The present paper based on three ponds, attempt to quantify contribution of Common Pool Water Resources specially in making food and livelihood security to the lives of tribal peoples of Drought Prone Bankura district, West Bengal, Eastern states of India. Side by side the paper examines the Key factors of that contribute to the sustainability of the resource base. The study finds out that small individual effort initiated properly by community member suffering from common threats of living, to design government welfare programme in creation and maintenance of productive Natural Resources, collectively involving local community, will lead to sustainable cultivation and hence food and livelihood security in drought prone areas, where opportunity of alternative livelihood is limited. The poverty traps turns into cyclical self propagating forces which raise the standard of living.
Food Security, Livelihood Security, Ponds, Sustainable Cultivation, Awareness
