Abstract

In this study, Sanming in Fujian was taken as an example and it mainly analyzed the change of farmers' livelihoods after the collective forest right system reform. The results were found that farmers’ livelihood strategy was changed from relying mainly on agricultural production to gradually focus on the accumulation and transformation, of financial capital. Moreover, principal component analysis was used to analyze which factors impacted on farmers’ livelihood. The results showed that whether having forestry right certification, forestry land quality, forestry land quantity have become the main performance of farmers livelihood changes.

Keywords:

Changes, collective forest right system reform, farmers,

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