Impact Assessment of Farmland Lease-Out on Rural Households’ Livelihood Capital and Livelihood Strategy
Hui Xiao; Jianxiu Xiao; Fangting Xie
Rapid urbanization and the gradual disappearance of urban and rural barriers have accelerated rural surplus labor migration. This study focused on the rural household&rsquo:s livelihood from the perspective of farmland lease-out. Using 382 rural households&rsquo: data in Jiangxi Province, we used the seemingly unrelated regression and binary logistic models to analyze the impact of farmland lease-out on rural households&rsquo: livelihood capital and livelihood strategy. The results indicated that farmland lease-out did not affect rural households&rsquo: human capital but had a negative impact on social capital, natural capital and future life expectation, and had a positive impact on financial capital and physical capital. Farmland lease-out had a significant negative impact on agricultural pluriactivity-type livelihood strategies, while having a significant positive impact on off-farm employment livelihood strategies. In addition, the scale of farmland lease-out had a positive impact on the off-farm pluriactivity and off-farm employment livelihood strategies.
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