Background Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) addresses the challenge of meeting the
growing demand for food, fibre and fuel, despite the changing climate and fewer …

Remittances—funds sent by migrants to family and friends back home—are an important
source of global monetary flows, and they have implications for the maintenance and …

As an important representation of the evolution of the rural human–land relationship in the
process of urban–rural transformation development, labor migration between rural and …

Farmers' livelihood and land have been the focus of academic and political attention for a
long time. In the process of rapid urbanization in China, as farmers change their livelihood …

Although numerous studies have been conducted on the relationship between livelihood
assets and strategies, only a few quantitative studies exist on the topic for anti-poverty …

Community forestry (CF) is one of the major forest management modalities in the world. A
growing body of literature documents various outcomes and interactions of people with CF …

Purpose Previous studies focused on the influence of outsourcing (labor division) on
productivity, especially in the industrial economy. However, few studies have focused on …

Since the late 1990s, massive rural out-migration has had a significant impact on the
utilization of cultivated land. However, the links between rural out-migration and arable land …

Humans have changed most of the terrestrial surface by changing land-use and land-cover.
The spatial distribution and extent of land-cover changes have been studied and mapped …

Based on the theory of New Economic of Labor Migration (NELM) and Induced
Technological Change, this study takes 935 part-time households in the Loess Plateau …