Linking smallholders' livelihood resilience with their adaptation strategies to climate impacts
Insights from the Tibetan Plateau
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4829290 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Xinjun He (Southwest University), Jianzhong Yan (0000-0001-8284-7907, Southwest University), Liang Emlyn Yang (0000-0003-4414-4009, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Liang Yang (0000-0002-6576-332X), Junying Wang (0000-0002-7962-6641, Chongqing Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources), Hong Zhou (0000-0001-8122-7300, Southwest University), Xue Lin (0000-0002-9768-4992, Southwest University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Conservation Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1195-5449 • E-ISSN: 1708-3087 |
| Publisher | Resilience Alliance (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.5751/es-14639-290207 |
| OpenAlex | W4396941637 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 54 |
Adaptation and livelihood resilience are two key concepts for understanding the climate change process of smallholder farmers, but the relationships between them are not well understood. In this paper, with supporting data from household questionnaire surveys in four regions of the Tibetan Plateau (n = 1552), we aim to explore the relationships between smallholder farmers’ climate adaptation and livelihood resilience. Based on existing studies, we developed a conceptual framework to integrate adaptation and livelihood resilience, and constructed a quantitative indicator system to measure livelihood resilience. The adaptation measures adopted by smallholders were classified into stepping out (SO) and stepping up (SU) strategies, and the livelihood resilience of smallholders with different adaptation strategies was calculated and compared using one-way analysis of variance. The multinomial logit (mlogit) model was used to examine the factors influencing the adoption of different adaptation strategies by smallholders. The results showed that the livelihood resilience of smallholders who adopted adaptation strategies was higher than that of those who did not, while the livelihood resilience of smallholders who adopted SO strategies was higher than that of those who adopted SU strategies. The mlogit model reported the factors that influence the adoption of different adaptation strategies by smallholders: household size, health conditions, number of cropland plots, agricultural equipment, number of livestock, and nonagricultural income. These indicators play different roles in the adoption of different adaptation strategies by smallholders. In particular, local government interventions (credit, cooperatives, training) are not only an important component of smallholders’ livelihood resilience, but also important determinants of their livelihood strategies. Based on our findings, it is recommended that the government should promote smallholders’ adaptation and strengthen their livelihood resilience to climate change by expanding the coverage of credit, cooperatives, and training, diversifying the forms of cooperatives, enriching the content of training, and increasing the frequency of training
Agriculture · Agroforestry · Business · Climate change · Climate change adaptation · Economics · Environmental resource management · Geography · Livelihood · Natural resource economics · Agricultural risk and resilience · Climate change impacts on agriculture · Environmental Science · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Ecology
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |