Real life on poverty from access to natural resources

Real life on poverty from access to natural resources 

Natural resource is an importance aspect for all people in the world. It gives people  power to use in everyday life such as electricity, engine and especally it is very importance for making food like fishing or farming. People can servive of fishing along the lake or river and use land to grow vegatable. That the good thing that natural resource brings to human; but what happen if all those resource have gone? How people can servive without the natural resouces? In the case in Cambodia, decades of war and internal conflict have left it one of the world's poorest countries. The legacy of strife includes social and economic scars. Many millions of land mines were sowed throughout the countryside, where millions of them still lie, hidden and unexploded. Mines are an enduring menace to the eight out of ten Cambodians who live in rural areas, and they are an obstacle to agricultural development. Cambodia's poor people number almost 4.8 million, and 90 per cent of them are in rural areas. Most of them depend on agriculture for their livelihood, but at least 12 per cent of poor people are landless. Small-scale farmers practice agriculture at the subsistence level, using traditional methods. Productivity is low. Two thirds of the country's 1.6 million rural households face seasonal food shortages each year. Rice alone accounts for as much as 30 per cent of household expenditures. Rural people are constantly looking for work or other income-generating activities, which are mainly temporary and poorly paid. Landlessness is one of the causes of a strong trend of internal migration that is also driven by the pressures of rapid population growth and the desire to evade from recurring flood and drought in lowland areas. People are moving from the more densely populated provinces in the south and west to the more sparsely populated provinces in the north-east, which include some of the country's poorest districts. However, if we look back to the people who live along Beong Tunle Sarp, fishing is an important resource for thousands of years.

It is also an important source of animal protein, especially for most people living around the lake. Nevertheless the forests along the lake are under high pressure because of illegal cutting of firewood which merchants export to the other countries. When it loses its forest the fish and the whole ecosystem can be destroyed. Then there will be no fish for the fishers to earn money any more. Beside illegal cutting, as the population is growing more and more, the demanding of food also increase from day to day. Thus, people need more fish and more food. Consequencely, the natural resource decrease very quickly. When it come out of natural resources, people who live along the lake may find it hard to survive since there is less fish for them to do fishing and no good land for them to do farming. One big problem fishers have around the lake was

middlemen who have captured the whole market. Alot of money is got from the fish sale but the

fishermen still remain poor. At times the fishermen are forced to sell their fish at a throw away prices because they can’t store it for a long period. Therefore, poverty occurs for people who live along the lake. When they are poor, they do not focus much on health and living habit. And that may cause the infectious disease that can kill people who live around that area. In addition, poverty of people along the lake gives the really bad effect to the surrounding area. This means that it effects to the environment there because when they are poor they do not have money to build a good house or think about their health. They may pollute the air and especially water. For example, people who live along Tunle Sarp do not have proper toilet and they may build toilet on the water because they do not have money to build a good house and proper toilet. Beside the health, people there may not have high education. They don’t have money for their children to go to school and capital to do any other job besides fishing.

In short, natural resources are really important for all human kind especially for those who fully depend on it. They will cannot survive if there is no resources for them. In our case, we took a really example of people who live along Tunle Sarp Lake. When there is no fish for them to fish in the result of illegal cutting the water forest, when the whole ecosystem was destroyed then all fish have gone, no money for them to buy food. Therefore, we human kind must help each other in order to save the natural resources and the people who fully need it then we all can live in a better life.