Specialization or diversification? The situation and transition of households' livelihood in agricultural heritage systems

doi:10.1080/14735903.2018.1537669

	Specialization or diversification? The situation and transition of households' livelihood in agricultural heritage systems
	Yang, Lun 1,2; Liu, Moucheng 1,2; Min, Qingwen 1,2; Li, Wenhua 1,2
刊名	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY
	2018-11-02
卷号	16 期号:6 页码:455-471
关键词	Agricultural heritage systems sustainable livelihood strategy livelihood asset Tibetan plateau
ISSN号	1473-5903
DOI	10.1080/14735903.2018.1537669
通讯作者	Liu, Moucheng(liumc@igsnrr.ac.cn)
英文摘要	Zhagana Agriculture-Forest-Animal Husbandry Composite System (ZCS) is the first Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems site in the Tibetan Plateau. Similar to many traditional agricultural regions, with the development of tourism and leisure agriculture, the peasant households in ZCS have gradually changed their livelihood strategies and livelihood activities in the past 10 years, resulting in the disappearance of some traditional farming methods and agricultural landscapes with a long history. By taking livelihood assets as the entry point and livelihood strategies as the core, this paper analyzed the basic situation of households' livelihood and the transition mechanism of different livelihood strategies in order to offer suggestions for the dynamic conservation and sustainable development of Agricultural Heritage Systems (AHS). (1) The livelihood strategies of peasant households in ZCS can be divided into two major categories: specialized strategies and diversified strategies. (2) According to the empirical calculation of the livelihood asset accounting framework of AHS, the average livelihood asset value of peasant households in ZCS is 2.040, showing that the situation of peasant households' livelihood is inadequate. (3) The transition of peasant households' livelihood strategies from traditional strategy to specialized or diversified livelihood strategies is mainly influenced by natural assets, human assets, cultural assets, social assets and informational assets. In order to meet the growing material and spiritual needs of peasant households and achieve the sustainable development of ZCS simultaneously, it is suggested that the agriculture-forestry-animal husbandry-tourism composite strategies shall be taken as the development direction of peasant households' livelihood strategies.
WOS关键词	LAND-USE ; DECISION-MAKING ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; STRATEGIES ; ADAPTATION ; DYNAMICS ; FARMERS ; FERTILIZERS ; LANDSCAPE ; NITROGEN
WOS研究方向	Agriculture ; Science & Technology - Other Topics
语种	英语
出版者	TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
WOS记录号	WOS:000451595700002
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/51516]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Liu, Moucheng
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yang, Lun,Liu, Moucheng,Min, Qingwen,et al. Specialization or diversification? The situation and transition of households' livelihood in agricultural heritage systems[J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY,2018,16(6):455-471.
APA	Yang, Lun,Liu, Moucheng,Min, Qingwen,&Li, Wenhua.(2018).Specialization or diversification? The situation and transition of households' livelihood in agricultural heritage systems.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY,16(6),455-471.
MLA	Yang, Lun,et al."Specialization or diversification? The situation and transition of households' livelihood in agricultural heritage systems".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY 16.6(2018):455-471.