TITLE:
The Dilemma and Adjustment of Livelihood Change in Tibetan Area in Sichuan—A Case Study of Chikalo Village, Aba County
AUTHORS:
Asha
KEYWORDS:
Livelihood Change, Marketization, Economic Rationality, Ecology
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.9 No.4,
April
27,
2021
ABSTRACT: What
changes have taken place in the livelihood of farmers and herdsmen in Tibetan
areas of Sichuan? In the long run, what is the problem with the changed
livelihood model? This paper found the answer based on a field survey of villages.
The author found that in the research process, the new compound livelihood mode
of villages, such as farmland leasing, large-scale animal husbandry and
concentrated extraction of medicinal materials, was not sustainable, and the
villagers’ destructive use of local resources without any technical processing
accelerated the consumption of grassland and farmland resources, breaking the
ecological balance maintained by the local traditional livelihood. When income
from animal husbandry and medicinal materials collection is dominant, problems
such as unstable market, sharp decrease of medicinal materials resources, reduced
yield and quality of grassland will only lead to uncertainty and high risk of
new compound livelihood model of villages, and even lead to poverty.