Contribution of Common Property Resources in Human Development: A Sustainable Approach for Rural Communities

  • Manu Prakash Pathak Ph.D Research Scholar, Centre for Rural Development, Annamalai University, Annamalainagar, India
  • P Murugesan Assistant Professor & Project Director, ICSSR Sponsored Major Research Project, Centre for Rural Development, Annamalai University, Annamalainaga,Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India
Keywords: CPRs, poor people’s livelihoods, rural economics, village economies, Common Property Resources, caste groups

Abstract

The Common Property Resources refer to the resource accessible to the community of a village and to which no individual has exclusive property rights. They include village pastures, community forest, waste land, common threshing grounds, waste dumping places, watershed drainages, village ponds, tanks, rivers, bands, and river beds. The CPRs are the resources, which are collectively used by the group of people. These resources include community forests, common grazing grounds, tanks and their beds, foreshores, threshing ground, rivers and river beds, water sheds, etc. The CPRs form the main thrust of the rural economics and the absence of these resources could mean the difference between life and death to members of the rural communities. The CPRs contribute a lot to the village economies, the rural poor, particularly, survive on these resources to a greater extent (Olubukola, 1996). This is because CPRs are used on a daily basis for food, medicine, shelter and financial income. United Nations estimates indicate that up to 70 per cent of the world’s poor are female; women in developing countries constitute the majority of the labour force, playing a key role in managing community resources and helping to protect the environment.

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2018-01-20
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