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Shrimp Aquaculture and Changing Local Institutions: Implications for Local Livelihoods

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dc.contributor.author Anh, Vu Hong en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:40:37Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:40:37Z
dc.date.issued 2006 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2006-09-25 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2006-09-25 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1906
dc.description.abstract "The shift to shrimp aquaculture, in particular the recent boost for industrial shrimp farming, following Vietnam's adoption of a market based economy in 1986, have significantly altered the roles and functions of local institutions. This paper concerns the effects of institutional changes to facilitate the expansion of shrimp aquaculture since early 1990s have had on local livelihoods in Duyen Hai district of Tra Vinh province, Vietnam's Mekong Delta. It documents the changes in the use and access to land and water, and other services as industrial shrimp farming, supported by policy to encourage 'the farm economy' (a euphemism for large farms) is embraced and the implications that this has for sustainable livelihoods in a coastal community in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. The policy-level support for industrial shrimp farming and institutional changes thereof have happened after shrimp aquaculture has caused a high level of indebtedness among many farming households in the Mekong Delta over the past decade. The paper concludes that recent institutional changes designed to promote industrial shrimp farming, namely the privatization of land and favorable services, has significantly transformed local resource rights regimes, and limited household's access to such resources. The loss of common property resources, coupled with the lack of support from local social institutions, has increased the vulnerability of poorer farming households and intensified the process of social stratification." en_US
dc.subject IASC en_US
dc.subject shrimp en_US
dc.subject institutional change en_US
dc.subject aquaculture en_US
dc.subject fisheries en_US
dc.subject common pool resources en_US
dc.title Shrimp Aquaculture and Changing Local Institutions: Implications for Local Livelihoods en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.coverage.region East Asia en_US
dc.coverage.country Vietnam en_US
dc.subject.sector Fisheries en_US
dc.subject.sector Social Organization en_US
dc.identifier.citationmonth June en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Survival of the Commons: Mounting Challenges and New Realities, the Eleventh Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates June 19-23, 2006 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Bali, Indonesia en_US
dc.submitter.email elsa_jin@yahoo.com en_US


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