Wu, X., Zhang, Q., Ma, H. et al. (1 more author) (2024) Off-farm employment and multidimensional poverty: empirical evidences from the Yellow River Basin in China. Ciência Rural, 54 (1). e20220367. ISSN 0103-8478
Abstract
As an essential way to enhance farmers’ self-development ability, off-farm employment plays an indispensable role in farmers’ multidimensional poverty reduction in many countries. Employing a survey of 1926 farmers in five provinces of the Yellow River Basin in China, this paper examined the multi-dimensional poverty reduction effect of off-farm employment and the heterogeneous influence of different dimensions of off-farm employment (modes, levels, distances and frequency). The results showed that (1) although absolute poverty in the income dimension was largely eliminated in the Yellow River Basin, the poverty in social resources, transportation facilities, employment security were the key bottlenecks restricting farmers’ self-development. (2) The province with the best multidimensional poverty reduction effect for non-farm employment was Shaanxi, with the largest contribution to employment security. (3) Improving off-farm employment level, distance and time can significantly alleviate the multi-dimensional poverty of farmers. Therefore, to lessen the multi-dimensional poverty of farmers in the Yellow River Basin, it is necessary to focus on the governance of multi-dimensional key poverty-stricken areas, such as the middle and upper courses of the Yellow River, adopting multidimensional poverty alleviation strategy of off-farm employment according to local conditions, working on the farmers’ deficiencies in social resources, mobility, employment security, and deepening the effect of off-farm employment on benefiting farmers and helping the poor.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Universidade Federal de Santa Maria 2023. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. |
Keywords: | off-farm employment; multidimensional poverty; farmers; Yellow River Basin |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Work and Employment Relation Division (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 02 Aug 2023 15:11 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 16:09 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0103-8478cr20220367 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Universidade Federal de Santa Maria |
Identification Number: | 10.1590/0103-8478cr20220367 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:201791 |