›› 2018, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (4): 992-1000.doi: 10.13866/j.azr.2018.04.30

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Quantitative Evaluation of Adaptive Capacity to Drought Resistance of Different Types of Farmers in Semiarid Area in Central Gansu Province:A Case Study of Yuzhong County

WANG Ting, SHI Yu-zhong,LIU Qian,WEN Teng-fei,YANG Xin-jun   

  1. (College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an 710127,Shaanxi,China)
  • Received:2017-08-19 Revised:2017-12-26 Online:2018-07-15 Published:2018-07-19

Abstract: Drought is one of the scientific issues of concern in the context of global climate change, not only affecting agricultural production, threatening farmer livelihoods, and even hindering rural sustainable development. Studying farmers’ adaptive capacity to drought can help to improve farmers’ livelihood sustainability. Chooseing the Yuzhong County as the study area, the evaluation model of farmer's adaptive capacity to drought resistance was established by means of the concept of adaptability under the social-ecological system framework (SES);Based on the livelihood characteristics of farmer survey data, the farmers were divided into subsidy-dependent,agriculture-oriented,worker-oriented,concurrent and professional type,quantitatively assessed of the adaptive capacity of rural farmers in Yuzhong County, and analyzed the influencing factors of farmers’ adaptive capacity.The results show that:①The types of farmers’ is diversification, of which the most is worker-oriented farmers, the least is professional farmers.②The overall stability of farmers’ adaptive capacity to drought resistance is poor, and there exist larger internal differences;The stability of different types of farmers’ adaptive capacity to drought resistance from high to low is: subsidy-dependent>agriculture-oriented>worker-oriented>concurrent>professional.③The barriers of farmers’ adaptive capacity to drought resistance are mainly concentrated on the five dimensions, including drought loss, natural capital, farmers’ cognition,water saving irrigation and social capital.

Key words: farmers, drought resistance, adaptive capacity, quantitative evaluation, Yuzhong County