Study On The Adaptability Of Farmers Under Rocky Desertification Control

Rocky desertification comprehensive control project is a major ecological restoration project and livelihood protection project in China,and is a major measure to achieve sustainable livelihood and accurate poverty alleviation in the region.Farmers,as participants and beneficiaries of the comprehensive rocky desertification control project,are bound to face the opportunities and challenges brought by the implementation of the project.From the perspective of farmers’ sustainable livelihood,this paper analyzes their adaptability to the comprehensive control project of rocky desertification,and studies how the stability of farmers’ sustainable livelihood can be maintained and the adaptability of farmers can occur under the interference of rural society and ecosystem.Based on the adaptive theory,this paper discusses the cognitive ability and learning ability Starting with the five dimensions of force,buffer ability,transformation ability and stability ability,the framework of farmers’ adaptability analysis under the background of comprehensive control of rocky desertification is constructed.According to the livelihood structure,the farmers are divided into different adaptation types,the entropy weight TOPSIS method is used to evaluate the adaptability of different types of farmers,the obstacle degree model is used to identify the main influencing factors that restrict the improvementof farmers’ adaptability,and the mechanism of farmers’ rational choice and adaptation behavior is analyzed.The main findings are as follows:(1)The change of farmers’ livelihood in Huanjiang County under the comprehensive control project of rocky desertification is mainly reflected in the increase of non-agricultural livelihood such as workers’ and government subsidies,while the traditional agricultural planting and animal husbandry have decreased to a certain extent,migrant workers are the preferred adaptation countermeasures for farmers,and the combination of characteristic planting and breeding with seasonal going out or local workers is an important auxiliary adaptation countermeasure.(2)Under the comprehensive control project of rocky desertification,the types of farmers’ adaptation can be divided into five types:worker-oriented,planting-oriented,breeding-oriented,traditional-agricultur e-oriented and social-support-type.The number of households with various types of adaptation is: worker-oriented(113),farming-oriented(65),planting-oriented(59),traditional agriculture-oriented(32)and social security-based(6).(3)There are obvious differences in the adaptability of different types of peasant households,from high to low: planting leading type >breeding leading type > worker leading type > traditional agriculture type > social security support type.The cultivation-led farmers and the farming-led farmers are at a high level in their cognitive ability,bufferingability and adaptive ability;the workers-led farmers have excellent learning ability and transformation ability;the traditional agricultural farmers have low ability to be influenced by the traditional farming ideas;and the social security-supported farmers have the lowest ability of all kinds.(4)The obstacle factors affecting the adaptability of all kinds of farmers show the characteristics of general convergence and individual differences.The main obstacle factors affecting the adaptability of different types of farmers include the diversity of income sources,the degree of government support,the opportunities of vocational skills training,the per capita cultivated land area and the per capita annual income.(5)Based on the analysis of behavioral logic theory from the perspective of sociology,it is found that the contradiction between the decrease of natural capital of farmers and the needs of farmers’ survival caused by the comprehensive control project of rocky desertification is the root cause of adaptive behavior,the adaptability is the decisive factor of farmers’ rational choice,the survival rationality,economic rationality and social rationality are the internal motivation of farmers’ adaptive behavior and adaptability difference,and the government’s policy of helping them is the external thrust of farmers’ adaptive countermeasures.