Eat Your Fish and Sell It, Too – Livelihood Choices of Small-Scale Fishers in Rural Cambodia
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of environmental income derived from small-scale capture fishery on household food security in Cambodia were assessed using survey data from 600 households in rural Cambodia and the results underlined the importance of fishing for food security across all income quartiles.
About: This article is published in Ecological Economics.The article was published on 2018-12-01. It has received 17 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Livelihood & Food security.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a 2-year panel dataset from rural Cambodia to seek answers to the following research questions: (i) are rural households forced to reduce their consumption due to shocks? and (ii) what are the factors affecting households' choice of shock-coping strategies in response to shocks.
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TL;DR: It is submitted that Governments in the GMS should strengthen policies that conserve the safety-net function of rural villages and conclude that country differences clearly exist due to their different stages of development.
Abstract: In this paper we submit some thoughts on the possible implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for rural people in the countries of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). We base our observations and conclusions on our long-term research experience in the region. The paper focuses on the economics of rural households during this crisis period and its aftermath. We conclude that country differences clearly exist due to their different stages of development. However, while rural households belong to the Corona risk groups, they are also resilient to such a shock. We submit that Governments in the GMS should strengthen policies that conserve the safety-net function of rural villages.
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TL;DR: AIVs have high nutritional value, forming a potent weapon against the pressing hidden hunger problem in East Africa, but they are not sufficiently adopted as cash cr... as mentioned in this paper,.
Abstract: African indigenous vegetables (AIVs) have high nutritional value, forming a potent weapon against the pressing hidden hunger problem in East Africa, but they are not sufficiently adopted as cash cr...
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...Adequate food consumption can then ensure the adequate food security status of the household (Hartje et al., 2018)....
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...Since the demand for AIVs, especially in urban markets, is increasing (Cernansky, 2015), commercial AIV production potentially generates both products produced on the farm and a cash income to buy products produced off the farm (Hartje et al., 2018)....
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...According to our conceptual framework, this food security effect can derive from the following two pathways (Hartje et al., 2018): through either a change in crop portfolio leading to the increased and extended availability of AIVs that the household eats themselves or the positive income effects…...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the relation between household food security and individual undernutrition was investigated. But, the results showed that different household-level indicators capture fundamentally different aspects of food security, and that food security fails to explain stunting for children under five.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied bilateral trade flows between fifteen RCEP members in 2010-2019 and matching indicative untapped trade potentials (ITP method) with revealed comparative (RCA method), relative trade (RTA method), and competitive (Lafay index) advantages across 210 pairs of countries.
Abstract: Fisheries has always played a vital role in supporting livelihoods and ensuring food security and sustainable economic and social development in Southeast Asia. Historically, rural and coastal communities across the region have heavily relied on the fish trade as an indispensable source of income and employment. With the establishment of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) between Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) economies and large fish traders like China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand, there is a threat for smaller countries to lose competitive advantages in the regional market. By studying bilateral trade flows between fifteen RCEP members in 2010–2019 and matching indicative untapped trade potentials (ITP method) with revealed comparative (RCA method), relative trade (RTA method), and competitive (Lafay index) advantages across 210 pairs of countries, the authors found substantial misbalances between potential values of country-to-country trade and actual advantages of RCEP economies. To optimize gains from intraregional trade for both smaller and larger RCEP members, this study identified advantageous and disadvantageous trading destinations and product categories for individual countries. The recommendations were then generalized along the four groups of economies based on their level of income, contribution to overall RCEP trade in fish, and the share of fishery products in the national trade turnover. From a practical side, the study adds to the knowledge about the fish trade in Asia by detailing how countries can better utilize individual combinations of advantages. From a methodological side, the approach can be employed widely outside the RCEP to establish a reliable picture of potential gains or losses of a particular country in trade with its counterparts across varied sets of competitive advantages.
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