Relation between ecological environment and farmer poverty and the anti-poverty countermeasures of minority nationality areas in Gansu Province

Ecological environment degradation and farmer poverty have become important constraint factors for the sustainable development of social-economy in minority nationality areas in Gansu Province. As a case study in the Linxia Minority Nationality Areas of Gansu Province and according to ecological, economic and social characteristics of minority nationality areas in Linxia, this study analyzed the current situation of ecological environment deterioration and features of multidimensional poverty of ecological, economic, intellectual and institutional. The present study also investigated the interaction between the farmer poverty and ecological environment deterioration and put forward anti-poverty countermeasures of ecological environment protection and farmer increase income under the condition of ecological compensation from the perspective of sustainable development in minority nationality areas in Linxia of Gansu Province.