Evaluating the Ecological Sustainability of Agrifood Land in Ethnic Minority Areas: A Comparative Study in Yunnan China

Agrifood land plays a crucial role in indigenous communities. However, there is limited study on the overall sustainability and inter-ethnic comparison of agrifood lands across ethnic groups. To address these gaps, we developed visual eco-efficiency framework ecological footprint, biocapacity, benefit to evaluate regions, as well analyzed examined its explanatory factors six groups Yunnan Province China. The results showed that benefits fluctuated low deficit, different varied significantly, from 2010 2020. Moreover, redundancy analysis cash crops, forestry, fishery, livestock were major contributors groups, rather than commonly accepted staple foods. Another finding revealed contribution urbanization rate agricultural food had rule reversed U was influenced by annual average temperature population rate. Our not only provided for evaluating areas but also shed new light served scientific foundation investigation, monitoring, management agriculture governments sectors.