Natural resources management for human security in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Biosphere Reserve

Bonheur, Neou; Lane, Benjamin

doi:10.1016/s1462-9011(02)00024-2

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“…Similarly, fisher prepared fish to barter fish for rice. They met once a year at Kampong (landing area near to the river) to exchange their produces, especially fish and rice [23,24]. This is a 'rice-fish economy' of communities in the Tonle Sap Lake.…”

Section: The Land-based Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…At the same time, Cambodia is a fish-eating country-people catch fish, process fish and consume fish. Fish is consumed with rice, and it is consumed freshly or processing; and rice and fish is a popular food for majority of Cambodians [23,24].…”

Section: Rice-fish Economy Of Community In Tonle Sapmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The main trading commodity of fishing community is "fish" and farming community is "rice" [23]. Rice and fish is exchanged since immemorial times in the Lake, and it has shaped the culture and practices of rice-fish economy in the Khmer Society [25].…”

Section: Rice-fish Economy Of Community In Tonle Sapmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…"Neak leu" is primarily engaged in farming as a "primary occupation" in which rice is cultivated as a main food element, but fish is supplemented through rice-fish bartering. "Neak tonle" is primarily engaged in fishing as a "primary occupation", and fish is not the only main food item, but they also need "rice" [23,24,26].…”

Section: Rice-fish Economy Of Community In Tonle Sapmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such migration of Khmer farmers searching for "prohok" happened since the Angkor Empire. Baradat [23] described amazing facts about how Khmer farmers traditionally travelled from home villages in the direction to Tonle Sap Lake searching for "prohok". In 1926, there was 280 Oxcarts of Khmer communities living in Thailand travelled across the political boundary to the Tonle Sap Lake to make "prohok" for their food, and before 1907 when Battambang was still annexed to Thailand, Mr. Baradat counted 4,000 to 10,000 Khmer Oxcarts from Siam (Thai of Khmer origin) moving from Battambang and Surin provinces to the Tonle Sap Lake for "prohok".…”

Section: Rice-fish Economy Of Community In Tonle Sapmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Political Economy of Fishing Villages: A Case Study in the Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia

Sithirith¹

2016

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Abstract:The Tonle Sap Lake is home to three types of communities: land-based, water-based and land-water based communities, whose livelihoods are dependent on Lake's resources. This paper examines how fishing communities in the Tonle Sap Lake make their living in the context of declined resources, increased competition between fishers, the resources politics and the increased trades around the Lake. The paper concludes that in the old day, communities around the lake were related to one another through bartering rice and fish. However, at present, as resources declining, these communities compete over resources, and in doing so, they build relationship and connection with powerful elites including officials, fish traders and the fishing operators, who could protect them in fishing. As a consequence, fishers are trapped in the webs of vicious cycle of poverty, conflicts, corruption and patronage system and exploited and sucked in these webs.

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Section: The Land-based Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Rice-fish Economy Of Community In Tonle Sapmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Rice-fish Economy Of Community In Tonle Sapmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Rice-fish Economy Of Community In Tonle Sapmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Rice-fish Economy Of Community In Tonle Sapmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Political Economy of Fishing Villages: A Case Study in the Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia

Sithirith¹

2016

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Seasonal increases in fish trophic niche plasticity within a flood‐pulse river ecosystem (Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia)

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Abstract. Species' responses to seasonal environmental variation can influence trophic interactions and food web structure within an ecosystem. However, our ability to predict how species' interactions will vary spatially and temporally in response to seasonal variation unfortunately remains inadequate within most ecosystems. Fish assemblages in the Tonle Sap Lake (TSL) of Cambodia-a dynamic flood-pulse ecosystem -were studied for five years (2010-2014) using stable isotope and Bayesian statistical approaches to explore both within-and among-species isotopic niche variation associated with seasonal flooding. Roughly 600 individual fish specimens were collected during 19 sampling events within the lake. We found that fishes within the same species tended to have a broader isotopic niche during the wet season, likely reflecting assimilation of resources from either a wider range of isotopically distinct prey items or a variety of habitats, or both. Furthermore, among-species isotopic niches tended to overlap and range more broadly during the wet season, suggesting that floodplain inundation promotes exploitation of more diverse and similar resources by different species in the fish community. Our study highlights that the flood-pulse dynamic that is typical of tropical aquatic ecosystems may be an essential element supporting freshwater fish community structure and the fish diversity that underpins the TSL food web. This flow regime is currently threatened by regional dam development, which may in turn impact the natural function and structure of the fishery food web.

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Watershed-Based Management for Sustainable Freshwater Resources

Schneider¹

2021

Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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Natural resources management for human security in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Biosphere Reserve

Cited by 89 publications

References 4 publications

Political Economy of Fishing Villages: A Case Study in the Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia

Political Economy of Fishing Villages: A Case Study in the Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia

Seasonal increases in fish trophic niche plasticity within a flood‐pulse river ecosystem (Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia)

Watershed-Based Management for Sustainable Freshwater Resources

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