Coping with crisis - smoke, drought, flood and currency: Iban women and their households in West Kalimantan
In recent years, rural households throughout Indonesia have faced a variety of crises, including severe drought, smoke from forest fires, and floods - all of which have affected subsistence farming. Simultaneous with these problems has been the wider Asian economic crisis that destabilized Indonesia...
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| author | Wadley, R.L. |
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| description | In recent years, rural households throughout Indonesia have faced a variety of crises, including severe drought, smoke from forest fires, and floods - all of which have affected subsistence farming. Simultaneous with these problems has been the wider Asian economic crisis that destabilized Indonesia both economically and politically. For rural people, it has affected cash-earning opportunities and prices of basic goods. Focusing on the Iban of West Kalimantan, this paper explores the impacts these various crises have had on Iban farming and wage labor, and how the Iban have coped. It touches on the successful strategies from the past as well as recent local developments that have appeared to cushion the continuing economic uncertainty. This paper contributes to the growing literature on the impact of climatic fluctuation and economic change on the livelihoods of local people in Southeast Asia and other parts of the Third World. |
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| spelling | CGSpace182422025-01-24T14:21:00Z Coping with crisis - smoke, drought, flood and currency: Iban women and their households in West Kalimantan Wadley, R.L. rural communities ethnic groups crises economic crises households women farming labour gender In recent years, rural households throughout Indonesia have faced a variety of crises, including severe drought, smoke from forest fires, and floods - all of which have affected subsistence farming. Simultaneous with these problems has been the wider Asian economic crisis that destabilized Indonesia both economically and politically. For rural people, it has affected cash-earning opportunities and prices of basic goods. Focusing on the Iban of West Kalimantan, this paper explores the impacts these various crises have had on Iban farming and wage labor, and how the Iban have coped. It touches on the successful strategies from the past as well as recent local developments that have appeared to cushion the continuing economic uncertainty. This paper contributes to the growing literature on the impact of climatic fluctuation and economic change on the livelihoods of local people in Southeast Asia and other parts of the Third World. 2002 2012-06-04T09:06:14Z 2012-06-04T09:06:14Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/18242 en Wadley, R.L. 2002. Coping with crisis - smoke, drought, flood and currency: Iban women and their households in West Kalimantan . Culture and Agriculture 24 (1) :26-33. |
| spellingShingle | rural communities ethnic groups crises economic crises households women farming labour gender Wadley, R.L. Coping with crisis - smoke, drought, flood and currency: Iban women and their households in West Kalimantan |
| title | Coping with crisis - smoke, drought, flood and currency: Iban women and their households in West Kalimantan |
| title_full | Coping with crisis - smoke, drought, flood and currency: Iban women and their households in West Kalimantan |
| title_fullStr | Coping with crisis - smoke, drought, flood and currency: Iban women and their households in West Kalimantan |
| title_full_unstemmed | Coping with crisis - smoke, drought, flood and currency: Iban women and their households in West Kalimantan |
| title_short | Coping with crisis - smoke, drought, flood and currency: Iban women and their households in West Kalimantan |
| title_sort | coping with crisis smoke drought flood and currency iban women and their households in west kalimantan |
| topic | rural communities ethnic groups crises economic crises households women farming labour gender |
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