How Himalayan Dwellers Rely on Common-Pool Resources (CPRs) for Livelihood? Mustang, Trans-Himalayan Nepal

Dr. Dilli Prasad Poudel

How Himalayan Dwellers Rely on Common-Pool Resources (CPRs) for Livelihood? Mustang, Trans-Himalayan Nepal

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How Himalayan Dwellers Rely on Common-Pool Resources (CPRs) for Livelihood? Mustang, Trans-Himalayan Nepal

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This article focuses on how a mountain community in Mustang of Trans-Himalayan Region of North-Western Nepal relies on availability of and accessibility to Common-Pool Resources (CPRs), such as forest water and pastureland for making a living. Most of the villagers’ livelihoods earning sources directly or indirectly rely on the agricultural productions and the livestock rearing, which are not possible without extracting resources from CPRs. Analyzing through qualitative epistemological perspective of CPRs theories, required information has been collected during April -June 2007 and during October -November 2008. Household survey, Key Informant Interview, and Observation were the main techniques for data collection. It is impossible to produce crops in Mustang in such climatic (semi-arid) and geographic condition without using CPRs. Likewise, being an unavoidable component of livelihood pursuits, and to support the agriculture activities of the villagers, livestock also relies on the availability of and the accessibility to pastureland, fodder and water. Moreover, both activities also depend on each other. Some villagers’ main source of cash income is from selling firewood, fodder and grass, which definitely need an access to the CPRs. Because of such necessity of CPRs for livelihood, villagers have well developed local institution to distribute the resources equitably since the historic past.

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Dr. Dilli Prasad Poudel. 1970. "How Himalayan Dwellers Rely on Common-Pool Resources (CPRs) for Livelihood? Mustang, Trans-Himalayan Nepal". Global Journal of Human-Social Science - C: Sociology & Culture GJHSS-C Volume 11 (GJHSS Volume 11 Issue C3).

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Submission ReceivedFebruary 13, 2011
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Subject: Global Journal of Human-Social Science

Authors: Dr. Dilli Prasad Poudel, Tor Halfdan Aase (PhD/Dr. count: 1)

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