Survey data on livelihood assets, activities and outcomes of smallholder farm households in China's Loess Plateau

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Data in Brief 39 (2021) 107638 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Data in Brief journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/dib Data Article Survey data on livelihood assets, activities and outcomes of smallholder farm households in China’s Loess Plateau Qirui Li a , b , c , d , ∗ a State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Water and Soil Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling 712100, China b Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), EberswalderStraße 84, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany c Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany d Climatology Research Group, University of Bayreuth, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 22 September 2021 Revised 26 October 2021 Accepted 22 November 2021 Available online 25 November 2021 Keywords: Land use Payments for ecosystem services Sustainable livelihood Farm typology Dryland agriculture Social-ecological systems a b s t r a c t Smallholders’ decisions on land use and their activities and strategies of livelihoods are the critical source of uncertainty in natural resource use and an essential determinant of sus- tainability challenges. This data article provides a selection of quantitative data from a questionnaire survey on liveli- hood assets, activities and outcomes of smallholder farm households in Yan’he Township, which lies in the middle part of China’s Loess Plateau, one of the representative Grain for Green Project areas [1] . Data include land-use decisions and agronomic practices, fertilisation, use of pesticides, ma- chine and irrigation, farm and non-farm activities, financial performance, and the levels of household income, wellness, and total consumption of food, energy, and education and health care. The survey also covered geographical, demo- graphic and socioeconomic background information on the respondents and their… Read the full text about 3,097 words