THE STRENGTH AND DIRECTION OF THE LINKAGE BETWEEN RURAL ASSETS AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION IN UPLAND AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES

Upland bear many different social properties as compare to lowland. It also plays an important ecological role in conserving and buffering its surrounding area. This area has been threatened by agricultural practices that threat its sustainability(6). Indeed, environmentally unfriendly agriculture has resulted an environmental degradation. Such degradation is related with five types of capital of the rural/livelihood assets(3). Framework of capacity-environmental degradation was used to asses this linkage(8). Data is collected by questionnaire. Multiple-linear regression was the tool of analyses used. The multiple-linear regression model does a good job in explaining the linkage between rural assets and agricultural-environmental degradation. Human capital and financial capital are the dominant factors that affect farmer's decision and, agricultural-environmental degradation respectively.