Working towards an engagement turn to agricultural research in the Tonle Sap Biosphere, Cambodia

Figures & data

Figure 1. Timeline of main events of PAR implementation.

Figure 2. The strategic framework for CRP AAS in the Tonle Sap designed by key stakeholders.

Figure 3. (a) Location of homes in Raing Til and (b) engagement of households.

Map 1. Tonle Sap, Cambodia showing the 12 villages in the Tonle Sap lake where CRP AAS engaged.

Source: ADIC, 2014. Report from Community Visioning and Actin Plans in Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia.

Table 1. Number and percentage of participants from each wealth group that participated in the original visioning exercise

	Wealth group 1	Wealth group 2	Wealth group 3	Wealth group 4	Total*
Land-based	7 = 10%	32 = 47%	20 = 29%	9 = 13%	68
Water-based	4 = 2%	49 = 32%	56 = 36%	45 = 29%	153

^* A total of 70 participants from land based villages were involved in community visioning and 155 participants from water based villages were involved. Wealth groups of two participants from Land Based and two from Water Based village types are missing from Table 1.

Table 2. Number of participants from each wealth group during deepening and broadening phase

	Wealth group 1	Wealth group 2	Wealth group 3	Wealth group 4	*Total
Land based	25 = 12%	89 = 42%	42 = 20%	52 = 25%	208
Water based	16 = 5%	66 = 23%	103 = 36%	101 = 35%	286

^* A total of 217 participants from land based villages were involved in the deepening and broadening phase and 289 participants from water based villages were involved. The wealth group data for nine participants in land based villages was missing, and the wealth group data from three participants in water based villages was also missing.

Table

	Water based villages	Land based villages
Wealth group 1	Large scale wild fishers & fish farmers with capital equipment; hire out equipment to others; diverse income sources from paid employment; local business & trading; providing loans; children are at school and universities; large houses & this group owns property outside the village	Large rice farms and this group owns capital equipment and hires labour; they also own many water buffalo; can access loans from bank; operate money lending businesses; children go to school and universities
Wealth group 2	Medium scale fishers who own at least one boat; can access loans from banks or MFIs; provide small loans; this group includes fish processors and traders; some migrate to Malaysia; paid employment – includes civil servants, mechanics, and carpenters	Own smaller rice farms and a few cattle; non-mechanized tractors; self-sufficient in planting rice; traders specialized in fertilizers, pesticides and fuel; supplemental income through fishing, construction; children not able to attend junior school and higher grades; children migrate; many indebted to MFIs; some lend money to poorer households (Wealth group 3 & 4)
Wealth group 3	Small thatched houses; gather and sell firewood; traders; may own a fibre glass boat; hire out labour for fishing and fish processing; hire fishing gear or take out loans to purchase; small debts	Small rice farms; few capital assets; not self-sufficient – up to six months per year have income shortfalls; depend on selling labour and fishing; children and adults migrate to Thailand; indebted
Wealth group 4	Live in small huts or are homeless; no capital or access to credit; work as labourers or hired to process fish; heavily indebted; disabled adults; female headed households; children do not go to school	Small plots of land or landless; depend on fishing; sell seasonal labour in return for food; undocumented migration; heavily indebted; no access credit from MFIs; sick and disabled family members