Measuring farmers' sustainable livelihood resilience in the context of poverty alleviation: a case study from Fugong County, China

This study investigates farmers' sustainable livelihood resilience in the context of poverty alleviation, focusing on Fugong County, China. An analytical framework encompassing buffer capacity, self-organization capacity, and learning capacity is developed, along with an index system and a cloud-model-based multi-level fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model. The study finds heterogeneous spatial and temporal distributions of resilience, with synergistic development among the three capacity dimensions. A decision tree method classifies villages into various resilience states (stable promotion, benign promotion, stagnation, mild recession, severe recession, or chaotic period), highlighting the need for targeted policy interventions.

Yue Sun, Yanhui Wang, Chong Huang, Ruhua Tan, Junhao Cai