Study site description: Yan River Basin, China

Table of Contents

1. Responsible partner
2. General information
3. Bio-physical description
4. Socio-economic description
   1. Population density and structure
   2. Level and sources of income main stakeholder groups
   3. Impacts of land degradation on the livelihood of people
   4. Major challenges of existing land resource management
   5. Major drivers of main land degradation processes
5. Institutional and political setting
6. Relevant end-users / stakeholder groups

Level and sources of income main stakeholder groups

The average income of local farmers 465, 1044, 1270 and 1277 RMB Yuan per capita in 1990, 1995, 2000 and 2002 respectively in Baota County. More and more income of farmers is coming from sub-industry and service, such as transportation, construction, business. The average income is 225 RMB Yuan, 786 RMB Yuan, 855 RMB Yuan and 987 RMB Yuan in 1990, 1995, 2000 and 2002 respectively.

The income of local farmers is very low from the land. In Baota County, the net income increased slowly from 703 RMB Yuan per capita in 1993 to 1640 RMB Yuan per capita (Figure 8).

Figure 8: The net income change of Baota County