Do non-pastoral employment and grassland transfer promote livestock reduction?Take typical pastoral areas of Qinghai province as an example
Paying attention to labor transfer market and grassland transfer market is one of the im-portant ways to encourage farmers to reduce livestock.Based on the survey data of 393 house-holds in 6 townships of Henan Mongolian Autonomous county in,Qinghai province,OLS regres-sion model was adopted to quantitatively analyze the current situation of labor transfer market and grassland transfer market in pastoral areas,and empirically study the influence of non-pasto-ral employment and grassland transfer on livestock reduction behavior of pastoral households,and further examine the heterogeneity of the influence.The results showed that the non-pastoral employment level of labor force in pastoral areas was relatively low,mainly local non-pastoral employment,and the grassland transfer market was relatively perfect,so the transfer-in grassland market was more active.The empirical results showed that non-pastoral employment in other ar-ea and transfer-out of grassland had significant livestock reduction effects,and the livestock re-duction effects were more obvious for younger and more educated pastoral households.At the same time,the higher the non-pastoral employment income,the more likely they are to adopt the behavior of reducing livestock.Therefore,increasing the non-pastoral employment income is an important way to promote livestock reduction.Finally,as a voluntary selection behavior of herd-ers,when the grassland is freely transferred and traded among different herders,the optimal allo-cation of resources between different herders will be realized,and the rational distribution of the carrying amount of livestock in the herders group will be finally realized,so as to achieve the real balance between grassland and livestock.
non-pastoral employmentgrassland transferlivestock reductionpastoral area
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