期刊
REGIONAL SUSTAINABILITY
卷 2, 期 4, 页码 363-374出版社
KEAI PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.regsus.2022.01.003
关键词
Livelihood strategy; Livestock production; Marketization; Livelihood diversi fication; Grassland; Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
资金
- Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Scholarship [2017Y90100124]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71774162]
- National Key Basic Research Program of China '973 Project' [2014CB138806]
This study categorized the livelihood strategies of respondents in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China into three types, and found that livestock production and marketization tended to favor herder livelihood strategies. Additionally, factors such as land assets and off-take rate increased the probability of households choosing herder livelihood strategies.
Recent researches have primarily focused on the relationship between livelihood strategies and livelihood capital, with few empirical studies on the sensitivity of livelihood strategies to livestock production and marketization in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. This study used an income distribution approach to categorize livelihood strategies of the respondents (n 1/4 394) into three types, i.e., herder livelihood strategy (LS1), petty-herder livelihood strategy (LS2), and nonherder livelihood strategy (LS3). Using the multinomial logistic regression model, we compared livestock production and marketization across the three livelihood strategies. Our findings showed that (1) livestock production and marketization tended to favor LS1; (2) an increase in the land asset (contracted and rented grassland) and off-take rate increased the probability of households choosing LS1; (3) stocking rate was higher for LS1; and (4) the higher critical market-related risks perceived by herders were animal price and hay and corn price. Moreover, higher livestock price acted as a deterrent to diversifying into other livelihood strategies (LS2 and LS3). Finally, this study advocates for policies that will promote the land transfer market, adopt modern techniques in animal husbandry, improve the medium for disseminating market information to herders, and provide incentives for long-term livelihood transformation.
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