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COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCES AND THE RURAL POOR
N.S. Jodha
INTRODUCTION
An important factor completely disregarded by development policies and programmes in India is the role of common property resources (CPRs) in the economy of rural people, particularly of the rural poor. CPRs, broadly speaking are the resources accessible to the whole community of a village and to which no individual has exclusive property right. In the dry regions of India, they include village pastures, community forests, waste lands, common threshing grounds, waste dumping places, watershed drainages, village ponds, tanks, rivers/rivulets, and riverbeds, etc.1 Despite their significant contributions to the economy of rural people, these resources have seldom received ...
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