Rural Household Livelihood and Tree Plantation Dependence in the Central Mountainous Region of Hainan Island, China: Implications for Poverty Alleviation

被引:24
作者
Li, Ruida [1 ,2 ]
Zheng, Hua [1 ,2 ]
Zhang, Cuiping [3 ]
Keeler, Bonnie [4 ]
Samberg, Leah H. [5 ,6 ]
Li, Cong [7 ]
Polasky, Stephen [8 ]
Ni, Yongming [9 ]
Ouyang, Zhiyun [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Chinese Acad Sci, State Key Lab Urban & Reg Ecol, Res Ctr Ecoenvironm Sci, Beijing 100085, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
[3] Environm Sci Inst Hainan, Haikou 571126, Hainan, Peoples R China
[4] Humphrey Sch Publ Affairs, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[5] Univ Minnesota, Inst Environm, St Paul, MN 55108 USA
[6] Rainforest Alliance, New York, NY 10279 USA
[7] Xi An Jiao Tong Univ, Sch Econ & Finance, Xian 710061, Shaanxi, Peoples R China
[8] Univ Minnesota, Dept Appl Econ, St Paul, MN 55108 USA
[9] Beijing Museum Nat Hist, Beijing 100050, Peoples R China
来源
FORESTS | 2020年 / 11卷 / 02期
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
sustainable household livelihood; poverty alleviation; plantation management; ecosystem services; Hainan Island; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; INCOME; CONSERVATION; FORESTS; FRAMEWORK; PROGRAM; IMPACT; DIVERSIFICATION; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITIES;
D O I
10.3390/f11020248
中图分类号
S7 [林业];
学科分类号
0829 ; 0907 ;
摘要
Plantations support local economies and rural livelihoods in many mountainous regions, where poverty and a fragile environment are often interlinked. Managing plantations sustainably and alleviating poverty is a major challenge. This study reports on the findings of a household livelihood survey in the central mountainous region of Hainan Island, a global biodiversity hotspot. The survey aimed to identify rural household livelihoods, strategies to lift rural households out of poverty and potential environmental consequences of different livelihood strategies. Households were divided into five groups based on their main source of income: plantations, crops, livestock, local off-farm income and remittances. Plantations were the main source of income for 74% of households and provided 46% of the total income. Plantation land area, planting diverse tree species and intercropping were significantly associated with higher income. Reallocating land by family size could increase the proportion of households above the poverty line in the plantation group from 51.3% to 85.3%, while making only 3.3% of households worse off. Lower income households tended to apply more chemicals to plantations, which suggests that they create more strain on the environment. Improving household income through dynamically allocating plantation land and diversifying planted species could therefore be beneficial both socially and environmentally. Our results emphasize the importance of dynamic plantation land allocation and diverse plantation planting in poverty alleviation and environmental sustainability.
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