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Common and private property linkages in the low-land forest fishery farming systems of Cambodia
Type: Journal Article
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 ...
The Spatial Politics of the Tonle Sap: A Multi-Scale Analysis of Conservation and Development Challenges
Type: Journal Article
Key resources of Tonle Sap Lake are fish, biodiversity and natural resources. Its governance has been casted as a central pillar in the development of Cambodia. Although there are considerable literatures and documents, ...
Rice field fisheries: a resource for Cambodia
Type: Journal Article
Small-scale fisheries in and around rice fields in the lowland areas of Cambodia are greatly underestimated and undervalued. Their contribution to the protein requirements of the poor rural households is significant. In ...
Ecological input-costs in agricultural production in northwest Kampuchea
Type: Journal Article
On-farm trials were used to evaluate the agro-economic feasibility of growing a second rice crop in Northwest Kampuchea in the dry season, and to calculate the costs and benefits of ecological inputs in agricultural ...
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic response on aquaculture farmers in five countries in the Mekong Region
Type: Journal Article
Public health measures aimed at reducing the spread of COVID-19 can have significant, unintended impacts on livelihoods. In this paper, we assess the impacts of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic on aquaculture farmers in ...
Conservation for sustaining livelihoods: Adaptive co-management of fish no-take zones in the Mekong River
Type: Journal Article
A major challenge in natural resource management in developing countries is to pursue conservation objectives while avoiding negative impacts on local livelihoods. Inland capture fisheries provide opportunities to demonstrate ...
Environmental rights as a matter of survival
Type: Journal Article
When Ning Savat laid down his arms at the end of Cambodia’s civil war, he returned to what he hoped would be a simple, peaceful life as a fisherman. What he did not know was that he was stepping into one of the country’s ...
Fish and the nutrition of rural Cambodians
Type: Journal Article
In Cambodia, fish is a central source of food for the rural poor due to its abundance and availability, and contributes greatly to national food security. In this paper, we review how fish is a staple food, provides quality ...
Analyzing drivers of fish biomass and biodiversity within community fish refuges in Cambodia
Type: Journal Article
Freshwater social-ecological systems are shaped by site-specific characteristics, environmental change and annual fluctuations, and the actions of resource users and managers. Our primary aim is to analyze the relative ...
Fish for whom?: Integrating the management of social complexities into technical investments for inclusive, multi-functional irrigation
Type: Journal Article
Irrigation represents a long-standing water sector investment in South East Asia. However, despite the undeni-able benefits of food production, an irrigation/rice-centric strategy is insufficient in a multi-dimensional ...