Public-private partnership in enhancing farmers’ adaptation to drought: Insights from the Lujiang Flatland in the Nu River (Upper Salween) valley, China
Public-private partnership in enhancing farmers’ adaptation to drought: Insights from the Lujiang Flatland in the Nu River (Upper Salween) valley, China
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公私合作增强农民对干旱的适应能力：来自中国怒江（萨尔温江上游）流域庐江平原的见解
DOI：
10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.11.034
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发表时间：
2018-02
期刊：
影响因子：
7.1
通讯作者：
Neera Shrestha Pradhan
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作者：
Liyun Zhang;Jinming Hu;Yanbo Li;Neera Shrestha Pradhan
农业是土地利用的重要类型，但遭受干旱，特别是在全球气候变化的情况下。尽管政府是帮助农民适应干旱的主要参与者，但缺乏资金限制了其努力。PPP （public - private Partnership，公私合作伙伴关系）机制已被广泛应用于城市基础设施建设，为公共产品和服务筹集资金，但很少有研究探讨其在农村地区的作用。本文通过对怒江流域庐江平原139户农户的访谈，以及对村长、政府官员和企业代表的开放式访谈，揭示PPP模式在提高农民干旱适应能力中的作用。我们发现，农民已经以自己的方式制定了多种适应干旱的策略，包括抽水和储水、采用节水灌溉技术、更换作物和加强社区层面的水资源管理，而资金不足、水资源稀缺以及作物生长与干旱时间尺度的不匹配甚至阻碍了他们的适应选择。资金来源有限，政策执行差距大，政府资助项目绩效不佳，阻碍了政府支持的有效性。民营企业支持农民适应干旱的积极性不高，缺乏农民的信任，限制了民营企业的参与。PPP机制有潜力从多个来源调动资金，在不同利益相关者之间分担成本、风险和收益，结合科学知识和地方知识，并通过正式和非正式制度减少不确定性。受益于这些优势，PPP机制可以提高项目绩效，从而增加农民的适应选择和抗旱能力。该研究为农业发展，特别是气候变暖条件下易受异常干旱和周期性干旱影响的山地社区的农业发展提供了参考教训和宝贵见解。
Agriculture is an important type of land use but suffers from drought, especially under global climate change scenarios. Although government is a major actor in helping farmers to adapt to drought, lack of funds has constrained its efforts. Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mechanism has been widely applied in urban infrastructure development to raise fund for public goods and services, but very few studies explored its role in rural areas. Based on interview of 139 farming households and open-ended interview of village heads, government officials and company representatives, in the Lujiang Flatland in the Nu River (Upper Salween) Valley, Southwest China, this paper aims to reveal how PPP functions to enhance farmers' adaptation to drought. We found that farmers have developed multiple strategies in their own ways to adapt to drought, including pumping and store water, using water-saving irrigation techniques, changing of crops, and strengthening water management at the community level, while insufficient funds, water resource scarcity and mismatch of time-scale of crop growth and drought even hindered their adaptation options. Limited fund sources, gap in policy implementation and weak performance of government-funded projects hindered governmental supports to be effective. Weak motivation and distrusted by farmers limited the engagement of private enterprises in supporting farmers to adapt to drought. PPP mechanism has the potential to mobilize fund from multiple sources, share costs, risks and benefits among different stakeholders, combine both scientific and local knowledge, and reduce uncertainty through formal and informal institutions. Benefited from these advantages, PPP mechanism could improve project performance, thus increase farmers’ adaptation options and resilience to drought. This study offers referential lessons and valuable insights for agricultural development, especially for mountain communities vulnerable to exceptional and recurrent drought episodes under warming climate.
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