farm Households in Rural China: A Sustainable Livelihood Approach

Su, Fang; Song, Nini; Ma, Ning; Sultanalive, Altynbek; Ma, Jie; Xue, Bing; Fahad, Shah

doi:10.3390/agriculture11121230

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“…Different context raises different obstacles, needs, expectations, and resources, as well as different starting points. Previous studies have been conducted to examine or assess the localized risks, vulnerability, livelihoods potential, people's perceptions and adaptation to deal with natural disaster (Fahad and Jing, 2018;Fahad and Wang, 2018;Su et al, 2021;Fahad et al, 2022b) to ensure better understanding of the localized context and recommend a more relevant approach to increase the resiliency of the community. That is why, this study aims to examine the school disaster preparedness implementation in Mount Sinabung area, one of disaster-prone area in Indonesia.…”

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The obstacles hierarchy of school disaster preparedness implementation in Mount Sinabung area, Indonesia

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The incidence of natural disasters has an impact on various sectors of life, including the education sector. Schools as educational facilities are considered vulnerable areas that need handling steps to reduce disaster risk. As one of the most vulnerable countries to natural disasters, Indonesia already has several policies and programs from the government to address these problems. However, several studies have shown that the implementation did not go according to plan. These studies also reveal that this implementation lies in the local context in which the program or policy is implemented. That is why the study aims to examine the school disaster preparedness implementation in the Mount Sinabung area as one of the disaster-prone areas in Indonesia. This research utilizes the Interpretative Structural Modeling approach to build a hierarchy and classification of obstacles in implementing school disaster preparedness around that area. Data are collected through a combination of observation, interview, and survey techniques in 2017 and 2018 that involved a total of 35 participants. The result showed 14 sub-elements identified as limiting factors of school preparedness implementation in the Mount Sinabung area. Three elements serve as the first level (or the basis/key element) of the obstacles hierarchy: Integration of subject, school policy, and school curriculum. Intervention at the base level will trigger changes and give impact the other upper-four levels of elements. This hierarchy and classification are relevant to the context of the Mount Sinabung eruption and cannot be applied in other areas. This research did not measure the numeric data per sub-element in disaster preparedness. Therefore, the limitations of this study can be directions for future research to examine the implementation in another area by using numeric data. The results of this study also provide major recommendations to several stakeholders. The existing policies regarding school disaster preparedness and their implementation need to be reviewed to improve the result.

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“…All parts of the world are impacted by climate change, which leads to significant agitations in natural systems that might be anticipated to have an impact on upland regions' economic systems. Climate change has a detrimental effect on several sectors, including agriculture, groundwater, and diet, soil quality and organic matter, health problems, and poverty [ 6 ]. A developing nation is among those in the region most susceptible to extreme climatic events, such as famines and overflows, changes in temperature, and variations in rainfall, which are the main causes of climatic variability.…”

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“…According to another study, promoting local enterprises and government financial assistance improves farmers' long-term livelihoods and eliminates absolute poverty. It also shows that poverty alleviation strategies and natural and social capital for long-term survival have a beneficial relationship [ 6 ].…”

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Determinants of Food Insecurity and the Choice of Livelihood Strategies: The Case of Abay Chomen District, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia

Gebissa

Geremew

2022

The Scientific World Journal

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Most of the sub-Saharan African countries including Ethiopia were affected by the food insecurity issue. This study aimed to analyze the drivers of food insecurity, the choice of livelihood strategies, and factors that impact the choices of food security strategies in response to food insecurity in Abay Chomen District of Ethiopia’s Oromia region, Ethiopia. The result of this study is based on primary data and obtained from 150 randomly chosen sample households and secondary data generated from various sources. As for the technique of data analysis, this study employed descriptive statistics for the food insecurity index, as well as a binary logistic model and a multinomial logit model for the choice of household livelihood techniques. The findings of the survey showed that 51.3% of the households were found to be food-insecure and 48.7% food-safe in the study area. Furthermore, the result indicated that the average calorie consumption of the households surveyed was 2008.54 kcal for each adult equivalent per day, which is below the lowest calorie necessity of 2200 kcal. The estimated logistic model outcome on the drivers of household food insecurity confirmed the oldness of the household leader, larger family holder, and off-farm income affects negatively, while the gender of the household leader, the size of the built-up area, the number of livestock holdings (except oxen), the number of oxen owned, access to credit, the participation in the sale of cattle, and others affect positively. In addition, the multinomial logit model result indicates that the educational status of the household leader, the size of livestock farming, the number of oxen possessed, access to credit, remoteness to the market, and monthly agricultural earning are the main drivers of the choice of livelihood strategies of concern for the food insecurity of households. As a result, this research attempted to produce a result of analysis with a defined scope, although many questions remain unsolved. Future studies should concentrate on presenting fundamental data on the factors that affect food security status and livelihood strategy, the social, political, natural, and environmental aspects, the descriptive information on the shopping habits of people who experience food insecurity, and the key aspects that increase the vulnerability of the rural poor to food insecurity.

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“…The sustainable livelihoods framework (SLF) provides a comprehensive, logical analysis perspective with which to examine the interrelations between livelihood capital, livelihood strategies, and livelihood outcomes [ 14 ]. In recent years, previous studies have applied the SLF to identify the affect factors impacting livelihood strategies [ 15 ]; assess livelihood sustainability [ 16 ], vulnerability [ 17 ], adaptability [ 18 ], and stability [ 19 ]; and explore the constraints on and incentives for rural household livelihoods [ 20 ], from which quite meaningful research accomplishments have been achieved.…”

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Household Groups’ Land Use Decisions Investigation Based on Perspective of Livelihood Heterogeneity in Sichuan Province, China

Tang

Liu

Dai

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IJERPH

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Land use decision-making is a vital livelihood strategy associated with the rational collocation of livelihood asset endowments by rural households. Based on the perspective of livelihood heterogeneity, this paper collected the data from 540 farm households in 27 villages in three Sichuan Province counties to identify the land use decision-making characteristics of the household groups. A land use decision-making framework (LUDF) based on the sustainable livelihood framework (SLF) was established and dynamic and dual indicators were developed to divide the sample into six household groups. The household livelihood capital, livelihood strategies, and livelihood diversity were then analyzed at the regional and household group level, and the land use decisions of these household groups were explored, from which the following was found. (1) Overall livelihood capital in the study area was low, and except for human assets, there were few other assets, with households in the survey areas being more inclined to engage in non-farming livelihood activities; however, households in Nanjiang and Qionglai had greater livelihood activities choices than Luxian. (2) The LL-type household was the chief household group; the household group distribution in Qionglai was well-proportioned but uneven in Nanjiang and Luxian; and the HL-type, ML-type, and LL-type household livelihood strategy choices were polarized. (3) Most households were involved in land self-cultivation, followed by land transfer-in, land transfer-out, and land abandonment households. Specifically, there were more households that cultivated fragmented landholdings than specialized households with large-scale landholdings, the land transfer rate was relatively low, the transfer-in land area was far greater than the transfer-out land areas, and a small number of households that had abandoned their land were still involved in agricultural production. (4) There were obvious discordant human–land relationships and inefficient land uses in the study area. Based on these findings, relevant policy recommendations are given to improve farm household livelihood capital, optimize livelihood strategies, and assist in land use decision-making.

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An Assessment of Poverty Alleviation Measures and Sustainable Livelihood Capability of Farm Households in Rural China: A Sustainable Livelihood Approach

Cited by 63 publications

References 44 publications

The obstacles hierarchy of school disaster preparedness implementation in Mount Sinabung area, Indonesia

The obstacles hierarchy of school disaster preparedness implementation in Mount Sinabung area, Indonesia

Determinants of Food Insecurity and the Choice of Livelihood Strategies: The Case of Abay Chomen District, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia

Household Groups’ Land Use Decisions Investigation Based on Perspective of Livelihood Heterogeneity in Sichuan Province, China

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