The previous research on farmers' entrepreneurial behavior involves many fields, but seldom systematically theoretic analysis has even been formed.This paper reviews the previous research from the perspectives of the relationship between environmental features, individual traits and farmers' entrepreneurial behavior.And then it compares domestic and foreign research of the relationship among environmental features, the interaction of individual traits and farmers' entrepreneurial behavior, explains the different background and development status quo of farmers' entrepreneurial behavior research, and presents two frameworks of farmers' entrepreneurial behavior research, namely the multi-factor entrepreneurship research based on entrepreneurial resources and the entrepreneurship process research based on entrepreneurial opportunities, to provide the reference for developing farmers' entrepreneurial behavior research in China.