Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2022, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (3): 636-651.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.2022.03.24

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Can poverty alleviation through agricultural e-commerce improve smallholder’s sustainable livelihood?: from perspective of agricultural product sales

WANG Cuicui1(), XIA Chunping1,*(), CAI Yi2   

  1. 1. College of Economics & Management, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
    2. College of Economics & Management,South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
  • Received:2021-03-09 Online:2022-03-25 Published:2022-03-30
  • Contact: XIA Chunping

Abstract:

In the present study, an evaluation system of smallholder’s sustainable livelihood was constructed from 3 aspects (development capacity, economic capacity and social capacity), 16 indicators, and was used to evaluate the performance of poverty alleviation through agricultural e-commerce. The weights of indicators in the constructed system were determined via combination weighting approach. Based on relative references and survey data of 252 smallholders (including both out-of-poor smallholders and poor smallholders) in Hubei Province, China, the sustainable livelihood of all samples was measured. The influencing factors on smallholder’s sustainable livelihood during poverty-alleviation through agricultural e-commerce were explored via 5 regression methods, including OLS, 2SLS, LIML, IVGMM and IV-Tobit, and the relationship and hierarchical structure of these influencing factors were revealed by ISM model. It was found that the sustainable livelihood of samples was general, with relatively higher development capacity and economic capacity and relatively lower social capacity. But, all these capacities were in need of improvement. Whether to participate in agricultural e-commerce, whether there are village cadres among relatives, public service, government support and industrial base had significant (P<0.1) impact on smallholder’s sustainable livelihood. Among them, whether to participate in agricultural e-commerce and whether there are village cadres among relatives were the surface direct influencing factors, government support and industrial base were the indirect influencing factors, and the public service was the bottom factor. The logical hierarchy of these factors could be summarized as “single drive, double path”.

Key words: agricultural e-commerce, poverty alleviation through e-commerce, farmers’ sustainable livelihood

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