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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Agricultural and Food Economics
Volume 9 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2025.1465868
This article is part of the Research TopicRegenerative Agriculture and Support in Changing Policy Environments: Farmers’ Rights, Contract Farming, and Navigating towards Sustainable PracticesView all 7 articles
Research on the influence of ecological specialty industry Vine tea on farmers' livelihoods in Laifeng County, China
Provisionally accepted- 1The College of Ethnology and Sociology, South-Central Minzu University, Wuhan, Hebei Province, China
- 2Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China
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The development of ecological specialty industries has emerged as a research priority in recent years.Nevertheless, there is a paucity of research that has examined the impact of the interconnection between ecological specialty industries and farmers' livelihoods. To investigate the causal relationship between the local vine tea industry and farmers' livelihoods, a case study incorporating field surveys was conducted in Laifeng County, Hubei Province. This study developed a farm household livelihood indicator system based on a sustainable livelihood analysis framework and employed a binary logit model. The findings indicate that (i) with the booming development of the vine tea industry, farmers' income has increased significantly, and the growth rate of participants is considerably higher than that of non-participants, with the highest growth rate reaching 46%; (ii) the farmers with higher incomes exhibit a greater level of livelihood capital; (iii) farmers' livelihood capitals have an impact on their willingness to participate in the vine tea industry, with varying degrees of influence observed among farmers with different income levels. This research puts forward constructive suggestions for promoting the development of vine tea specialty industry, improving farmers' livelihoods and rural revitalization.
Keywords: Vine tea industry, Rural revitalization, Livelihood capital, Livelihood strategy, Lai Feng
Received: 17 Jul 2024; Accepted: 14 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Xi, Yang, Zhang, Zhang and Ha. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Zhengli Ha, The College of Ethnology and Sociology, South-Central Minzu University, Wuhan, Hebei Province, China
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