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Village Ecocomplex Functioning With Common Property Resources: A Case-study on Coastal Orissa, India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Hara Prasad Sahoo  and
Malaya Kumar Misra
Malaya Kumar Misra
Affiliation:
Ecology & Floristics Laboratory, Department of Botany, Berhampur University, Berhampur 760007, Orissa, India.
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A study of the status of Common Property Resources (CPRs) in the coastal areas of Orissa, India, was made during 1989–90 to investigate privatization of land and its socio-economic implications for the rural poor.

The proportion of CPR land to the total area of the villages was 20%, and the persons per hectare of CPR land numbered 70. High density of population in these areas imparts tremendous pressure on the natural resources. The area of the CPR lands in the villages has declined by 40% since ad 1950.

The main cause of decline of CPRs is privatization. Transfer of CPR land to poor people through various social welfare programmes for their private use, and illegal occupation of the CPR land leading to subsequent legalization, were two important factors which resulted in large-scale privatization. The rural poor depend on CPRs for food, fodder, and fuel, in a variety of ways. Due to privatization, they have collectively lost a significant part of their source of livelihood in recent years.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , Spring 1994 , pp. 57 - 61
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1994

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