Research On Capacity Building In The Process Of Rural Anti-Poverty

As the country’s major provinces of poverty, Gansu Province has been working hard to improve the basic production and living conditions of farmers over these years, and made a great effort on anti-poverty work. However, because of the complexity of Gansu Province’s poverty problem, the poverty hasn’t been effectively resolved during a long time, the poverty rate and back into poverty rate in the country remains high.By absorbing and referring to the domestic and foreign scholars’ anti-poverty theory, this paper bring forward the concept of capability poverty and a functional research paradigm, Then summarize the reason of farmers’ poverty into the following three aspects. Firstly, poverty is due to the inadequate of poor farmers "basic capabilities" which their family or themselves should have to earn money; Secondly, the social environment cannot help poor farmers to improve and effectively use their basic capabilities, which means the "capabilities of environment" is not perfect; Thirdly, there isn’t effective connection between the "basic capabilities" and the "capabilities of environment", so the environmental role can not be accurately implemented up to the farmer’s capabilities construction, which means the "mechanism of promoting capabilities" isn’t sound.In the theoretical framework of the capability poverty, this paper based on the investigation of 18 sample villages in Gansu Province, using qualitative and quantitative research methods to analyse the "basic capabilities","capabilities of environment" and "mechanism of promoting capabilities". The analysis is from the family (individual) level, environment level, factor level and system level. This paper argues that the farmers "basic capabilities" is the root causes of poverty in rural areas of Gansu Province. Therefore, the anti-poverty work should focus on improving their own "basic capabilities" by perfecting the capabilities of the environment and promotion mechanism. Based on this conclusion, we propose policy recommendations work in rural poverty in Gansu Province, in order to provide a reference point theory and practical basis for rural poverty in Gansu Province.