Rob Cramb
Biographic Data
| ID | 139166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rob Cramb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rob |
| FAMILY NAME | Cramb |
| SIGNATURE | CRAMB R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8520-5985 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 357 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
A differential analysis for men and women's determinants of livelihood diversification in rural rain-fed region of Pakistan: An ordered logit model (Ologit) approach
Gender responsiveness is a crucial element in achieving inclusive economic and developmental growth of an economy. A gender-differentiated analysis in determining livelihood diversification strategies is, therefore, important for developing gender sensitive policies. The study examined and presented the determinants of livelihood diversification for men and women smallholders' households in rural Pakistan. A multistage data sampling technique was…
What defines livelihood vulnerability to climate change in rain-fed, rural regions? A qualitative study of men’s and women’s vulnerability to climate change in Pakistan’s Punjab
The lives and livelihoods of rural communities are affected by climate change in Pakistan. These impacts vary between households, localities and individuals of the same household due to a diversity of livelihood strategies and differing needs. The aim of this study, therefore, was to understand how gender may highlight vulnerability to climate change through a combination of complex and interlinked factors that results in different vulnerabilitie…
White Gold: The Commercialisation of Rice Farming in the Lower Mekong Basin
This open access book is about understanding the processes involved in the transformation of the term white gold to signify a push throughout the region beyond self-sufficiency into high-value export markets. For centuries, farmers in the Lower Mekong Basin have regarded rice as white gold
Farmers’ perceptions and management of risk in rice/shrimp farming systems in South-West Coastal Bangladesh
Farmers’ perceptions and management of risk in rice-based farming systems of south-west coastal Bangladesh
Vulnerability and Response to Cyclones in Coastal Bangladesh
We explore the vulnerability to cyclones of different socio-economic groups and their individual and collective responses to cyclone-related disasters through case studies of two villages in southwest coastal Bangladesh. We take a political ecology perspective, drawing on the widely-used Pressure and Release ( PAR ) Model to structure our analysis of the physical exposure of the villages to cyclone-related hazards; the multilevel processes leadin…
The impact of swidden decline on livelihoods and ecosystem services in Southeast Asia: A review of the evidence from 1990 to 2015
Global economic change and policy interventions are driving transitions from long-fallow swidden (LFS) systems to alternative land uses in Southeast Asia's uplands. This study presents a systematic review of how these transitions impact upon livelihoods and ecosystem services in the region. Over 17 000 studies published between 1950 and 2015 were narrowed, based on relevance and quality, to 93 studies for further analysis. Our analysis of land-us…
Farmers' perceptions of and responses to environmental change in southwest coastal Bangladesh
Coastal Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to climate change and salinisation; hence, farm‐level adaptation is critically important. Farmers' perceptions of and responses to environmental change were investigated in two villages in Khulna District. Perceived environmental trends included increases in temperature, extreme weather events, soil toxicity, erratic rainfall and scarcity of water for irrigation. Perceptions of climate trends were consisten…
Exclusion and Counter-exclusion: The Struggle over Shrimp Farming in a Coastal Village in Bangladesh
This article explores the processes whereby control over land and water is exercised in the context of commercial shrimp cultivation in coastal Bangladesh. The authors draw on the insight that the exercise of control over resources implies both inclusion for some and exclusion for others, and that shifting the boundary between the two involves the deployment of four interacting 'powers of exclusion' - regulation, the market, force and legitimatio…
Alternatives to land grabbing: Exploring conditions for smallholder inclusion in agricultural commodity chains in Southeast Asia
Smallholder engagement with export commodities in Southeast Asia potentially offers a more inclusive development pathway than large-scale plantation production, which has been associated with the phenomenon of land grabs. This raises three questions which we explore in this paper: What are the agro-economic factors favouring or obstructing smallholders relative to plantations? What are the incentives for agribusiness firms to contribute to smallh…
Collective Management of Water Resources in Coastal Bangladesh: Formal and Substantive Approaches
Farming adaptation to environmental change in coastal Bangladesh: Shrimp culture versus crop diversification
Ideals and institutions: Systemic reasons for the failure of a social forestry program in south-west Bangladesh
Small-scale cattle raising in East Java, Indonesia: A pathway out of poverty
Despite its small area and intensively cropped landscape, East Java accounts for 30% of Indonesia's cattle population. About two million households draw on family labour to raise cattle in backyard sheds and small enclosures, largely for cash income. In this paper, we examine the opportunity for such small-scale producers to benefit from Indonesia's economic transformation, given the rising urban demand for beef. The paper reports on a study in t…
Rice and Remittances: Crop Intensification Versus Labour Migration in Southern Laos
The mouse deer and the crocodile: Oil palm smallholders and livelihood strategies in Sarawak, Malaysia
Oil palm and rural livelihoods in the A sia– P acific region: An overview
The expansion of oil palm cultivation in the A sia– P acific region in the past half century has engendered a major agro‐environmental transformation with significant implications for rural livelihoods. The transformation has taken different forms within and between countries, depending on local contexts, as well as involving an important transnational dimension in terms of regional flows of labour and capital, transboundary and global environmen…
Palmed Off: Incentive Problems with Joint-Venture Schemes for Oil Palm Development on Customary Land
Re-Inventing Dualism: Policy Narratives and Modes of Oil Palm Expansion in Sarawak, Malaysia
The policy narrative underpinning the current rapid expansion of large-scale, private, oil palm plantations in Sarawak, Malaysia, implies a dualistic conception of the agrarian transformation underway, such as prevailed in the 1950s. This narrative is inconsistent with the history of smallholder commercialisation in Sarawak. Post-1981 policy has sought to limit smallholder development and deliver large land areas to private estates, thus ‘re-inve…
Shifting ground: Renegotiating land rights and rural livelihoods in Sarawak, Malaysia
In this paper, we use an actor-oriented perspective to explore the nature and extent of conflict and negotiation with regard to land use and tenure among the Iban of Sarawak. The Iban are shifting cultivators who have long been involved in smallholder cash crops. We argue that the complexity of land-use change and the major shifts in land law and policy in Sarawak in recent decades, particularly those favouring the rapid expansion of oil palm pla…
Policy narratives, landholder engagement, and oil palm expansion on the Malaysian and Indonesian frontiers
Over recent decades a structural transformation has affected agriculture in the frontier areas of Malaysian Borneo and Outer Island Indonesia with the rapid conversion of agricultural lands, fallows, and formerly forested areas into oil palm. These frontiers have similar positions in the international political economy of oil palm and have complementary resource endowments. In both cases, state planners face the common challenges of finding a dis…
Swidden Change in Southeast Asia: Understanding Causes and Consequences
Swidden Transformations and Rural Livelihoods in Southeast Asia
Conservation Farming Projects in the Philippine Uplands: Rhetoric and Reality
Remoteness and rural development: Economic impacts of rural roads on upland farmers in Sarawak, Malaysia
>Although Sarawak has a rapidly growing economy, the benefits of growth have been focused largely in the urban centres. However, the majority of the population lives in rural areas, where poverty, although on the decline, prevails. Attention is given to the role of rural roads in countering remoteness and, hence, promoting more equitable development. To assess the impact of rural roads, two roads were used for comparison. One provided Iban commun…
Policy narratives, landholder engagement, and oil palm expansion on the Malaysian and Indonesian frontiers
Over recent decades a structural transformation has affected agriculture in the frontier areas of Malaysian Borneo and Outer Island Indonesia with the rapid conversion of agricultural lands, fallows, and formerly forested areas into oil palm. These frontiers have similar positions in the international political economy of oil palm and have complementary resource endowments. In both cases, state planners face the common challenges of finding a dis…
Swidden Transformations and Rural Livelihoods in Southeast Asia
Swidden Change in Southeast Asia: Understanding Causes and Consequences
Alternatives to land grabbing: Exploring conditions for smallholder inclusion in agricultural commodity chains in Southeast Asia
Smallholder engagement with export commodities in Southeast Asia potentially offers a more inclusive development pathway than large-scale plantation production, which has been associated with the phenomenon of land grabs. This raises three questions which we explore in this paper: What are the agro-economic factors favouring or obstructing smallholders relative to plantations? What are the incentives for agribusiness firms to contribute to smallh…
Oil palm and rural livelihoods in the A sia– P acific region: An overview
The expansion of oil palm cultivation in the A sia– P acific region in the past half century has engendered a major agro‐environmental transformation with significant implications for rural livelihoods. The transformation has taken different forms within and between countries, depending on local contexts, as well as involving an important transnational dimension in terms of regional flows of labour and capital, transboundary and global environmen…
Shifting ground: Renegotiating land rights and rural livelihoods in Sarawak, Malaysia
In this paper, we use an actor-oriented perspective to explore the nature and extent of conflict and negotiation with regard to land use and tenure among the Iban of Sarawak. The Iban are shifting cultivators who have long been involved in smallholder cash crops. We argue that the complexity of land-use change and the major shifts in land law and policy in Sarawak in recent decades, particularly those favouring the rapid expansion of oil palm pla…
The role of traditional institutions in rural development: Community-based land tenure and government land policy in Sarawak, Malaysia
Rice and Remittances: Crop Intensification Versus Labour Migration in Southern Laos
The mouse deer and the crocodile: Oil palm smallholders and livelihood strategies in Sarawak, Malaysia
Palmed Off: Incentive Problems with Joint-Venture Schemes for Oil Palm Development on Customary Land
Ideals and institutions: Systemic reasons for the failure of a social forestry program in south-west Bangladesh
Conservation Farming Projects in the Philippine Uplands: Rhetoric and Reality
Farmers' perceptions of and responses to environmental change in southwest coastal Bangladesh
Coastal Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to climate change and salinisation; hence, farm‐level adaptation is critically important. Farmers' perceptions of and responses to environmental change were investigated in two villages in Khulna District. Perceived environmental trends included increases in temperature, extreme weather events, soil toxicity, erratic rainfall and scarcity of water for irrigation. Perceptions of climate trends were consisten…
Remoteness and rural development: Economic impacts of rural roads on upland farmers in Sarawak, Malaysia
>Although Sarawak has a rapidly growing economy, the benefits of growth have been focused largely in the urban centres. However, the majority of the population lives in rural areas, where poverty, although on the decline, prevails. Attention is given to the role of rural roads in countering remoteness and, hence, promoting more equitable development. To assess the impact of rural roads, two roads were used for comparison. One provided Iban commun…
Explaining Variations in Bornean Land Tenure: The Iban Case
Exclusion and Counter-exclusion: The Struggle over Shrimp Farming in a Coastal Village in Bangladesh
This article explores the processes whereby control over land and water is exercised in the context of commercial shrimp cultivation in coastal Bangladesh. The authors draw on the insight that the exercise of control over resources implies both inclusion for some and exclusion for others, and that shifting the boundary between the two involves the deployment of four interacting 'powers of exclusion' - regulation, the market, force and legitimatio…
Farmers’ perceptions and management of risk in rice-based farming systems of south-west coastal Bangladesh
Vulnerability and Response to Cyclones in Coastal Bangladesh
We explore the vulnerability to cyclones of different socio-economic groups and their individual and collective responses to cyclone-related disasters through case studies of two villages in southwest coastal Bangladesh. We take a political ecology perspective, drawing on the widely-used Pressure and Release ( PAR ) Model to structure our analysis of the physical exposure of the villages to cyclone-related hazards; the multilevel processes leadin…
Small-scale cattle raising in East Java, Indonesia: A pathway out of poverty
Despite its small area and intensively cropped landscape, East Java accounts for 30% of Indonesia's cattle population. About two million households draw on family labour to raise cattle in backyard sheds and small enclosures, largely for cash income. In this paper, we examine the opportunity for such small-scale producers to benefit from Indonesia's economic transformation, given the rising urban demand for beef. The paper reports on a study in t…
Explaining Variations in Bornean Land Tenure: The Iban Case
The role of traditional institutions in rural development: Community-based land tenure and government land policy in Sarawak, Malaysia
Remoteness and rural development: Economic impacts of rural roads on upland farmers in Sarawak, Malaysia
>Although Sarawak has a rapidly growing economy, the benefits of growth have been focused largely in the urban centres. However, the majority of the population lives in rural areas, where poverty, although on the decline, prevails. Attention is given to the role of rural roads in countering remoteness and, hence, promoting more equitable development. To assess the impact of rural roads, two roads were used for comparison. One provided Iban commun…
Conservation Farming Projects in the Philippine Uplands: Rhetoric and Reality
Policy narratives, landholder engagement, and oil palm expansion on the Malaysian and Indonesian frontiers
Over recent decades a structural transformation has affected agriculture in the frontier areas of Malaysian Borneo and Outer Island Indonesia with the rapid conversion of agricultural lands, fallows, and formerly forested areas into oil palm. These frontiers have similar positions in the international political economy of oil palm and have complementary resource endowments. In both cases, state planners face the common challenges of finding a dis…
Swidden Change in Southeast Asia: Understanding Causes and Consequences
Swidden Transformations and Rural Livelihoods in Southeast Asia
Re-Inventing Dualism: Policy Narratives and Modes of Oil Palm Expansion in Sarawak, Malaysia
The policy narrative underpinning the current rapid expansion of large-scale, private, oil palm plantations in Sarawak, Malaysia, implies a dualistic conception of the agrarian transformation underway, such as prevailed in the 1950s. This narrative is inconsistent with the history of smallholder commercialisation in Sarawak. Post-1981 policy has sought to limit smallholder development and deliver large land areas to private estates, thus ‘re-inve…
Shifting ground: Renegotiating land rights and rural livelihoods in Sarawak, Malaysia
In this paper, we use an actor-oriented perspective to explore the nature and extent of conflict and negotiation with regard to land use and tenure among the Iban of Sarawak. The Iban are shifting cultivators who have long been involved in smallholder cash crops. We argue that the complexity of land-use change and the major shifts in land law and policy in Sarawak in recent decades, particularly those favouring the rapid expansion of oil palm pla…
Oil palm and rural livelihoods in the A sia– P acific region: An overview
The expansion of oil palm cultivation in the A sia– P acific region in the past half century has engendered a major agro‐environmental transformation with significant implications for rural livelihoods. The transformation has taken different forms within and between countries, depending on local contexts, as well as involving an important transnational dimension in terms of regional flows of labour and capital, transboundary and global environmen…
Palmed Off: Incentive Problems with Joint-Venture Schemes for Oil Palm Development on Customary Land
The mouse deer and the crocodile: Oil palm smallholders and livelihood strategies in Sarawak, Malaysia
Rice and Remittances: Crop Intensification Versus Labour Migration in Southern Laos
Small-scale cattle raising in East Java, Indonesia: A pathway out of poverty
Despite its small area and intensively cropped landscape, East Java accounts for 30% of Indonesia's cattle population. About two million households draw on family labour to raise cattle in backyard sheds and small enclosures, largely for cash income. In this paper, we examine the opportunity for such small-scale producers to benefit from Indonesia's economic transformation, given the rising urban demand for beef. The paper reports on a study in t…
Collective Management of Water Resources in Coastal Bangladesh: Formal and Substantive Approaches
Farming adaptation to environmental change in coastal Bangladesh: Shrimp culture versus crop diversification
Ideals and institutions: Systemic reasons for the failure of a social forestry program in south-west Bangladesh
The impact of swidden decline on livelihoods and ecosystem services in Southeast Asia: A review of the evidence from 1990 to 2015
Global economic change and policy interventions are driving transitions from long-fallow swidden (LFS) systems to alternative land uses in Southeast Asia's uplands. This study presents a systematic review of how these transitions impact upon livelihoods and ecosystem services in the region. Over 17 000 studies published between 1950 and 2015 were narrowed, based on relevance and quality, to 93 studies for further analysis. Our analysis of land-us…
Farmers' perceptions of and responses to environmental change in southwest coastal Bangladesh
Coastal Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to climate change and salinisation; hence, farm‐level adaptation is critically important. Farmers' perceptions of and responses to environmental change were investigated in two villages in Khulna District. Perceived environmental trends included increases in temperature, extreme weather events, soil toxicity, erratic rainfall and scarcity of water for irrigation. Perceptions of climate trends were consisten…
Exclusion and Counter-exclusion: The Struggle over Shrimp Farming in a Coastal Village in Bangladesh
This article explores the processes whereby control over land and water is exercised in the context of commercial shrimp cultivation in coastal Bangladesh. The authors draw on the insight that the exercise of control over resources implies both inclusion for some and exclusion for others, and that shifting the boundary between the two involves the deployment of four interacting 'powers of exclusion' - regulation, the market, force and legitimatio…
Alternatives to land grabbing: Exploring conditions for smallholder inclusion in agricultural commodity chains in Southeast Asia
Smallholder engagement with export commodities in Southeast Asia potentially offers a more inclusive development pathway than large-scale plantation production, which has been associated with the phenomenon of land grabs. This raises three questions which we explore in this paper: What are the agro-economic factors favouring or obstructing smallholders relative to plantations? What are the incentives for agribusiness firms to contribute to smallh…
Vulnerability and Response to Cyclones in Coastal Bangladesh
We explore the vulnerability to cyclones of different socio-economic groups and their individual and collective responses to cyclone-related disasters through case studies of two villages in southwest coastal Bangladesh. We take a political ecology perspective, drawing on the widely-used Pressure and Release ( PAR ) Model to structure our analysis of the physical exposure of the villages to cyclone-related hazards; the multilevel processes leadin…
Farmers’ perceptions and management of risk in rice-based farming systems of south-west coastal Bangladesh
White Gold: The Commercialisation of Rice Farming in the Lower Mekong Basin
This open access book is about understanding the processes involved in the transformation of the term white gold to signify a push throughout the region beyond self-sufficiency into high-value export markets. For centuries, farmers in the Lower Mekong Basin have regarded rice as white gold
Farmers’ perceptions and management of risk in rice/shrimp farming systems in South-West Coastal Bangladesh
Geography (24 works) · Economics (23 works) · Agriculture (21 works) · Business (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Agroforestry (10 works) · Livelihood (10 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (9 works) · Agricultural economics (8 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (8 works)