Livelihood sustainability and dynamic mechanisms of rural households out of poverty: An empirical analysis of Hua County, Henan Province, China

Deng, Qingqing; Li, Erling; Zhang, Pengyan

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2020.102160

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“…Nevertheless, to secure smallholders' share of land reform benefits, related policies should provide each rural household with equal opportunities to engage in farmland rental activities based on their land and labor endowments. For households with the lowest off-farm income and for rural households close to the poverty line, improving their development ability and resource use efficiency is essential for maintaining their sustainable livelihood development [84]. In this case, it is effective and valuable to actively organize farmland rental cooperatives to aid households having fewer off-farm employment opportunities to engage in farmland rental and thus enhance their off-farm livelihood diversities.…”

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Farmland Rental Participation, Agricultural Productivity, and Household Income: Evidence from Rural China

Han

2021

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The rural land rental market is playing an increasingly important role in the agricultural transformation period for developing countries, including China, where rural farmland rental is highly context-specific with the implementation of the collective-owned rural land system; thus, in turn, the access to farmland rental markets for rural households has profoundly influenced their livelihood strategies and income earnings. This paper investigates the income impact differences caused by rural households’ farmland rental participation activities and explores such impact mechanisms by further evaluating the income impacts caused by rental area and household agricultural productivity. Data from the Chinese national household survey were used for estimating the empirical models. Our results show that farmland renting has positively affected households’ on-farm and total income, but there is no significant effect upon off-farm income. According to income differences across quantiles, we find households with high on-farm income are more sensitive about enlarging their farm size by renting farmland, and households with middle and upper-middle off-income may benefit more from renting out their farmland. Furthermore, the joint effects of renting area and household agricultural productivity on lessee households’ farm income is significantly positive. For lessor households, our results indicate that renting out farmland did not improve their off-farm and total income as it may have a limited effect on farm household labor distribution. Our findings suggest that engaging in farmland rental activity can enhance farming productivity efficiency and poverty alleviation among rural households. Under the collective-owned rural land system, it is urgent and necessary to initiate and design incentive policies to encourage highly efficient large farms to expand the farm size and provide smallholders with equal opportunities to engage in farmland rental activities.

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Farmland Rental Participation, Agricultural Productivity, and Household Income: Evidence from Rural China

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2021

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“…In a spatial context, many studies focus on rural and urban sustainability. In rural areas, the focus is on household livelihood issues, as mentioned in Deng et al (2020), or the sustainability of spatial interactions between the two regions (Ji et al, 2019). For example, Buchori and Sugiri (2016) use the terminology "sustainable metropolitan" to encourage applicable policies while maintaining the concept of triple bottom lines.…”

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Formulating and Validating Sustainable Residential Area Indicators in Suburban Metropolitan Jakarta

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In today's empirical studies on sustainability, researchers still rely on the concept of "triple bottom lines" (economic, social, and environmental), which are influential in covering development issues. However, this concept has limitations for specific cases, such as regional, local, and sectoral levels. One sector that should adopt sustainability principles is the residential area in the suburban area. The academic discourse on sustainable residential area (SRA) is still requiring extensive research, especially on generating reliable and valid indicators. In the policy arena, particularly in Indonesia, an accurate indicator of measuring SRA is not available. Thus, this study intends to develop and validate the SRA indicators. The "citizen-led" approach was used in this study to observe 332 households spread in the cities of South Tangerang, Tangerang, Depok, and Bekasi. These cities are spatially located in the hinterland of Greater Jakarta. Households are divided into residential and non-residential area households. By extending into a literature review, this study develops 51 SRA indicators grouped into economic, social, environmental, infrastructure, technology, and governance parameters. Moreover, using structural equation modelling with a confirmatory factor analysis approach, this study generates 36 valid and reliable SRA indicators. This study provides that the model could be considered a structure and system that enhances the SRA.

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“…Previous studies have mainly used the sustainable livelihood framework (SLF) proposed by the Department for International Development (DFID) in 1997 to carry out empirical research on changes in farmers' livelihood (Bebbington, 1999;Kuang et al, 2020;Yin et al, 2020). The SLF was mainly used to study the livelihood of farmers in poverty-stricken areas (Gentle and Maraseni, 2012;Liu and Xu, 2016;Deng et al, 2020), the livelihood of land-lost farmers (Nguyen and Kim, 2020) and various factors that affect residential livelihood (Liu et al, 2018;Nicod et al, 2020). However, few studies have used this framework to study the livelihood capital of coastal farmers, and there is, in particular, a lack of systematic measurements of the impacts of coastal ecological protection policies on the livelihood capital of coastal farmers.…”

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What Are the Impacts of a Coastal Zone Protection Policy on Farmers’ Livelihood Capital? Empirical Analysis From the Perspective of Farmer Participation

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To restore and protect the ecosystem service function of coastal zones, some farmers have changed their certain original production methods and lifestyles and some have even relinquished a portion of the economic benefits that could be obtained directly. What impacts do the coastal zone ecological protection policies bring to the livelihoods of coastal farmers? The strict coastline protection of Beibu Gulf, Hepu County, Beihai City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, is taken as an example. Combined with the sustainable livelihood framework (SLF), this paper set up an evaluation index system for the livelihood capital of farmers in the Beibu Gulf coastal zone, obtaining 568 valid questionnaires through a field survey, and use the propensity score matching and difference-in-difference (PSM-DID) method to study the impacts of a coastal ecological protection policy on the livelihood capital of coastal farmers from the perspective of farmer participation. The results show that (1) the coastal ecological protection policy had a significant impact on the natural capital and social capital of coastal farmers that actively participated in coastal ecological protection, which increased by 0.181 and 0.052, respectively. (2) However, it did not have a significant impact on the total livelihood capital, human capital, physical capital or financial capital. Therefore, this paper presents policy suggestions for constructing coastal ecological compensation mechanisms and for promoting active participation by coastal farmers in coastal ecological protection efforts.

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Livelihood sustainability and dynamic mechanisms of rural households out of poverty: An empirical analysis of Hua County, Henan Province, China

Cited by 70 publications

References 34 publications

Farmland Rental Participation, Agricultural Productivity, and Household Income: Evidence from Rural China

Farmland Rental Participation, Agricultural Productivity, and Household Income: Evidence from Rural China

Formulating and Validating Sustainable Residential Area Indicators in Suburban Metropolitan Jakarta

What Are the Impacts of a Coastal Zone Protection Policy on Farmers’ Livelihood Capital? Empirical Analysis From the Perspective of Farmer Participation

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