Comparison and Analysis of the Methods for Measuring the Sustainability of Farmers' Livelihoods
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The sustainability of farmers' livelihood is essential for studying farmers' welfare. This article defines the connotation of farmers' livelihood sustainability and sorts out the latest research trends on farmers' livelihood sustainability. On this basis, this paper further analyzes the theoretical framework of farmers' sustainable livelihoods, including three aspects: the dimensions of farmers' sustainable livelihoods measurement, the index system, and the types of measurement results. At the same time, this article discusses the measurement methods of rural households' sustainable livelihoods from two perspectives: descriptive measurement and inferential measurement. Finally, this article analyzes the sustainable decomposition methods of farmers' livelihoods from a subjective and objective perspective. The finding indicates that we can measure the sustainability of rural households' livelihoods more comprehensively and systematically. This study adopts a combination of descriptive and inferential measurement methods, which has the flexibility of the two methods with the advantages of easy quantification.
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