Abstract
Meteorological disasters and COVID-19 bring significant risks to the livelihood of farmers on the Loess Plateau. How to improve the livelihood resilience has become the key for farmers to resist the epidemic and prevent the return to poverty. This study analysis under the double exposure of meteorological disasters and COVID-19, the main path that farmers cognition and adaptation behavior affect livelihood resilience, from the buffer ability, self-organization ability, learning ability, transformation ability and medical ability, we built the evaluation index system of farmers livelihood resilience, analysis the main risk of the Loess Plateau farmers livelihood, and further test the inner mechanism that farmers adapt to livelihood resilience. On this basis, six models are established to test the action path of farmers ‘risk cognition, adaptive behavior affecting their livelihood resilience. The results show that different risks under meteorological disasters and COVID-19 have different effects on livelihood resilience; farmers’ cognition and adaptive behavior have positive effects on livelihood resilience; and adaptive behavior has intermediary effect in the process of farmers’ cognition affecting livelihood resilience. Therefore, to evaluate livelihood resilience, improving farmers’ cognitive level, and encouraging farmers to actively adaptation are the main ways to improve farmers’ livelihood resilience. This paper proposes that farmers should improve their risk awareness, participate in skills training, village collectives should strengthen the publicity and promote agricultural production technology and skills, and formulate relevant policies according to local conditions to improve the resilience of farmers’ livelihood.
Presenters
Jianjun HuaiProfessor, Economics, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Shanxi, China
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
Meteorologic Disasters; Covid-19; Livelihood Resilience; Farmer's Cognition; Adaptive Behavior
