Agriculture, livestock, and aquaculture activities play an
important role in the livelihood of the rural population in the Yel-
low River Delta. Yet, as presented before, not many respondents
answered ‘farmer’ to the question: ‘What is your job’. It soon
became clear that the answer to the question ‘what is your job’ does
not necessarily correspond to whether the respondents farm crops
or not. In fact, a total of 74% of all respondents farm crops, hold
livestock, or have aquaculture activities (see Fig. 8A). Agri-, and
aquaculture activities are mostly conducted (by 93% of the re-
spondents that either farm crop, hold livestock, or do aquaculture
activities, n 1⁄4 68) on a small scale (e.g. limited to family employees
or for feeding the family) with, presumably, little economic gain.