Common Property Resources and the Dynamics of Rural Poverty in India's Dry Regions

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1904
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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Jodha, Narpat S.
Conference:	Reinventing the Commons, the Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property
Location:	Bodoe, Norway
Conf. Date:	May 24-28, 1995
Date:	1995
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1904
Sector:	Social Organization
Region:	Middle East & South Asia
Subject(s):	common pool resources poverty households
Abstract:	"Despite a rapid decline in their area and productivity, common property resources constitute an important component of community assets in the dry areas of India (Bromley and Cernea, 1989; Magrath, 1986; Ostrom, 1988) and are one of the community's responses to the scarcities and stresses created by agroclimatic conditions. They are sources of a range of physical products, offer employment and income generation opportunities and provide broader social and ecological benefits. "This article first, presents village-level evidence regarding the dependence of poor households on common property resources, a second section comments on their decline and the causal factors, while the final section examines public interventions involving the rural poor and common property resources."

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