| Farmers willingness of participating in rocky desertification control in karst areas directly relates thesuccess of current desertification control. Guizhou Province is a typical karst area, and the focal region in this study.Based on survey data collected from 399 farmers, a Logistic regression model was used to analyze the influencingfactors including personal characteristics, family characteristics, land resource characteristics and others (33variables) from both internal and external factors. We found that farmers willingness of participating in rockydesertification control in karst areas was strong, indicating that famers had high motivation to participate indesertification control. 10 variables including gender, age, village cadres, party membership, training of rockydesertification control and so on, affected farmers willingness of participating in rocky desertification control in karstareas. In order to control rocky desertification better in karst area, policies should concentrate on strengthening partyorganization in rural area, improving the training of desertification control, intensifying propaganda, increasing theyoung farmers爷attention to desertification control. |
