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Common and Private Property Linkages for Sustainable Livelihood in Low-Land Forest-Fishery-Farming Systems of Northwest Cambodia

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dc.contributor.author Shams, Numa en_US
dc.contributor.author Ahmed, Mahfuzuddin en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:44:43Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:44:43Z
dc.date.issued 1996 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2008-07-30 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2008-07-30 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/2352
dc.description.abstract "The majority of the population of north west Cambodia is dependent on subsistence farming-foraging systems Forests, fishery and farming are the main resource-bases. The self-sustaining peasant-type households draw their food and livelihood from a combination of activities such as farming and hunting-gathering of fish, wildlife and wood materials. This system of utilisation of common and private property has evolved over centuries and has ensured two things. First, it enabled an optimum utilisation of labour within households consisting of men, women and children. Secondly, as the capacity of private property is limited, natural resources acted as a buffer and the nature of resources distribution was more equitable. In post civil war Cambodia, after several decades of social and political conflicts, the pattern of dependence on the common property resources does not appear to have changed very significantly. Recently, external forces like market, new technologies and development interventions are putting a lot of pressure on the common and private property utilisation systems. These interventions are quite large because of the post war population boom and increased commercial activities. This paper analyses the impact of some of these interventions in terms of how they will affect the balance in gender participation in household economic activities as well as the income distribution and equity. Increased pressure for exploitation of fishery and forestry resources has already created an imbalance in the traditionally established ecological economic equilibrium of common and private property resource systems. It concludes that technological interventions must maintain a balance in the resource-population relationships. There is a strong need to understand existing linkages between private and common property resources and their use in the context of development interventions in the low-land forest-fishery-farming systems." en_US
dc.subject IASC en_US
dc.subject forestry en_US
dc.subject fisheries en_US
dc.subject agriculture en_US
dc.subject rice en_US
dc.title Common and Private Property Linkages for Sustainable Livelihood in Low-Land Forest-Fishery-Farming Systems of Northwest Cambodia en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.type.published unpublished en_US
dc.coverage.region East Asia en_US
dc.coverage.country Cambodia en_US
dc.subject.sector Fisheries en_US
dc.subject.sector Forestry en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Voices from the Commons, the Sixth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates June 5-8, 1996 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Berkeley, CA en_US
dc.submitter.email efcastle@indiana.edu en_US


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