The livelihood strategies and use of natural resources among the ibans in rumah bangkit Rembai, Spaoh, Betong, Sarawak
This study is conducted to investigate the livelihood strategies and use of natural resources among the Ibans in Rumah Bangkit Rembai, Spaoh, Betong. It focuses on the five livelihood assets namely human, social, natural, physical, and financial capitals including the use of land, wildlife, and f...
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| Language: | English |
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2015
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9339/2/Yvonne%28fulltext%29.pdf |
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| Summary: | This study is conducted to investigate the livelihood strategies and use of natural
resources among the Ibans in Rumah Bangkit Rembai, Spaoh, Betong. It focuses on
the five livelihood assets namely human, social, natural, physical, and financial
capitals including the use of land, wildlife, and forest as their livelihood strategies.
Specifically, this study aims to ascertain the five livelihood assets in Rumah Bangkit
Rembai; to investigate the main economic activities of the community in Rumah
Bangkit Rembai; to analyse the natural resources used by the community in Rumah
Bangkit Rembai as means of their livelihood strategies; and to investigate in what way
the longhouse dwellers in Rumah Bangkit Rembai utilise the natural resources as their
livelihood strategies. Data and information are collected by using interview schedules,
focus groups interviews, and Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) method. The
Statistical Package for Social Sciences Version 20 (SPSS Statistics v20) for Windows
is used to analyse the data collected via interview schedules and is participated by 30
respondents. From this study, it proves that this Iban community conducts various
types of activities in order to sustain their livelihoods. All the five livelihood assets are
present in this village and these assets provided a lot of impacts to the livelihoods of
this community. Agricultural activities such as cultivating cash and subsistence crops
including rearing livestock either for commercial or subsistence farming are their
primary economic activities. In addition, the women collect jungle produces such as
wild vegetables and fruits as their secondary sources of food supply and income.
Today, hunting for wildlife is considered to be an occasional activity to the older adults
in this village but an uncommon activity for the younger generations. However, the
concept of bejalai within this community is still very active. In order to increase their
standards of living, some longhouse dwellers migrated to the urban centres to obtain
better education and employments. Therefore, the livelihood strategies of this
community is very much affected by their surrounding environment. However, due to
modernisation, the younger generations realise that they can improve their current
livelihoods by venturing into non-agricultural activities. |
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