Determinants of Farmer’ Income in Mountain Areas and Implication for Poverty Alleviation:An Empirical Analysis Based on the Upper Reach of Minjiang River
Using four types of settlements in the upper reach of Minjiang River as case,we establish structural models of farmers’ income of different settlement patterns based on rural household panel data to reveal the gradient effect on farmers’ income and determinants.The results indicate that: (1) except the resettlement area,the farmers’ incomes of river valley,semi-mountain,and high-mountain settlements present the decreasing trend with the elevation increasing,on the contrary,the farmers’ nonfarm earnings show an increasing trend with the elevation decreasing; (2) from the effect on farmers’ income,there is the common feature that the nonfarm earnings and farming incomes have significant positive effects,and the family size and the productive expenditure have significant negative effects.One exception to this is the productive expenditure,which becomes insignificant in the model of resettlement area; (3) from the way of increasing the farmers’ income and alleviating the poverty,there are great differences for four types of settlements in mountain areas,however,the improvement of agricultural product sales,agricultural production subsidies,the expansion for nonfarm employment,and the control of the family’s size are the most effective approaches for poverty alleviation.
Mountain settlements Rural household Income gradient Poverty
FANG Yiping FAN Jie SHEN Maoying SONG Mengqiang
Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijin Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences, Chengdu 610071, China
国际会议
成都
英文
233-243
2012-10-15(万方平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)