Labor productivity of small-scale agriculture and its influence on agricultural landscape conservation in mountainous areas in China: a case study of rice farming in Hani terraced region

doi:10.1007/s11356-020-08815-z

	Labor productivity of small-scale agriculture and its influence on agricultural landscape conservation in mountainous areas in China: a case study of rice farming in Hani terraced region
	Zhang, Yongxun 1; He, Lulu 1,2; Liu, Longteng 3; Min, Qingwen 4
刊名	ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
	2020-04-18
页码	12
关键词	Labor productivity Hani terraces Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Terraced landscape Livelihood strategy
ISSN号	0944-1344
DOI	10.1007/s11356-020-08815-z
通讯作者	Zhang, Yongxun(zhangyongxun@caas.cn) ; Liu, Longteng(liult@cafs.ac.cn) ; Min, Qingwen(minqw@igsnrr.ac.cn)
英文摘要	Small-scale agriculture (SA) is regarded as unsustainability because of its low benefit. To protect traditional agricultural landscapes like terraces through SA will be difficult. However, in China, terraces are still maintained well by smallholders now. This study takes the family as a basic unit and SA in Hani terraced region as an object to explore its sustainability from the perspective of labor productivity (LP) through the questionnaire method. The findings are that peasant households work on both farm and non-farm jobs. They get a low income (3854.5 yuan RMB) from hybrid-rice-cropping and a high income (44,665.8 yuan RMB) from non-farm jobs but spend a small part of labors (34.23 person center dot days) in growing hybrid-rice and expended lots of labor (522 person center dot days) for non-farm jobs. In conclusion, LP of hybrid-rice-cropping is 1.32 times that of non-farm jobs for a household. The result shows SA in Hani terraced region has a higher return of labor investment than non-farm jobs. It is different from the common impression of the low benefit of SA and also explains why SA still continues to exist in the mountainous area in China now. However, SA in Hani terraced region also faces challenges with salary level rise of non-farm jobs and part-time farmers' requirement for living quality improvement. In the future, promoting industrial integration development in this region to add local employment for improving farmers' income is a feasible approach to protect terraced landscapes.
资助项目	Natural Science Foundation of China[7191101138] ; Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Project of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences[CAAS-ASTIP-IAED-2020-06]
WOS关键词	URBAN MIGRANT WORKERS ; LAND-USE ; DRIVING FORCES ; EMPLOYMENT ; FRAGMENTATION ; URBANIZATION ; IMPACTS ; CULTURE ; JIANGSU ; SYSTEMS
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
语种	英语
出版者	SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
WOS记录号	WOS:000527505000002
资助机构	Natural Science Foundation of China ; Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Project of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/159888]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Zhang, Yongxun; Liu, Longteng; Min, Qingwen
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Agr Sci, Inst Agr Econ & Dev, 12 Zhongguancun South St, Beijing 100081, Peoples R China 2.China Agr Univ, Coll Humanities & Dev Studies, 2 Yuanmingyuan West Rd, Beijing 100094, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Fishery Sci, 150 Qingta Village, Beijing 100141, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, Yongxun,He, Lulu,Liu, Longteng,et al. Labor productivity of small-scale agriculture and its influence on agricultural landscape conservation in mountainous areas in China: a case study of rice farming in Hani terraced region[J]. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH,2020:12.
APA	Zhang, Yongxun,He, Lulu,Liu, Longteng,&Min, Qingwen.(2020).Labor productivity of small-scale agriculture and its influence on agricultural landscape conservation in mountainous areas in China: a case study of rice farming in Hani terraced region.ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH,12.
MLA	Zhang, Yongxun,et al."Labor productivity of small-scale agriculture and its influence on agricultural landscape conservation in mountainous areas in China: a case study of rice farming in Hani terraced region".ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH (2020):12.