Does the Increase in Herdsmen's Income Depend on Overgrazing?
The study used the household survey data from six banners(Plain and Bordered White Ban-ner,Bordered Yellow Banner,Sonid Left Banner,Sonid Right Banner,East Ujimuqin Banner and Xilin-hot City)in XilinGol League,Inner Mongolia,with a total of 381 households,to analyzed the overgrazing rates and operating income of herdsmen in different banner/city and scales,to elucidate the relationship between overgrazing rates and the main attributes features of herdsmen,to explore the linkage path between overgrazing and herdsmen's income,and to answer the intrinsic motivations of herdsmen for over-grazing.The results showed that the income of herdsmen mainly came from animal husbandry,accounting for 84.40%-90.09%of the operating income of herdsmen in each region.The overgrazing rate of small-scale herdsmen(Standard grassland area less than 35.4 hm2)was 84.30%,and the average overgrazing rate was 76.88%,which was significantly higher than that of medium-scale herdsmen(Standard grassland area between 35.4 and 106.5 hm2)and large-scale herdsmen(Standard grassland area more than 106.5 hm2).The overgrazing rate of medium-scale and large-scale herdsmen was 64.85%and 45.26%,with overgraz-ing rate of 18.81%and 2.46%,respectively.The overgrazing rate was significantly positively correlated with the operating income of herdsmen.Overall,small-scale herdsmen were the main body of overgrazing,and their income was strongly dependent on overgrazing,through overgrazing,they can reach a level close to the total operating income of medium-scale herdsmen.The increase of medium-scale and large-scale pasto-ral herdsmen's income mainly depended on contracted grassland area.In view of this,it was proposed that the current implementation of grassland ecological protection subsidy and reward policy should focus on the income of small-scale herdsmen,in order to reduce their overgrazing risk as the starting point,reshape the subsidy policy mechanism,and reconstruct the subsidy standard pattern.
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