The Limits to Common Resource Management: The Bypassed Commons or Commons without Tragedy

Yohannes Kebede
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Yohannes Mariam

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Abstract: Land, labor, indigenous knowledge and institutional resources of producers in the Central Highlands of Ethiopia are investigated. Frequency distribution and comparative statistical analysis of the two regions with respect to these and other parameters suggest that in a situation where all producers are subjected to a common source of risk (e.g. rainfall): i) the institutional resources become less effective, and ii) combination of land, labor, knowledge and other complementary resources form the basis for adjustment mechanisms, sequential or strategic decisions, and that these decisions are directed towards maintaining the nuclear family. On the other hand, when essential resources such as land are government owned and household decisions are shared by the state, local institutions or social networks become an effective means to maintain reproduction of the farm and the producer through providing access to or sharing of resources.

Keywords: Land; labor; indigenous knowledge; institutional resources; producers; Ethiopia; risk; adjustment mechanisms; sequential or strategic decisions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C42 C44 C81 D13 D23 D71 D72 D81 D82 D83 D85 O55 Q12 Q13 Q15 Q16 Q18 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993, Revised 1993-05-01
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