Social capital, community based management, and fishers’ livelihood in Bangladesh

Islam, Gazi Md. Nurul; Yew, Tai Shzee; Abdullah, Nik Mustapha Raja; Viswanathan, K. Kuperan

doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2010.10.026

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“…We constructed four regression models with seven variables, i.e., seven types of livelihood assets, to examine their effects on the rural household income of the samples from the entire area or each of the sub-areas. The results showed that livelihood assets had a significant impact on the community income in tourist areas, which is consistent with the findings in previous non-tourism livelihood asset-related studies [45,48,52,[61][62][63][64][65] and also confirms Truong's view that "the lack of livelihood capital is an important reason for limited resident income from tourism" [42].…”

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confidence: 90%

“…Physical assets remained in the models of the entire area, the core attraction area, and the secondary service area support, and showed a significant positive impact on rural household income [61,62]. In Jiuzhaigou communities with tourism as their main livelihoods, physical assets were the basis for rural households to engage in tourism because many livelihood activities require corresponding physical assets.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Income is one of the key livelihood outcomes in the framework of sustainable livelihood [27]; income level directly reflects the level of community livelihoods, whereas livelihood assets have a significant impact on community income [45,48,52,[61][62][63][64][65]. Social assets in particular are the most crucial factor affecting residents' income increase [65].…”

Section: Effect Of Livelihood Assets On Community Incomementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, natural, social, and physical assets also contributed significantly to the income of Bangladeshi fishermen [61,62]. Good natural and financial assets have increased the income of community residents in the Northwest plains of India and reduced the poverty rate in the region [63,64].…”

Section: Effect Of Livelihood Assets On Community Incomementioning

confidence: 99%

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Study on Livelihood Assets-Based Spatial Differentiation of the Income of Natural Tourism Communities

Zhang

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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Livelihood assets have a significant impact on the livelihood options and income of tourism communities. The level of tourism development and the type of natural tourism communities often exhibit spatial differences. By using the method of sustainable livelihood and examining the main factors that affect community income from the perspective of spatial heterogeneity, it is possible to identify the livelihood assets that play the most critical role in the development of sustainable livelihoods and income generation in the community, which helps provide more reasonable advice on tourism destination management. In this article, we conducted a case study on 16 communities in and around Jiuzhaigou Nature Reserve in Sichuan Province, China, and divided the communities into three types, i.e., core attraction areas, service support areas, and secondary service support areas, according to the geographical and spatial characteristics, tourism development level, and livelihood type. The participatory assessment method was adopted to obtain in-depth interviews and questionnaire data from 256 rural households, which was utilized to construct four multivariate regression models to investigate the effect of livelihood assets on community income and the spatial difference of the factors that affect community income. The results showed that (1) livelihood assets exert a significant impact on community income in tourist areas, with a remarkable spatial difference; (2) the types of livelihoods and the effective utilization of livelihood assets have a significant impact on farmers' incomes; (3) the type and amount of livelihood assets have a certain impact on the choice of livelihood; and (4) a farmer's livelihood type determines the utilization method and the effective utilization of livelihood assets.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Effect Of Livelihood Assets On Community Incomementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Effect Of Livelihood Assets On Community Incomementioning

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Study on Livelihood Assets-Based Spatial Differentiation of the Income of Natural Tourism Communities

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“…Such relationship can play important roles in securing access and defend private as well as group natural resource property rights, and thus seclude those resources from other users (Islam et al, 2011). The CBFM fishers have had more interactions with NGO staffs, government officials, local politicians and elites during meetings and public gatherings to discuss various social issues and exchange information on various sources of credit support and income generating potentials in their localities.…”

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Property Rights and Access: the Case of Community Based Fisheries Management in Bangladesh

Islam

Yew²

2013

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The revenue oriented approach has not been able to involve poor fishers in the inland fisheries management in Bangladesh. A community-based fisheries management (CBFM-2) approach was implemented over a period of 6 years (2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006) to improve access to fishing rights of the poor and to improve productivity as well as sustainability of fisheries resources. This study investigates the changes in fisher's access to livelihoods in the various types of water bodies such as closed beels (deeper depressions in the floodplain), open beels (lake), rivers and floodplains to enhance their livelihoods. Data for the study was obtained from two questionnaire-based field surveys conducted by the Bangladesh CBFM project office: a baseline study carried out in 2002 and an impact study in mid-2006. A total of 2,826 households were randomly selected from several regions in Bangladesh, comprising 1,994 households at 34 (51%) CBFM project water bodies and 832 households at 10 (59%) control water bodies. This study found that the CBFM fishers have obtained greater access to fisheries and improved livelihoods than non-CBFM fishers. The fishers have now changed their attitudes, have greater awareness of fisheries rules and are able to resolve conflicts much easier in the CBFM water bodies. Long term access rights over fisheries resources should be considered as the priority for a sustainable inland fishery and livelihoods of fishers in Bangladesh.

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Economic impacts and nutritional outcomes of the 2017 floods in Bangladeshi Shodagor fishing families

Starkweather

Keith

Zohora

et al. 2022

American J Hum Biol

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Objectives As climate change continues to increase the frequency and severity of flooding in Bangladesh and globally, it becomes increasingly critical to understand the pathways through which flooding influences health outcomes, particularly in lower‐income and subsistence‐based communities. We aim to assess economic pathways that link flooding to nutritional outcomes among Shodagor fishing families in Bangladesh. Methods We examine longitudinal economic data on kilograms of fish caught, the income earned from those fish, and household food expenditures (as a proxy for dietary intake) from before, during, and after severe flooding in August–September of 2017 to enumerate the impacts of flooding on Shodagor economics and nutrition. We also analyze seasonally collected anthropometric data to model the effects of flooding and household food expenditures on child growth rates and changes to adult body size. Results While Shodagor fishing income declined during the 2017 flooding, food expenditures simultaneously spiked with market inflation, and rice became the predominant expenditure only during and immediately following the flood. Our nutritional models show that children and adults lost more body mass in households that spent more money on rice during the flood. Shodagor children lost an average of 0.36 BMI‐for‐age z‐scores and adults lost an average of 0.32 BMI units during the flooded 2017 rainy season, and these metrics continued to decline across subsequent seasons and did not recover by the end of the study period in 2019. Conclusions These results show major flood‐induced economic impacts that contributed to loss of child and adult body mass among Shodagor fishing families in Bangladesh. More frequent and severe flooding will exacerbate these nutritional insults, and more work is needed to effectively stabilize household nutrition throughout natural disasters and economic hardship.

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Social capital, community based management, and fishers’ livelihood in Bangladesh

Cited by 27 publications

References 8 publications

Study on Livelihood Assets-Based Spatial Differentiation of the Income of Natural Tourism Communities

Study on Livelihood Assets-Based Spatial Differentiation of the Income of Natural Tourism Communities

Property Rights and Access: the Case of Community Based Fisheries Management in Bangladesh

Economic impacts and nutritional outcomes of the 2017 floods in Bangladeshi Shodagor fishing families

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